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Johnny C:
This upcoming weekend Saskatchewan is once again playing unfortunate space marine host/victim to the face-fucking egg-laying alien spider bastard of a festival that is the Craven Country Jamboree. On top of the awful music which I concede that people are allowed to listen to is the disgusting trash culture that surrounds it, especially because it leads to violence against women. Observe:


--- Quote ---There was a small number of serious incidents reported: five assaults, two assaults with a weapon, four sexual assaults, seven thefts and one break and enter.
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Couple that with this tidbit from Statistics Canada:


--- Quote ---Thirty-six percent of female victims of spousal violence and less than 10% of victims of sexual assault reported these crimes to the police in 2004.
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That's ten percent in normal cases - the Jamboree is soaked in alcohol and has this really disquieting attitude of objectification towards women. Many dudes go simply because it means they'll probably score. I point this out to people and they accuse me of spoiling their fun. Frankly, I don't give a shit. I don't go and will never go because it will mean endorsing that kind of culture.

This thread is about pointing stuff like that out. Try and make it legit.

KharBevNor:
So a pop-country festival is a misogynistic boozefest?

No shit.

I'm not quite sure of the specific aim of this thread (get a blog?) but keeping to music festivals, I recently intended the Isle of Wight Festival, and I was very glad my ticket was free. It was the evil, sadistic face of commercialised rock, charging me 3 quid for a cardboard mug of slightly warm Carling and a fiver for a petrol-flavoured hot dog. There were security guards in fucking towers. It was just about the most obvious no fun zone I have ever seen: whenever something that felt like you were actually at a festival happened, a topless dude in a top hat dancing on top of an ice cream truck say, roughly thirty nine burly men would instantly arrive to haul the perpetrator away to who knows what grisly fate. You were not allowed to have fires or barbecues. Carling had a complete alcohol monopoly. There were drug sniffer dogs. I saw a dude get arrested for smoking pot. Crowdsurfing was banned. Most everyone there was not just an arsehole, but a genuine, dyed in the wool, balls to the walls cunt.

Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols were alright though. Most of the line-up was soul-sucking shite however. The whole situation bought me in mind of Bill Hicks. "Sucking Satans pecker...suck it!"   

NarwhalSunshine:
There are gonna be a couple good acts however I can see them in Nashville without the violence against women

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 09 Jul 2008, 23:43 ---Sex Pistols were alright

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I don't see how that's possible, I would say they are without a doubt the worst thing to happen to punk right after the Casualties.

Trollstormur:

--- Quote ---There was a small number of serious incidents reported: five assaults, two assaults with a weapon, four sexual assaults, seven thefts and one break and enter.
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interesting that you highlight the sexual assaults. these are generally not life endangering when compared to weapon assault. do you hold that rape is worse than murder?

Inlander:
At least they're up-front about how craven the whole thing apparently is.

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