After Gen X's brief triumph over mainstream music it quickly dissolved into crap that told us "Hey now, you're an all-star" and English (spice) girls making a mockery of feminism. Practically the only music still active that had any guts was the Riot Grrrls that addressed true "girl power", horrific realities like rape, and sexuality in general. Bands like Bikini Kill, L7 and Sleater Kinney encapsulated more Punk at a single show than Johnny Rotten could muster in his overrated career. The coolest thing many of the bands did before a show was to take a marker and write terms like "bitch" or "slut" on their bodies to diffuse the word when some meathead in attendance would inevitably hurl it them.
Kurt, once said "The future of rock belongs to women". I hope he was speaking of life after Britney.
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I hope I never have daughters, because female role models in modern culture right now are as pathetic as some drunk chick doing the walk of shame from the frat house. Whatever happened to women with attitudes!?! I saw Stolen Babies in Tacoma last year (female singer), she was pretty good. Maybe there is hope.
Hang in there, LT. There's always a backlash against the status quo and the Paris Hiltons of the world have just about run their course.
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