10 more reasons to love riot grrrl

You can say that it’s crappy, unoriginal, overtly angry, overtly angsty, redundant or even narrow-minded, but… you’d be wrong.

1. Riot grrrl’s non-exclusive, welcoming philosophy is one that stands in stark contrast to almost every other punk scene – ever. Clothes, hair and every other sort of cred-generating physical feature were irrelevant; anyone who cared about women’s rights and a girl powered revolution could be part of the “scene” without facing scrutiny.

2. Artistic mediums were smashed together into DIY experiments that never so much as looked at getting major label, “corporate” exposure. ‘Zines churned out on photocopiers and albums recorded in closets cycled through the riot grrrl community and found thousands of fans without ever feeling the need to sell out, give in or defy any other part of the indie-punk fantasy.

3. Kathleen Hanna. Enough said.

4. Teenage girls were taken seriously without surrendering their adolescence. Riot grrrl didn’t force teenagers to stop caring about things like boys and hair and the mall, it merely acknowledged the social pressure to be interested in those things and the detrimental effects.

5. Riot grrrl’s cheeky spin on “lipstick” feminism made it cool to be an enlightened, empowered female… who shaved her underarms. The archetypal, stereotypical vision of an “ugly” man-hater could be rendered obsolete at last.

6. Feminism finally made sense to teenagers. I know that I was never much interested in first or second wave stuff. But then, suddenly, Carrie and Alison and Kathleen were making punk records and fanzines, and it was interesting, and as an angsty 13 year old, it felt worth it.

7. ‘Zines provide a creative outlet like no other. I never really appreciated how fucking GENIUS some of them are until I started working on my own. It is not easy. It is much, much harder than blogging but at the same time it’s like the most intellectual arts ‘n crafts project ever, and it’s funnn.

8. Predecessors like X-Ray Spex, the Raincoats and Joan Jett got credit. Riot grrrls never denied their influences.

9. Say what you want about the quality of the music, but it has staying power. I know way more riot grrrl fans (do keep in mind that I tend to join groups and clubs and lists of “Feminists on Tumblr”, of course) than I do fans of like, 90′s electronic. It’s just a lot more exciting and inspiring and, sometimes, catchy than other musical scenes.

10. As Kathleen Hanna once said, “We’re not anti-boy, we’re pro-girl.” Riot grrrl never asked fans to hate men or exclude them, it just provided a venue and a safety net so that girls could be themselves and look at life without bias piled on by having only males be influential. There were even a fe

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20 razões para ser feminista

1 – Porque puta é o adjectivo que descreve uma mulher que tem o mesmo desejo sexual que um homem.

2 – Porque a mutilação genital ainda é uma realidade.

3 – Porque em Portugal os trabalhos domésticos e os trabalhos considerados de cargos inferiores continuam a ser maioritariamente das mulheres.

4 - Porque dois terços dos analfabetos no mundo são mulheres e raparigas.

5 – Porque o feminismo nunca matou ninguém ao contrário do machismo que mata todos os dias.

6 – Porque a violência doméstica nas mulheres e crianças é uma realidade nos dias que correm.

7 - Porque toda a mulher já sofreu insultos na rua, no carro.

8 - Porque toda a publicidade sexista que nos rodeia mete nojo e a forma como degradam as mulheres.

9 - Porque somos solidários(as) com as mulheres e as raparigas, que aqui ou algures, são maltratadas, humilhadas, insultadas, violentadas, violadas.

10 – Porque queremos um mundo de direitos de igualdade e dignidade e que esses direitos sejam aplicados.

11 - Porque a sexualidade deve originar um prazer recíproco e não ser usada para sujar ou insultar.

12 – Porque ninguém manda no corpo da mulher.

13 - Porque 99% das terras cultivadas no mundo pertencem a homens, apesar de as mulheres produzirem 70% das culturas alimentares. Porque as mulheres são 70% das mais pobres no mundo.

14 - Porque o mundo machista e sexista em que vivemos menospreza as mulheres, homossexuais e as crianças.

15 – Porque cozinhar não tira a virilidade ao homem.

16 – Porque pedimos que uma lei contra o sexismo seja o modelo da lei francesa anti-racista de 1972, afim que os delitos e os crimes sexistas sejam reconhecidos como tal e punidos.

17 – Porque a toda a mulher é livre de escolher o companheiro.

18 – Porque ainda não existe liberdade de expressão.

19 - Porque os feministas fodem melhor.

20 - Porque este mundo continua uma merda.

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