Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

["J Neo Marvin" <j_n_e_o AT hotmail.com>]

Another thought after reading it again...editors and journalists tend to 
like stories with an angle that gets people's attention, so perhaps this was 
Kimberly Chun's way to get some press for a couple of her favorite new 
bands, T.I.T.S. and 16 Bitch Pileup, in a companion piece to her very 
interesting Erase Errata article. Pity we end up with a rather glib, silly 
setup at the start...oh yeah, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, and Destiny's Child 
have so much in common, don't they?

But I suspect the author's intentions were honorable, but twisted by the 
notion that you have to have some kind of bold, sweeping thesis to stimulate 
arguments on the letters page and therefore render the article worth 
writing.

> [This story is spin I'd say. Le Tigre are just on hiatus.  And there are
> more girls in bands now than ever.]