Opinion: Love Techno, Hate Sexism!
...but does it love me? I went to an underground techno party a while back. There were a lot of guys there. Guys playing great music, guys working on the door, guys hanging out by the decks and bar and even guys dancing. I wanted to dance too, but I had a problem focusing on the music because I was distracted by the dance floor's only decoration: an inflatable sex doll hanging by her neck with her wrists tied behind her back. At the majority of underground techno parties I've been to, decor was of the bring-your-own variety; whatever was there represented the views of people in the crowd. After a few tracks, I decided that I didn't like the view represented by whoever had brought this inflatable murder victim. Their view seemed to be, “Violence against women is a sort-of sexy joke”. Maybe a very angry man would agree that it is, but most women would not. They would tell you that a cloud of potential violence already hangs ...