Oct 22

Life Of Agony’s Keith Caputo Talks More About Being A Chick

Posted by Chris Harris on October 22, 2011 in News, Sarcasm

Keith Caputo

The Advocate has interviewed transgendered singer Mina Caputo, who we all used to know as Keith Caputo, about life in a band like Life of Agony, now that he’s come out as a chick.

The interview covers a wide spectrum of topics, including how Keith felt as a kid (“When I was like 8 or 9 years old I started cross dressing. I used to go through my aunt’s drawers when nobody was home and I used to steal her lingerie”), and how he used to think he was gay and experimented with dudes.

“I really didn’t even know the word transgender back then,” he says. “I just though, ‘OK I’m a transvestite’ or ‘I’m a gay male but I love presenting myself as a woman.’”

In addition, Keith says that being in Life of Agony kept him from expressing his true self.

“I was very boxed in that metal thing. The first album I’ve ever done was released and then it pretty much exploded in Europe and I kind of had no choice but to leave school. I didn’t want to sing in a band. That wasn’t really what I set out to do. I wanted to go to Julliard. I wanted to play the classics, get good grades…and I pictured myself living more of a feminine life then at 19 when this whole alpha male world just pretty much took over,” she said.

“I was in hell for years…It was more of a sense of responsibility and not getting labels down… the management, the band, and the fans. And I mean, we were a really, really really, really big band. We were doing concerts in Europe where 60 to 100 thousand people were showing up.”

He also said he doesn’t plan on cutting his junk off. Can you really be a woman and still have a penis? Honestly, folks. Maybe in mind, yes — but if you’re getting down with someone who thinks you are a woman, when they meet that penis they are not going to feel the same way. They are going to think they’re with a dude.

I say what’s good enough for Chaz Bono is good enough for Miss Mina.

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Chris Harris is an internationally-published music journalist and writer whose work has appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone, IFC.com, Revolver, Alternative Press, and Radar. The former news editor for Noisecreep.com, AOL’s heavy metal blog, Harris also served as co-host for the site’s weekly podcast, “Creep Show." Harris spent four years as a reporter and on-air talent for MTV News.

  • Ben Ohh

    very ignorant. the author needs to educate himself on transgender issues.

    • Anonymous

      This is a jokey site, ben

  • Jessie Pepper

    Just FYI, Mina is female so the correct pronoun would be ‘she’. And yes, you can be a woman with a penis. Do some research. Geez, jokey site or no, that was kinda lame…

  • Spider Girl

    Chris Harris, You seem ignorant, you’re article makes you seem even more so, I suggest you go read a book next time you think about writing an article on something you obviously have no idea about, the least you could do is follow proper ettiquite, get the pronouns right,caption you’re pictures correctly, and where the hell do you get off talking about her position on surgery? when you wrote your other articles I notice you didn’t comment on anyone elses “junk”.
    dissapointing, even for if this is a jokey site, you are perpetuating a negative image of transgender individuals, which serves only to marginalize an already suffering group of people, you had the information here to write an empowering article here, reaching out to people and telling them that you can have a career, you can be different, and you can have a life, instead you chose to poke fun at them and write a pathetic article, you sir are a bigot and an idiot, I hope you don’t get the chance to breed,

  • James Lemur

    Good subject matter, lame presentation. Thanks for trying. (p.s. women with penises are awesome.)

  • Woman with a Dick

    As a woman with a penis, I can say this article is highly offensive. Even the title of the article is ignorant. Here would be the proper title for article. “Life Of Agony’s Mina Caputo Talks More About Being A Chick” Always refer to her as “her”  and “she” using only female pronouns. Gosh where have you been for the last half century? It’s not 1965 any more. You can quit hating hippies now too, times have changed. And this woman with a penis wants to ask you a favor. Could you please stop spreading ignorance, hate and transphobic propaganda. Imagine if it happened to you, Your sister (brother) or someone close to you. How would you feel then. Yes women can have can have any combination of genitals, cock, pussy and both. 1 in every 500 people born are intersex and 1 in every 1000 births is transgender. Some people are even born with ambiguous genitals. Gender is not cut and dry, they only told you there were genders because they figured small brains couldn’t handle or understand more than two. Better keep it simple for them. Re-quoting an earlier comment “Even for if this is a jokey site, you are perpetuating a negative image of transgender individuals, which serves only to marginalize an already suffering group of people…”

    • Luke Chaston

      You seem like an intelligent person, but really, if someone saw that username wouldn’t there first reaction be you were taking the piss as well?