Pickering dropped that nugget when he was on the How to DJ podcast…his book sounds great btw.
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I’m about halfway through, it’s a really good read so far
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30 years of Paper Recordings. DJ friends of the label pick their favourite records, some good tales from the early days
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Not any particular article, but the general normalisation of misogyny and the intentional undermining of Women, and their right to Be. Largely driven by the Right, along with their blatant hypocrisy of outrage at the victims of abuse committed by some ethnic groups whilst remaining silent (at best) at the depressingly constant epidemic of male-perpetrated violence against women. The brutal murder of Sarah Everard and the reaction to it (including the shocking Public Order Act 2023) were a huge shift that didn’t get anywhere near the widespread anger it should have. One of many societal shifts that.
Sadly many on the the Left have shown they are part of the problem. Victims of sexual violence are not legitimate if they don’t conform to the who passes the test of victimhood. The end result, women who are victims of sexual/violent abuse are still ignored. My ex was sexually abused by her PhD supervisor, a well renowned department head at one of Edinburgh’s biggest Universities, someone who ticked every progressive box on paper - specialising in cultural theory, anti-colonialism, patriarchy, Western exceptionalism, Anthropocentrism…
The recent shocking cases in Hampshire of the non custodial sentences of the boys convicted of violent rape is a case in point - lots of outrage for political goals with zero debate on how to tackle the causes, and safeguard women.
The role, and the lack of accountability, of social media in all of this will of course change little.
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