"How The Spice Girls Taught Me To Be a Riot Grrl" By Mish Way

I remember watching the special "Girl Power A-Z" hosted by the Spice Girls. They named Courtney Love for C and showed a clip of the "Doll Parts" video. The Spice Girls commended Courtney for her anger, "Yeah Courtney! Throw that chair! Yeah! Raw! Courtney!" They clearly had no understanding of feminist politics, post-structural analysis or the fact that the inversion of gender roles is counter-productive and binary. But did I? Fuck no. That's something I figured out third year university. Deconstructing Spice was something I would do as a woman, not a girl.

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