Why not ask them?
Or Beatwife himself?
The Panzi Foundation in the Congo is a fine organisation to support if you
care about women, btw.
On 22:23, Sun, 25 Mar 2018 nat hawks, <natbot@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 87 lines also very curious about that.> also very curious about that.
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> what would Mira Calix say? Holly Herndon?
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> *From:* Lee Swagerty <leeswagerty@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 25, 2018 5:21 PM
> *To:* nat hawks
> *Cc:* Juho Hietala; Zombiefly; 22tape; IDM List
> *Subject:* Re: beatwife podcast
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> This thread is hilarious.... and yeah most activity on the list in awhile.
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> If only there was a woman to voice an opinion — but nope, just a sausage
> fest haha.
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:10 PM, nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Is this name 'beatwife' not an example of direct misogyny?
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> This is a community, and within one's own community is a great place to
> start.
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> I went 'personal' rather quickly, totally fair... too quickly. I was just
> more outraged that others took the 'just don't buy the album' approach.
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> *From:* Juho Hietala <hietala@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 25, 2018 3:32 PM
> *To:* nat hawks
> *Cc:* Zombiefly; 22tape; IDM List
> *Subject:* Re: beatwife podcast
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> fair enough, i think your point might go over better with less attaching
> your own current situation to it which obviously affects your
> interpretation of someone’s silly stage name. it’s quite a lot of assuming.
> just saying it’s distasteful is quite enough i think; by all means mail him
> if you like to but don’t assume other people are as outraged as you are.
> personally i’m more worried about the direct misogyny, sexism and
> homophobia happening around us so the whole issue of someone’s dumb
> distasteful name seems a little silly to me
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> On 25 Mar 2018, at 19:45, nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Agreed. Total slippery slope.
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> But Beat wife is literally saying punching a woman in the face.
> Literally. Yes, I get the pun. I'm not impressed.
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> I'm no saint. My friends and I used to have an in-house joke band called
> "sucky fucky". We burned one CD-R and cut n paste Asian porn photos on it.
> We thought we were hilarious. I'd like to think I'm wiser now.
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> My point is, apologies if I came off as 'virtuous,' but I was trying to
> make a point.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 25, 2018, at 1:35 PM, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> wrote:
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> they (he/record company/magazine etc) already know it's not ok..... or do
> you think your disgust will be the trigger to the dawning realisation of
> his mistake? o_O
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> it's a name. he isn't beating wives. it's controversial. on purpose. he
> won't care if you object, i'm sure there have been objections since 2010 or
> whenever he started with it.
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