> But I don't get your sexism comment. I maintain that the sub-culture involves some behavior that can be described as "alpha-male". Maybe I was inaccurate with the wording. Could have said "competitive" as well.

I don't think you've ever been to a demoparty :-)

If there's any "alpha male" behaviour whatsoever, it's purely in a self-ridiculing way. It used to be there, back in the nineties when all demosceners were insecure teenage nerds and some of them felt a need to compensate for something. That part of the scene is gone for twenty years now, but it's still a lot of fun to make references to that part of history.

My favourite example of this is the demo "Regus Ademordna" by Excess [0]. The title is the reverse of "Andromeda Sucks" in Norwegian. Andromeda is another Norwegian demogroup who had just made a reappearance in the demoscene at the time after having been gone since those nineties. They hadn't gotten the memo that all that alpha male stuff was something of the past, so they took serious offense, much to the enjoyment of the rest of the scene.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkVbS4CTtfc