The punk movement was very much fuelled by women in the beginning. However women’s ability to express their anger for issues soon became overridden by the whole macho image that the men of the punk scene wanted to wallow in. With this oppression came a violence and discrimination towards women that was so repulsive that women knew they had to do something to change it. Many women had already stopped going to see punk bands because they were afraid of being killed in the mosh pit where, for a young woman, it was not uncommon to be the victim of sexual assault, with their bodies being groped and clothes torn. However, obviously not attending shows in fear of these things just added to the oppressive atmosphere that these women, not unlike most, were being forced to survive in. It was time for something new, something that women could be a par t of, something to express a reaction to this wrongly male dominated world: it was time for riot grrrl.
Riot Grrrl began with like-minded<
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