Oh, and: I used to hate the Bible too! It's a funny thing. What part are you up to? I always kinda felt like Genesis was the slightly slow introductory chapter, and Exodus was where the fun and excitement starts... but I am a very particular type of dork.
i just finished genesis. it just really really bothers me how the women are portrayed and how the stories unfold. seems like god rewards some pretty stupid things (humbleandfearfuliam) too.
its not just on riot grrrl, just women making protest/feminist/etc music in general. its really cool. i had no idea that bikini kill and stuff was even considered riot grrrl; i thought it was only grunge stuff like hole. the point of the class is to show how women were kinda shoved out of the way in rock music and how they came back into it and why/how and what they had to say in their music. basically, a feminist class where we only focus on music.
Haha. Well, a lot of that is just how women were back then. Matriarchal society. =/
There are some kickass women later in the old testament though. I think the fourth "judge" of the Israelites (in the book of Judges, no less) was Deborah, who rocks. She tells folks what's up. And I think in her same story there is also another awesome chick who kills the villain by pretending to be friendly to him, letting him take a nap in her tent, and then driving a tent peg through his temple.
Ruth was kickass too, right? I want to say that the tent thing you mentioned was Ruth, but I don't remember anymore -anyways, there's a lot of fun stuff to read in the old testament.
A lot of not fun stuff too... but that's how it goes.
Reply
Reply
its not just on riot grrrl, just women making protest/feminist/etc music in general. its really cool. i had no idea that bikini kill and stuff was even considered riot grrrl; i thought it was only grunge stuff like hole. the point of the class is to show how women were kinda shoved out of the way in rock music and how they came back into it and why/how and what they had to say in their music. basically, a feminist class where we only focus on music.
Reply
There are some kickass women later in the old testament though. I think the fourth "judge" of the Israelites (in the book of Judges, no less) was Deborah, who rocks. She tells folks what's up. And I think in her same story there is also another awesome chick who kills the villain by pretending to be friendly to him, letting him take a nap in her tent, and then driving a tent peg through his temple.
Reply
A lot of not fun stuff too... but that's how it goes.
Reply
Leave a comment