Hi,
I've just read that John Lennon was a wife-beater and even hit his son, Julian.
In this Bikini Kill song, isn't there a Bridge that goes, "All we are saying is give peace a chance" and Tobi Vail screaming in the background? Isn't this a Beatles' reference?
This song probably is about the hypocrisy of some men who beat and rape, and pretend that they are decent guys. I always keep wondering how rapists (including mine) can walk around on this earth not feeling a sense of shame whatsoever about themselves. It is real, and mysoginy is more real than most of us want to admit. I recommend "Prima Facie", a theater play and now a novel by Suzie Miller. It portrays how most women who report a rape that was done to them have to endure humiliating cross-examination, and how most rapists aren't convicted. Bikini Kill might be raw and too 'radical' for some people, and maybe they didn't play their instruments perfectly, but it makes me sad how there was such a backlash against them. In my opinion, they spoke the truth about what's happening ever day, still, to a lot of women all around the world. Feminism is somewhat "watered down" nowadays, cause everyone wants to conform and not be a pain in the ass, but maybe it takes something radical to change things...
Hi, I've just read that John Lennon was a wife-beater and even hit his son, Julian. In this Bikini Kill song, isn't there a Bridge that goes, "All we are saying is give peace a chance" and Tobi Vail screaming in the background? Isn't this a Beatles' reference? This song probably is about the hypocrisy of some men who beat and rape, and pretend that they are decent guys. I always keep wondering how rapists (including mine) can walk around on this earth not feeling a sense of shame whatsoever about themselves. It is real, and mysoginy is more real than most of us want to admit. I recommend "Prima Facie", a theater play and now a novel by Suzie Miller. It portrays how most women who report a rape that was done to them have to endure humiliating cross-examination, and how most rapists aren't convicted. Bikini Kill might be raw and too 'radical' for some people, and maybe they didn't play their instruments perfectly, but it makes me sad how there was such a backlash against them. In my opinion, they spoke the truth about what's happening ever day, still, to a lot of women all around the world. Feminism is somewhat "watered down" nowadays, cause everyone wants to conform and not be a pain in the ass, but maybe it takes something radical to change things...