Metal needs to be a safe space.
If metal doesn’t change to reflect its more diverse audience, it could vanquish itself into irrelevancy. Do you really think excluding traditionally marginalized people will further metal as a sustainable art? No. Keep excluding and it will be a dead genre in 50 years.
http://www.houstonpress.com/music/metals-problem-with-women-is-not-going-away-anytime-soon-7858411 