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Originally Posted by swa(y)
i realize this. and she hardley started "riot girl", she just gave a pre-existing feminist movement a punk rock face and a new name.
its total rubbish.
get yr facts right.
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If you realize it, why did you say different? If my facts are wrong, why do you realize them?
I'm hardly going to spend any time defending riot grrl (though I'll give them the benefit of spelling it the way they did). Kathleen was
one of the originals, so she started it as much as Nomy or any of the rest of them. My wife went to one of the original meeting, but decided it wasn't her thing at all. I'd leave it to one of them (if they weren't decades older and moved on) to debate whether they just gave a punk rock face and new name to a "pre-existing feminist movement" or not. It wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if that's all it was as at the time it sucked a lot more to be a punk rock girl than it does today, and they probably deserve some credit for inspiring those changes. But then so do Poison Ivy, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett as none of this stuff exist in a vacuum.