[gazunklenut]

What? That's kind of creepy.

Raves are and always have been about dancing. The creeps walking around looking for hookups are just that, a bunch of weird creeps that annoy people trying to dance.

Edit: To clarify, it's creepy becaucse a lot of people are on something and pretty vulnerable, they're there to dance and enjoy the music and now some creep is trying to get in their pants while they're rolling and drunk

[switchbak]

"night clubs were about hooking up" - they weren't talking about raves. Night clubs were a different thing, and hooking up was definitely a big part of that. And for selling expensive liquor to people, but whatever.

[gazunklenut]

You can't have a rave in a nightclub? I'm sorry I thought this whole post was about raves, didnt realise we were specifically talking about outdoor raves?

A nightclub is a location, a rave is a type of party where electronic DANCE music is played.

The idea of a rave is that people go there to DANCE to the electronic DANCE music. Not to hookup.

[switchbak]

If you thought it was about raves, why say night clubs?

(In North America at least) A night club is a particular kind of venue, it's not just a location. It's very distinct from a rave, and they have very different cultures. It's confusing when you conflate the two.

[gazunklenut]

> If you thought it was about raves, why say night clubs?

Because the post is about raves. I responded to a comment about nightclubs in a post about raves, its implied then they're talking about raves in nightclubs, what else would they be talking about?

> (In North America at least) A night club is a particular kind of venue, it's not just a location. It's very distinct from a rave, and they have very different cultures. It's confusing when you conflate the two.

What the hell are you talking about, raves happen in nightclubs all the time (all over the US too). You are just making up your own definitions now.

[monitorlizard]

It's creepy if you have bad vibes. If you can read the room and take rejection with a smile I think it's chill

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

This is exactly right. It's only creepy if you're creepy.

There is always someone looking to vibe with a positive-energy person they met that night. Sometimes it leads to more and sometimes you just dance all night, give a big hug, and never see each other again.

[omnimus]

At same time this is pretty disingenuous calling people creeps. Yes you don't go to raves to look for hookups but at same time its social occasion and you can meet many people (in all kinds of states). And stuff wears off. So many people end up with new contacts if not straight up going with someone home. You know MDMA and sex match pretty well...

[carlosjobim]

Don't find romantic partners at work, that's against company policy and you will get fired.

Don't find romantic partners at raves, that's creepy, people are there to dance.

Don't find romantic partners at night clubs, that's creepy, people are there to dance.

Don't find romantic partners at public places, that's creepy, people don't want to be bothered in public.

Don't find romantic partners among friends, now you're ruining all the friendships.

Do stay locked up inside and try to find romantic partners between advertisements, by swiping on a screen three thousand times. That's more efficient and won't risk you wasting any productive time that you in fact owe to the government, to shareholders and to pensioners. It's actually quite outrageous that some young people are trying to escape their productivity duties and even risk forming long term relationships and having children, which is literally taking food out of the mouths of the elderly. They need your tax dollar, stop wasting time!

[mixmastamyk]

The song, "Up all night to get lucky," would like a word with you.

[gazunklenut]

Not a rave song, not singing about rave culture.

[mixmastamyk]

If “rave culture” won’t get busy, then they are doomed to die out. (Insert quote from Fight Club about Pandas.)

[4ggr0]

Men will be men, sadly. Can't even feel safe when sober as a charming guy could decide to put roofies in your diet coke.

[celdon25]

> Men will be men, sadly.

I don't think that's an appropriate way to frame it.