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Yeah, thanks for the consideration. And I think your journey highlights a conclusion/ hypothesis I had when I was trying to understand these differences with the anarchists I was hanging with from Europe. Regardless of anyone's individual philosophy, a strong component of being part of alternative culture is a rejection of whatever you perceive to be mainstream culture. And so even though you are trying to reject that culture, in that rejection, you are also allowing it to define you.
So if you perceive the mainstream culture to be exploitative of women through objectification, that might form part of the identity as part of your act of rejecting that culture. Or, alternatively, if you perceive the mainstream culture to be sexually repressive, you might adopt sex-positivity as part of your identity.
Among the Euro-punks I knew, this manifested as a clearly much more conservative view of sexuality and its relationship to resistance politics.