I had a very different experience of the early days of the "emo"/hardcore scene. I had a female friend who played guitar in a hardcore band and found it to be a really supportive environment. I was even in an emo-esque all-girl band for a brief time, but we all got caught up in college before it could go anywhere. There was this sense in the early days that we had all experienced heartbreak, some of us were angry, but we all wanted to talk about it and get our experiences out there and have this supportive community. I had some straight guy friends that were into it, a wide spectrum of lesbians, gay guys, all sorts of people and this music brought us together. In my experience it wasn't anti-female at all, at least not any more than the rest of rock music in general... but maybe I was just lucky. I really enjoyed this piece though, and I am going to check out Modern Day Escape. Thanks for writing about it.