Last weekend I was reading a New York Times piece on some punk rock fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was kind of annoying. Only that Legs McNeil guy called bullshit on the fashion world co-opting punk rock fashions.

Not really related in any way, yesterday NBA veteran Jason Collins came out of the closet, breaking a sports social barrier as the first active (if unsigned) professional male player in one of America’s 4 major sports to identify himself as gay. Some compared his act to Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in professional sports. I simply say, Bravo!

These 2 stories got me thinking for a second: Are there any social barriers yet to be broken in rock ‘n roll?