Mere weeks after Grimes highlighted the hostility many women still face in the music industry during an illuminating interview with Fader magazine, UK-based band manager Emma Jay Marsh has reminded us all of why we still can’t have nice things.

As Alternative Press reports, after Marsh declined an offer for one of her clients to collaborate with another artist, she received a disturbing response from an artist and repertoire manager named Terry, which she subsequently shared online.

“Emma, shame you’re female, maybe you’d make a decent manager. It’s a male industry so maybe you need to take note of that, and cut your losses,” wrote Terry. “If I need a cleaner—I’ll holla at you. Thanks you piece of shit. Terry.”

Speaking to The Huffington Post, Marsh explained, “He’s an artist and repertoire manager and he said he would love to get one of his artists in for a session. I said that the act is working on his EP at the moment but that he could send his stuff in to me.”

“And that was his reply. It was completely uncalled for and unnecessary. I thought I would post it and show that those people are actually out there. The cleaner comment I just found really funny… I found it really amusing that it is 2015 and people are acting like dinosaurs.”

The 22-year-old told HuffPo that it’s commonplace for her to receive emails from other managers asking for a potential collaborative recording session, but the angry and misogynistic response she got from Terry, whom she refuses to fully name, was totally unexpected.

“[Sharing it] makes people aware. There’s always talk about racism, religion and this sort of stuff but women working in a male dominated world actually gets overlooked a bit. It does exist,” Marsh, who owns the London-based company Spiral Management, told the outlet.

But asked by The Independent whether such behaviour is commonplace in the music industry, Marsh told the paper, “Ninety-five percent of men I’ve dealt with are an absolute pleasure, and are great people who don’t tolerate things like this.”

“We do have some wonderful guys in the industry and it’s people like this that give them all a stereotype which isn’t at all true in most cases.” However, Marsh admitted she feels women are sometimes treated differently and sidelined in favour of male colleagues.

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Despite this, Marsh says she’s not phased by the message from “Terry” and that the response from online commenters has been overwhelmingly in her favour. “I take this stuff on the chin, because it doesn’t ever effect what I’m doing,” she told The Independent.

As Tone Deaf reported earlier this week, Canadian electronic songstress Grimes recently spoke out about the physical danger that many females working in the performance side of the industry continue to face, which she describes as simply “part of the job”.

“I get threats constantly — all female musicians do,” Grimes, real name Claire Elise Boucher, told Fader magazine. “People want to, like, rape and kill you. It’s, like, part of the job.” As a result, Boucher explained, she must surround her stage with bodyguards.

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