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Riot Grrrl
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Riot Grrrl = Punk Rock + Feminism (not the straw kind, mind you). Riot Grrrl was an underground musical movement popular in The '90s that combined speedy Hardcore Punk with lyrics addressing feminist issues - female empowerment, sexuality, domestic abuse, rape, and other important matters. The movement coalesced around the Seattle and Olympia metropolitan areas in Washington, largely due to its extensive DIY infrastructure (and The Evergreen State College in Olympia), with its roots in the unorganised collective outrage drawn by the Anita Hill judiciary hearings in 1991. Its name comes apocryphally from a letter Bratmobile member Jen Smith wrote to Allison Wolfe, stating We need to start a girl riot. The phrase itself was the name of a magazine started by Wolfe, Molly Neuman, and Bikini Kill members Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail. Riot grrrl bands largely drew their inspiration from female-fronted punk and alternative musicians of the past, such as The Runaways, The Raincoats, X-Ray Spex, The Slits, X (US Band), Patti Smith, The Plasmatics, Lydia Lunch, Crass, and Kim Gordon. Their music, much like the grunge that was becoming popular around the same time, was based around Three Chords and the Truth, eschewing complex musicianship in favour of raw production, aggressive sounds, and lyrics dealing largely with politics, society, and feminism. The movement relied heavily on promotional means pioneered by punk rock bands in the past, such as publishing various magazines, photocopied handbills, collage-based booklets, and cassette culture. Said magazines had a definite political bent, featuring commentary and experiences on various important issues such as sexism, mental illness, body image and eating disorders, sexual abuse, racism, rape, discrimination, stalking, domestic violence, incest, and homosexuality. While many bands in the genre were all-female, some bands (such as Bikini Kill, one of the genre's pioneers, and Huggy Bear) also had male members. The mainstream music world largely misinterpreted the Riot Grrrl movement's political stances and sensibilities, making them out to be Straw Feminist misandrists and generally not caring enough to do the research. They also lumped various female-fronted Alternative Rock bands with the movement no matter how tenuous the similarities were, such as Hole, The Breeders, The Gits, Elastica, 7 Year Bitch, Babes in Toyland, and even No Doubt. The sheer lack of care or research became so excessive that Bikini Kill entered a media blackout around 1993. Kathleen Hanna encouraged all the bands to do the same, but not many followed through. The movement splintered by the mid '90s, disillusioned with its misrepresentation in the mainstream music press and feeling that its radical politics had been subverted or co-opted as less challenging "girl power" by various female-fronted pop bands like the Spice Girls and the Dixie Chicks. |
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Cecily Bain in Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth is a former Riot Grrrl who is irritated that her scene has moved on as they've mostly aged to soccer moms or even become old. | |
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Discussed in the 90s teen romcom 10 Things I Hate About You, where asocial feminist Kat is stated to like "angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion". The film features several Riot Grrl songs and artists, such as Letters To Cleo. | |
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Excuse 17 (also queercore; Carrie Brownstein played here before Sleater-Kinney) | |
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The Linda Lindas (with a tween/teenage lineup) | |
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Yellowjackets: Natalie's a tough, aggressive punk spirit both in the 1990s and present, but her clothing (leather jacket, rock band t-shirts, fishnet stockings), appearance, and personality are all heavily inspired by this subculture throughout. | |
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Riot Girls The title's an obvious reference to this, and the titular duo are a punk lesbian couple, standing up for themselves against Jerk Jock enemies throughout the film. | |
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Heavens To Betsy (Corin Tucker played here before Sleater-Kinney) | |
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Doom Patrol (2019) has a faithful updated homage to Crazy Jane with an emphasis on her politics as well as rebellious punk girl attitude. This notably leaves Southern redneck Robotman completely confused as he has no idea what she's talking about half the time. | |
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