Spice girls

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 19 21:04:26 PDT 1998


James Heartfield wrote:


>In message <l03130312b24ff2f75e0a@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
><dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>>They represent girl power as the
>>Thatcher-sympathizing assumption of cliched babe roles scripted by others.
>>What's feminist about that?
>
>Maybe you expect too much of a pop group.

I don't expect this from a pop group, though it's always nice. K was alluding to a pre-existing conversation on Bad Subjects, in which the normally wonderful Catherine Driscoll found some feminist content in the SG. Of course she also thinks that Foucault should be read as a comedian.

Doug



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