The Industry Ain't Safe

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Justin Sane from Anti-Flag. Am I really the only person this has happened to?

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Adam Bravin is still getting gigs after sexually harassing nearly every woman who entered his club

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The Buttertones are rapists, sexists, and racists. Multiple statements have recently come out regarding Sean, Richard, and Cobian. All statements have been shared on an instagram page called @exposing_the_buttertones

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I hold a lot of respect for what this blog is doing and am incredibly appreciative of what it is accomplishing as well, but I am unfortunately only discovering this blog through my interest in the work of one of the aforementioned bands/men. In fact, they are my favorite artist. This is not a dilemma I have ever encountered before. What should I do? Or, better yet, what can I do?

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a friend of mine had a really nonconsensual experience with alex ahmadi from the cosmonauts. this isn't the only story i've heard about him.

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Hello,

I came upon your tumblr this past week after following luredbyburgerrecords. I really appreciate your efforts and the fact that you started The Industry Ain't Safe. I just wanted to let you know that you're doing good work and it is greatly appreciated. 

In solidarity,

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I narrowly escaped an attempted assault by Wyatt Bridges, a manager at a Los Angeles venue we both worked at. He had been flirtatious at work in a way I thought was inappropriate long before this occurred. It was our company holiday party, I was clearly drunk and trying to collect myself alone in the kitchen space backstage before going home. He entered the room, looked at my empty glass, physically cornered me and chased me out of the room when I made a break for it. I exited out the door to the kitchen, closing the door on him while he pried it open with his arm. That part was caught on surveillance video which I later asked to see after I confronted him at our sister venue and he denied everything. I confronted him in front of witnesses. I've seen him be violent with other colleagues and no one I told my story to was surprised.  From what I understand, he was encouraged to leave the organization (not fired) and eventually got his job back after his replacement quit. Beware. I'm sure I'm not the first and won't be the last. 

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Christian James Oppel, who goes by both Godforbid and The Handsome Devil sexually assaulted me after getting out of control drunk at his own show. A year later he goes between blocking me and making new accounts to follow me.

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Kevin Barnes knowingly preys on underage girls and his band covers it up. It happened to a friend and she was starry eyed but she did not feel cool about it later. Another girl here got assaulted by him too it sounds like a pattern

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I had a not great, non consensual experience with Aaron Bondaroff (Know Wave) about 5 years ago. Be careful xx

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ERIC DUNCAN IS A RAPIST. I know a couple women in the industry who have been assaulted by him.

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A Note

Several recent submissions have been anonymous and requested a response from me in some way, but not publicly. Tumblr doesn’t allow for private responses to anonymous messages. If you’d like to communicate off the record, please mail [email protected].

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I know for a fact that men are using this page to post allegations. How do you plan on guaranteeing that this is a woman-only space?

I don’t - as suggested in the post below, I sometimes post submissions which I find distasteful or insensitive because I think they serve an illusory purpose; there’s no way for me to gatekeep the identity or perspectives of anonymous posters. As for false allegations, I try my best to screen submissions for content which is obviously vindictive or suspiciously lacking detail, but I guess I rely on the goodwill of the community to be respectful of this resource.

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‘Multiple sexual harassment accounts...haha’. The language used in some posts is highly inappropriate, gleeful and lacking in sensitivity. Please take this int account when publishing posts.

Thanks for your feedback. It’s hard for me to toe the line of respecting everyone’s voice as a submissions-based blog - totally open to more feedback about how to do this. While some may find the language of some posts insensitive, I think it also serves an informative purpose in terms of insight to the discourse that pervades conversations on this topic.

I think the “haha” you are referring to is akin to a depressed sigh, for what it’s worth - I don’t think the poster genuinely thinks it’s funny.

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watch out for matt robidoux. alcohol brings out the worst in him.

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Jeffertitti, Gabriel pacheco, butter tones, along with many others have multiple sexual harassment accounts on them yet continue to play almost every show in echo park haha promoters know this. we all do.

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Re: below (Zach) - Then why has he officially divested from Baby's All Right?