"ohhhh, punk has been made too widely palatable and for everyone. REAL punks are like presbyterian minister mr rogers!" there are still hardcore bands out there! you can go see them if you want! i bet this person would listen to the ramones and go "umm, he wants to sniff glue? are we glorifying drug addiction now? this is SO not punk!"
there are people in the notes going "yeah! this is so true!"
i think this is part of a broader trend of people feeling to need to justify everything they enjoy, it can't just be a show they remember fondly from when they were a kid, it needs to be punk
I see this all the time with sexual preferences. It can’t just be “I like big boobs” or even “flat chested girls aren’t sexy,” no, it’s got to be “Western culture was built around the ideal of the large breasted woman and any deviation from that will cause the downfall of civilization and rational thought.”
When you're hating on flat chested girls like that you're a misogynist pig and deserve to be kicked in the face until you bleed. Same for when you shame any other girl for her body type. This must be repeated until you understand that "i'm not into (body type)" isn't the same as "people with (body type) aren't sexy". I don't get why it's so hard not to be a piece of shit about other peoples' looks.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing that phrasing a sexual preference as “anyone who doesn’t fit my preference is not sexy in an absolute sense” is okay. And that goes for any gender or sexuality. I’m just observing that a lot of people these days go beyond that to “My preference is a cornerstone of civilization/logic/biology.”
ah, ok. yeah, there's a point to that, reactionaries in particular love to bring out their biotruths to make a point.