Oh my lord this is interesting. It starts out like you’d expect - more PC generation wars, this time in a punk context, and then you visit the callout/boycott site they mention, @boycott924gilmanstreet, and even when you read the callout post it starts out like you expect like

- this place books bands with lyrics that valorize rape culture and don’t support our mission of providing a safer space

- and they didn’t really care about bathrooms and trans-frendliness

and then it takes a jag and for a while it’s like

- AND THOSE FUCKERS BOOKED GREEN DAY, THE MAJOR LABEL SELLOUTS!

and fucking record scratch and that is ~*~AMAZING~*~

not least because it’s the first attempt I’ve seen by censorious-liberationist forces to lay their own claim to legitimacy as heirs of the ‘90s. And it’s not a bad one!

also, also, “forced fingerbanging”. That’s this amazing wreck of a phrase that’s a synecdoche of this whole generation gap, the “forced” starting out in the modern harm/consent idiom but then realizing midair that no one’s going to go for what, the clinico-punitive “digital penetration”? and they’ll have to use the earthy Dirt Punk “fingerbang”