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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Originally Posted by demonrail666
if all that riot grrrl was meant to be was a way for girls to 'rock just as hard as the boys' then it was a lot less interesting than I thought. Despite the name, there were boys involved in riot grrrl too and from my memory the idea was never to reach some kind of equilibrium with the rock world. My memory of it is that it was more an attempt to find some kind of an alternative to it. It rejected ideas like technique, gear fetish and and other coventions that were staples of the mainstream rock world, and had begun to find their way into alternative rock via bands like dinosaur. A lot of those ideas were borrowed from the post-punk/c86 era but, as secondhand and maybe even naive as those ideas may have been, they were far more exciting than merely campaigning for women to be taken seriously while rocking out during guitar solos. Vixen had already sort of done that.
yeah, it's not like a rock version of hollywood feminism which means women get to maim and kill on screen as much as men do.
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Both of you so totally got it down. Thank you so much for articulating this point so well. Seriously. I completely agree with both of you. I wish you could see how big the smile of my face is right now.