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thinking out loud
Sep. 24th, 2002 09:14 pmi have a hard time sometimes reconciling my feminism with rock.
i am adamantly anti-violent and over-spastic about guns, gunplay, violence in media, and hunting. my favorite band is guns n' roses.
it's hard for me when i hear c. say she's not a feminist. to me, one of my definitions of feminism is the trite "radical notion that women are people". of course she agrees with that, and of course she knows what it's like to have a hole that men want to put things in. that desire makes some men crazy, stupid, aggressive, overbearing, smarmy, and otherwise. she has experienced sexism many times in print and observation of "the female-fronted." wtf does female have to do with jack shit? that IS feminism to me, but i know i also may have a very very broad definition, kind of like my universal religious themes. being feminist is loving your woman-ness, embracing it and saying hell yeah to it, and fucking rocking it.
gnr has a lot of negative imagery, but it's just so damn important to say FUCK YOU to the man/the establishment/your mother that i embrace it. when i first saw r. william's original cover, i did not see a woman raped by demons, i saw a dizzy and hot and bothered woman that had had some otherworldly sex. and liked it.rocket queen and anything goes turned me ON. way on. used to love her made me laugh. i LOVE guns n roses and i'm a fullon feminist. it's all about resisting and shocking and feeling your own vitality rushing through you like riding on the back of a motorcycle.
all along the way, there's been the madonna/whore (ok, mostly whore) presence with women in the metal scene. the famous shot of paul stanley surrounded by beautiful women in lingerie makes me fucking throw up, but my dream job would be to ornament perry ferrral's beautiful music onstage with my body. beauty/sex/whore/saint it never ends, and i am bombarded with my own feelings and allegiances; trying to make them match and explain how they correlate.
i am adamantly anti-violent and over-spastic about guns, gunplay, violence in media, and hunting. my favorite band is guns n' roses.
it's hard for me when i hear c. say she's not a feminist. to me, one of my definitions of feminism is the trite "radical notion that women are people". of course she agrees with that, and of course she knows what it's like to have a hole that men want to put things in. that desire makes some men crazy, stupid, aggressive, overbearing, smarmy, and otherwise. she has experienced sexism many times in print and observation of "the female-fronted." wtf does female have to do with jack shit? that IS feminism to me, but i know i also may have a very very broad definition, kind of like my universal religious themes. being feminist is loving your woman-ness, embracing it and saying hell yeah to it, and fucking rocking it.
gnr has a lot of negative imagery, but it's just so damn important to say FUCK YOU to the man/the establishment/your mother that i embrace it. when i first saw r. william's original cover, i did not see a woman raped by demons, i saw a dizzy and hot and bothered woman that had had some otherworldly sex. and liked it.rocket queen and anything goes turned me ON. way on. used to love her made me laugh. i LOVE guns n roses and i'm a fullon feminist. it's all about resisting and shocking and feeling your own vitality rushing through you like riding on the back of a motorcycle.
all along the way, there's been the madonna/whore (ok, mostly whore) presence with women in the metal scene. the famous shot of paul stanley surrounded by beautiful women in lingerie makes me fucking throw up, but my dream job would be to ornament perry ferrral's beautiful music onstage with my body. beauty/sex/whore/saint it never ends, and i am bombarded with my own feelings and allegiances; trying to make them match and explain how they correlate.
