Publications like Spin Magazine, who in an article in the spring, the L.A. Weekly, New Music Express, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone have also followed with limited impressions. They made these Grrrls into cartoon characters void of creative thought. Aside from the caricatures, NME, Melody Maker, and USA Today repeatedly suggested that these Grrrls were capable of violence toward any random white male. They should have gone beyond the rhetoric of song titles. Riot Grrrls are neither gun-toting feminazis nor out to get men.
Music is simply a medium to express themselves.
Ironically after the convention and just before the USA Today story ran, Hanna asked me to write to her about my experience with Riot Grrrls, in hopes of finding out if the stereotype were real. Grrrls don't mince words. While writing this column, Bratmobile's Allison Wolfe informed me that ABC News was flying to Olympia in hopes of interviewing her. She told me she was unsure whether to refuse the interview or to accept it on the pretenses of telling the reporter she plans on blowing up the country. ABC news would probably only report that anyway.