In I Live Sweat's latest column on sexism in the punk scene, Katie Crutchfield of P.S. Eliot offered her take on the issue. Here's a quote:

"We're small and we're specifically weird and the fact that the simple idea of treating all people with equal respect is warranting a shitstorm of hyper-masculine cold-shouldering and hate-typing is fucking ludicrous as far as I'm concerned. Acknowledging a giant zit on the chin of our tiny punk rock commonality does not have to be a witch-hunt. It doesn't have to be a big blame game or an excuse for some ex-JV benchwarmer with an X watch to make me, Lauren, the Two Funerals or anyone else the butt of some defensive, awkward and outlandishly counter-productive joke. It doesn't have to be a war, a battle or even an argument. It just has to be a conversation."

Read the entire essay here and as always, give us your thoughts in the comments.