Why is the scene predominately male? Because it’s an aggressive scene. Aggression is generally considered a male trait- which of course it isn’t, not that that matters- because despite that traits like aggression and passivity and tenderness or the urge to nurture and the desire to fight are not GENDERED TRAITS just HUMAN TRAITS, boys are socialized to be more aggressive and girls are encouraged not to be, THUS, more aggressive dudes and less aggressive ladies come into the world, THEREFOR more aggressive dudes in the world means more dudes to find their way into hardcore, WHEREAS in the minority of aggressive females only a small fraction finds their home in hardcore, which in the end brings us to our final imbalanced male/female hardcore ratio.