Thursday, 10 April 2008

WHO ARE THE 'PIQUED WOMEN OF PUNK'...?

It was going to be a quite day for zero hour with nothing doing until an email came that stuck out from the usual Viagra ads and car competitions: it was from people who claimed to be called 'THE PIQUED WOMEN OF PUNK'.
Who are they? I thought before reading their so called 'first communique', what a shock i got when i did.
It turns out they are "a punk women's movement who's aims are to balance out the way men are usurping the traditional women's role in punk". Eh? what does that mean?
It didn't take long to find out, about ten lines of quite vicious ranting in fact.
The tone is angry and, it turns out that these "piqued women who speak out for EVERY woman in punk" (their italics) have become upset because their "rights as female punks and skins" have been taken away from them by men who increasingly have "the biggest boobs in the audience and on stage at gigs". The 'piqued women' claim that over the past few years there has been an alarming rise in the number of 'thieving men' who are appearing in tight t-shirts that not only show off large and sometimes even pendulous man boobs, but also 'pregnant bellies'.
The 'communique' goes on like this for some length and its tone gets angrier and angrier as it goes along, by the last few lines you can almost see the venom screaming off the (email) page. "Why" it asks "are men so intent on stealing our female place as child bearers and the ones with the most voluptuous boobs when they already have so much, like the 'most violent bastards' title? DON'T THEY HAVE ENOUGH?" It thunders on.
I wondered who this lot were so i had a look for them on the net, it didn't give away many clues except one tiny post in a 'punk chat room' forum posted about eighteen months ago that says "I'm getting pissed off with men at gigs turning up in more expensive bras and tighter tops than me, showing off the contours of their manly milk bags with their hard pointy nipples. those bastard men should have their tits cut off and made into tobacco pouches". This was signed "skunk girl from Kent", that's the only clue to the identity of the 'piqued women of punk'. if it was even from a member that is.
I reckon this isn't the last we've heard from them, Not women that angry anyway!

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