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RE: that discussion about reynolds and brostep we were having a few pages back, from 2009:- "The handwringing dismay of the cognoscenti has a curiously déjà vu quality. Dubstep, six years into its existence, has become a hardcore, headstrong, having-it scene, with a following of punters and...

I'm not sure this is what you're saying - I can't work it out - but just in case, we're not suggesting that Mary Whitehouse was a famous feminist right? Famous dickhead is what she was

surely there's a middle ground between surreal alien bukkake and Mary Whitehouse.

ha amazing. That just about sums it up really doesn't it

Ah, he does basically anticipate all the things I said above, fair play. Sounds like a man who just plain old doesn't know and is hedging his bets.

Yeah I'm sure he's said this in passing on his blog. A mate of mine made the very fine point that if Reynolds had been going to clubs in the last 5 years instead of criticising them from afar, he would have seen that the dubstep->brostep shift had much more in common with the steady...

If you are genuinely curious, just read some books on feminism and the way patriarchy functions. I can't recommend any particular ones off the top of my head but there are plenty out there.

Really interesting article, thanks. I agree with it on the main, though from a stylistic point of view I love the mixing of vernacular and ridiculously abstruse vocab. Just as long as it's not an enemy to clarity I guess.

Perhaps not the best choice of word - what I meant was that properly E-d up clubs don't have an overtly sexual social dynamic...rather than that everybody forgets about it altogether. when everybody's high they don't give a shit about that. That's been my experience in the odd club where...

I can think of shitloads

mate. Aside from feminism obviously being a huge multifaceted movement which means many different things to different people. The whole 'feminism is just as bad' argument is exactly the sentiment of Scuba's original tweet. If what you're saying is 'I agree with Scuba' then maybe give the...

also you're on shaky ground with the class thing given that rave was a largely working class phenomenon

what kind of mass communication now isn't mediated through the internet? You want me to go to the library and get out some books?

Thanks Simon, you said it more succinctly that I was going to. If people think it's an overreaction, fine - although I don't, obviously. I think it's better that people are acutely aware of the issue before it's a massive thing rather than after. I can see why you might think the proof in the...

I tried not to be preachy but you can't please everyone eh. He was pretty unrepentant and rude when Ben UFO originally pulled him up on it so I'd say not.

cheers for posting this e/y. glad you thought it was relevant. that headphone boobs picture was a candidate for the header image...it's been pissing me off for months. I think the 'artistic' angle is too often just a lazy excuse though, it's this Vice/American Apparel approach to what is...

that's totally off topic isn't it, sorry.

Blackdown supplies the goods as usual http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2011/11/nu-era.html Interestingly I would take basically the opposite stance to you on this. It's increasingly difficult to defend the role of critic-as-filter, making value judgements on other people's behalf. That...

Unfortunately I am a journalist so I have to at least give the appearance that we have a meaningful contribution to make :)

yeah fair enough. I think maybe journos/bloggers/music geeks are just looking in the wrong places these days? harder to get an 'overview' of creative activity when there are a million different places to post tunes online.