What is a Riot Grrl?

From the Halls of Hypocrisy

Among the Olympians of insincerity, the accoladen Asgardian alumni of the Valhallan halls of hypocrisy is the riot grrl known as Kathleen Hannah.  

The following is from my expanding Culture War Encyclopedia.

A riot grrl would be a woman (adult female human) who might, for example, sing in a kick-ass independent punk group but then marry a man who, by the standards of the sort of the 3rd wave feminist ethos she espoused in her lyrics, got rich off misogynistic, sexist and politically incorrect lyrics like, "I'll ride with you if you can get me to the border. The sheriff's after me for what I did to his daughter, I did her like this. I did her like that. I did her with a wiffle ball bat, so..." and settle down with him in economically elite lower Manhattan.

Kathleen Hannah and Adam Horovitz (Ad-rock of the Beastie Boys).

Such a woman may, or may not admit to grifting as a popular conformist girl in high school to fit in…

When Hanna's family arrived on the west coast, she studied the groups at school and copied, down to the last hair pin, the most popular girls' style. Looking back, she calls it a "social experiment", although at the time it was more like survival. "Kids can be really mean, and when you move in the middle of sixth grade, you'd better get ready to take some shit." She began wearing "Ralph Lauren sweaters and these certain kinds of bangles and made friends who were like that. And I remember hating them and thinking they were ridiculous, but I just wanted to prove that I could do it."

If she was conformist at school, Hanna was starting to find her own style more at home. She began writing poetry…

Such a woman (see here) would almost surely be white, liberal, to have “studied photography” or some other liberal arts and to have been “convinced she would become an artist of some kind” or otherwise become employed using her elitist liberal arts social sciences “education”.

Images source: New York times Style Magazine. Captioned: “Live photos from the early days of Bikini Kill, featuring (clockwise from left) the singer-songwriter Kathleen Hanna, the drummer Tobi Vail and Hanna with the bassist Kathi Wilcox. CreditClockwise from left: Allison Wolfe; Bikini Kill Records (2)”

Working as a stripper while admitting it is a sexist job in a “sexist society” (i.e. being a hypocrite) is optional but characteristic of being a riot grrl.

Kathleen Hannah singing in the band Bikini Kill.

Kathleen Hannah.

Kathleen Hannah and Adam Horovitz.

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