mantha_’s Reviews > Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves > Status Update
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“To invert a quote from The Handmaid's Tale, the riot-grrrl movement wanted women to have freedom from: sexual violence, abuse, injustice, fear. The Spice Girls embodied freedom to: have fun, earn money, pursue pleasure. …”
Personally I think women should be able to wish for all of those.
— Sep 06, 2026 06:15PM
Personally I think women should be able to wish for all of those.
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Sep 06, 2026 06:18PM
I understand the need for the comparison (and the harm Spice Girls could have caused from a “corporate” stand point) but as a young girl at THAT time it didn’t feel like you had to want only one. For most girls Spice Girls were a gateway to understanding feminism
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