https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/07/eagles-of-death-metal-and-offspring-members-defend-dickies-frontmans-misogynistic-rant/
Hey, you know I bet the line “we’d love to go down on each and every
one of you but we just don’t have the time” went over better when
Leonard Graves Phillips, a sixty-year-old man now, was in his twenties
shouting at a crowd of teens than it does now that he’s in his 60s and
shouting at a crowd of teens.
Especially since that crowd of teens
is at Warped Tour, an annual slog that has been plagued with predatory
band members who have on multiple occasions been accused of sexually
assaulting minors (That is NOT the case with the Dickies and I don’t
mean to imply it, but there have been main acts on Warped Tour where one
or more members has been accused of sexual assault by a minor).
So
I totally get why Safer Spaces is there and why someone would feel the
need to hold up a sign pointing out how gross that kind of statement is
in that kind of context.
But I’m so friggin frustrated by the
discourse hole that this kind of debate has become because it always
comes down to “punk is about pushing boundaries, it’s about being edgy,
it’s about shaking up the status quo!”
And I always just have to ask: is there anything *more* status quo than calling a woman who’s making you angry a cunt?
Wow. Yes. Very Edgy. You are a serious punk rock man who called a woman ugly because she said your sthick is kinda icky.
Just,
like, as a sidenote though, one of the reasons I’m not going back to
the Monster Energy Festival (the last place I saw EoDM) is because I was
forcibly sexually assaulted in a crowd there.
So, Jesse Hughes,
as a fan of metal and punk who was sexually assaulted at a festival you
played, let me just say that it makes me feel really fantastic that
you’re fighting these enemies of free speech whose goal is to make it
easier for women to attend festivals without the fear of being sexually
assaulted.
FEELS GREAT, MAN. GLAD TO KNOW YOU’VE GOT MY BACK.
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