Four months ago, I had a rude awakening about the magnitude and virulence of misogyny in electronic music. I knew that women, trans people and non-binary people had always been undervalued in the scene, but I had no idea of just how insidious and widespread the problem was until I witnessed the online response to the death of chronic sexual predator Erick Morillo. Recently charged with rape, he was publicly mourned and celebrated following his passing â even after many victims shared their stories of his abuse, supported by witnesses.
Daniel Wangâs Facebook post this week â describing his elation at the fact that Peggy Gou had moved out of his Berlin apartment building â and the online response to it was a further study in ingrained misogyny. To date, 11,000 people have liked Wangâs laundry list of Gouâs crimes spanning her excessive makeup and perfume, expensive designer clothes and hundreds of pairs of shoes; her alleged ghost producing; kleptomania a