Punk music not only brought young, snotty, energetic youths to the forefront of the music scene as never before seen. It also offered us unruly, noisy, unsightly, creative women who formed groups, made a stand, printed words, designed, instigated, and lived out the extremes of this new risqué culture they called Punk Rock !
"These girls / women weren't seen as sex symbols with a curvy figure or a page 3 glamour girl. Though some oozed sex appeal in spades ! They were seen as more rabid St Trinians vamps, out to holler a defiant yell from the confines of controlled society.
A new offensive was signed and sealed for the alleged weaker sex ! These vixens turned out to be just as vicious and lewd as their groundbreaking contemporaries. Out was the little bo-peeps in nice dresses and girl next door image that pop music had so long cultivated and controlled. In came the aggressive attitude, dreadful hairstyles, black eyeliner, ripped fishnet stockings, bin liners, and a pallor any self respecting corpse would die for.
Over these pages is a celebration of these Punkettes who made the first wave what it is today. Yeah these ladies from Hades became the forerunners for a new independent Punk lineage."
http://www.punk77.co.uk/linkpage/womeninpunk.htm
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