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[Welcome To Riot Grrrl Online]
Kathleen Hanna Quotes "I hate the attitude of, 'oh we already have a Lydia Lunch, so we do we need a Bikini Kill.' Well, there's like 2 hundered million all-male bands writting 'baby baby I love you, let me drag you around on my ankle.' Is that enough already? Duh!"---Kathleen Hanna "We need each other. Discouraging words, belittling other girls in front of boys, laughing looks...have no place here. Dialogue does. Let's make girl love real, okay?"---Kathleen Hanna "You try to make me crazy, you try to make me scared, you try to make me crazy. I think you're a fucking drag"---Kathleen Hanna "I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth."---Kathleen Hanna "I don't want to write songs about rape and male domination for the rest of my life. Yet people expect the same thing over and over. And if you stop doing it, you're called a sell-out."---Kathleen Hanna "Drugs keep us thinking about scoring-not thinking about fucking this society up. Why not fuck up the government instead of fucking up yr body?"---Kathleen Hanna "Why yes, I feel like I'm being gawked at live. Part of the thing that is really weird for me is that I used to be an exotic dancer and I find that sometimes there's not really that much of a difference between playing in a punk bar and being a stripper except for I have my clothes on. A lot of men come with the same exact attitudes that guys do that come to a strip bar. They think, "Oh, it's a girl band, we'll go and watch their butts and their tits or something like that." They don't don't think of us as performers they just think of us sorta like seals that jump through hoops that have tits. Like the guys tonight saying 'take your clothes off.'"---Kathleen Hanna "It's not taking my perspective into account cause I did that shit for fucking seven years and it's not funny to me. I have to deal with sexism every day so it's like maybe boys can find that really funny and humorous, I don't have the luxury to find that humorous. I live it every fucking day. That's not funny to me, and if I say it's not funny, it's not funny. You know what I mean? It's like there's no argument there, whether it's funny or not, if I say I don't find it funny it means, 'hey, be cool to me and respect me, your joke is not my joke.'---Kathleen Hanna "Fuck yeah, do you feel like a freak show ever? Riding on the bus, fucking guys calling you fags and shit, I'm sure that happens doesn't it?"---Kathleen Hanna "So what? Boys should touch each other more, I mean, they don't fucking have to beat each other up. It's the only reason they beat people up is because they want to fuck each other."---Kathleen Hanna "There’s a lot of trust. If Tobi sang something that seemed a little weird, I would assume that there was a really good reason for it. I’d assume she knew what she was doing.---Kathleen Hanna "I think that party in Oakland was totally fun. The thing that was cool this time was that there were so many dyke girls there. So many right in the front that were totally yelling. I felt like I could do anything that I wanted because they were totally right there. I felt really protected. I felt like I could fuck with people a lot more. I felt really comfortable." ---Kathleen Hanna "It’s one of the only times when it’s supposedly okay to touch each other. Like to touch each other’s hair. It’s one of the only time I thought it was safe to not be heterosexual. We’ve all been dealing with issues of our heterosexuality."---Kathleen Hanna "They’re wearing their “I hate girls” t-shirts, riding their bikes. We spend all this time trying to convince them that we’re cool rather than hanging out with each other. That’s something that I’ve learned from being in Bikini Kill. I was really nervous about being onstage with the band that I was in before. We toured and I spent a lot of time explaining to boys that what I was going was valid instead of really getting in touch at shows with the girls who were there. Guys would come up to me and ask me if I was a man-hater. I would sit there and explain and explain. Really I was wasting my energy. I still get really nervous before we have to play. So we came up with four points that we use to respond to guys. If they’re cool, then maybe a dialogue will happen. But id they’re not cool, they get all four answers."---Kathleen Hanna "We’re pro-violent revolution. We’re also pro-revolution everyday."---Kathleen Hanna "It'd be like saying girls aren't okay just for being girls, which is what people are always telling girls - that they're dumb and their opinions don't matter. We want to be empowering and encouraging, and how can you do anything if you feel like shit about yourself and like what you say doesn't matter?"---Kathleen Hanna "I think one things that's really important in the boy community or whatever, or the boy things, is like, to realize that oppression is a two-way street. You know what I mean? That it's like, white men are really missing out - I don't wanna say white men are oppressed but..."---Kathleen Hanna "What I'm saying is that I think that way that masculinity has been constructed in our society is fucking boys up. Because, even if you just look at it on a personal level, it's like, I can't hang out with boys who haven't educated themselves or been educated in some meaningful way about sexism. And so it's like, the guys who wanna be friends with me are just gonna miss out, you know? And I happen to think I am a pretty cool friend to have, you know what I mean? The way I look at it, it's just a lot more complex than saying white man equals evil (although that is a perfectly fine thing to say sometimes). "---Kathleen Hanna "You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls."---Kathleen Hanna "To me, people have to be aware that to be gay or queer or whatever in this world right now means that you're basically being given shit all the time. You know, constantly. And in a different way than if you're black. You're dealing with a certain non-stop discrimination that really dictates their behavior. Like, I know plenty of gay women who won't kiss in public. You know what I mean? Well, I wanted to ask you about how Riot Grrrl deals with the male, white person. Like how you want to see males get involved in terms of forwarding what you want to do, and actually bettering the situation overall."---Kathleen Hanna "Oh yeah, we should get back to the original question, of like what can the boys do to help or something? Well, personally I think it's crucial that boys talk to each other about their own sexisms, their own experiences as oppressors, and get used to recognizing how their behavior/action may be affecting women. And there's all sorts of ways they can get information about what all different kinds of women/ladies and girls think. Like aside from just vampiring the females that they might know. Like there are lots of books and records and fanzines that they can seek out. Plus guys have to realize that their very presence may be censoring and demanding to women, so there are gonna be times when they just shouldn't be around, you know? And bitching about this just adds to the whole problem anyways, cos it's not about exclusion. It's about safety."---Kathleen Hanna
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