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being a woman isn’t about the body you were born with or your feelings or your brain it’s about being haunted by this quote from margaret atwood for your entire life

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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Florette, Paris 1944. Scan De Lartigue, l’album d’une vie. ®Centre Pompidou, Editions du Seuil 2003

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“What I remember most is how beautiful everybody was, and of course the beautiful clothes; we dressed up as Medieval damsels and princes, pirates, pre-Raphaelite Madonnas, popes, hussars, mad hatters, and creatures visiting from other planets.”

— Marianne Faithfull describing the 1960s in Memories, Dreams & Reflections.

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Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland

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When you see the kinderwhore tag has been taken over by chicks with KoRn tattoos in jeans and shit:

So here's the definition and description of it:

Kinderwhore was a clothing style used by a handful of mostly female grunge bands in the US during the early to mid-1990s. The kinderwhore look consisted of torn, ripped tight or low-cut babydoll and Peter-Pan-collared dresses, slips, knee-socks, heavy makeup with dark eyeliner, barrettes, and leather boots or Mary Jane shoes.

It was described as "a strong feminist statement...about so much more than a little velvet dress, ripped tights and a dumb media-made label. It was about intentionally taking the most constraining parts of the feminine, good-girl aesthetic, inflating them to a cartoon level, and subverting them to kill any ingrained insecurities." It has been noted that although the look was very feminine, when its exponents performed onstage they "stood tall and confident, they threw their guitars around like weapons, and screamed out whip-smart feminist lyrics. These women were questioning the cultural importance of typical beauty through costume and the stage."

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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ♡* Bruise Violet *♡･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

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✿ GROUPIES OUTRAGEOUSLY’S ULTIMATE MASTERPOST ✿

Celebrating the blog’s two year anniversary and the new milestone of 5.000 followers. Thank you!

Movies

200 Motels [DOWNLOAD] // A Hard Day’s Night [WATCH] // All Is By My Side [WATCH] // Almost Famous [WATCH] // Backbeat [WATCH] // Beautiful Darling [WATCH] // Beyond the Sea [DOWNLOAD] // Bohemian Rhapsody [WATCH] // Control [WATCH] // Das wilde leben aka Eight Miles High [DOWNLOAD] // Detroit Rock City [WATCH] // The Dirt [WATCH] // Elvis and Me [WATCH] // Factory Girl [WATCH] // Frank Zappa - Pioneer of Future Music [WATCH] // Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life [WATCH] // Great Balls of Fire! [WATCH] // Groupies [WATCH] // Groupie Girl aka I Am a Groupie [WATCH] // Jersey Boys [WATCH] // Kurt & Courtney [WATCH] // Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck [DOWNLOAD] // La Bamba [WATCH] // Let’s Spend the Night Together [WATCH] // Love & Mercy [WATCH] // Quadrophenia [WATCH] // Rocketman [WATCH] // Rock n’ Roll High School [WATCH] // Sid & Nancy [WATCH] // Stoned [WATCH] // Sunset Strip [DOWNLOAD] // The Banger Sisters [WATCH] // The Doors [WATCH] // This Is Spinal Tap [WATCH] // Velvet Goldmine [WATCH] // Walk the Line [WATCH]

Books

A Big Life by Jenny Kee [BUY] // A Freewheelin’ Time by Suze Rotolo [BUY] // Angels Dance and Angels Die by Patricia Butler [BUY] // Backstage Passes by Angie Bowie [BUY] // California Dreamin’ by Michelle Phillips [BUY] // Chasing the Dragon by Cathy Smith [BUY] // Dandelion by Catherine James [BUY] // Dirty Rocker Boys by Bobbie Brown [BUY] // Dream Lovers by Dodd Darin [BUY] // Dream On by Cyrinda Foxe [BUY] // Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley [BUY] // Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull [BUY] // Going Down with Janis by Peggy Caserta [BUY] // Groupie by Jenny Fabian [BUY] // Groupies and Other Electric Ladies by Baron Wolman [BUY] // Hollywood Diaries by Morgana Welch [BUY] // I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres [BUY] [DOWNLOAD] // John by Cynthia Lennon [BUY] // Let’s Spend the Night Together by Pamela Des Barres [BUY] [DOWNLOAD] // Love Him Madly by Judy Huddleston [BUY] // Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record by Marianne Faithfull [BUY] // Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull [BUY] // Miss O'Dell by Chris O'Dell [BUY] // Rebel Heart by Bebe Buell [BUY] // Storms by Carol Ann Harris [BUY] // Take Another Little Piece of My Heart by Pamela Des Barres [BUY] // The First Time by Cher [BUY] // This Is the End… My Only Friend by Judy Huddleston [BUY] // Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchingham [BUY] // Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd [BUY] // Stoned by Jo Wood [BUY] // It’s Only Rock N’ Roll: Married Thirty Years to a Rolling Stone by Jo Wood [BUY] // Hey Jo: A Rock And Roll Fairytale by Jo Wood [BUY] // Memoirs of the Bright Side of the Moon by Ginger Gilmour [BUY] // The Last Four Years: A Rock Noir Romance by Annette Walter-Lax [BUY] // Jennifer Juniper: A Journey Beyond the Muse by Jenny Boyd [BUY]

Videos (special thanks to hornyheartsclub)

A Day with Frank Zappa, featuring Gail Zappa, Miss Lucy and Connie Gripp // Cynthia Plaster Caster talks about her Rock Scene // Behind Stage Doors, featuring Pamela Des Barres and Connie Hamzy // Do It For the Band: The Women of the Sunset Strip // Groupies, featuring Connie Hamzy and Jeannie Crane // Pamela Des Barres, animated short video by Documators // Peaches en Regalia (music video) by Frank Zappa, featuring the GTO’s // Secret Lives of Women - Groupies, featuring Patti Johnsen and Lexa Vonn

Websites

Cynthia Plaster Caster’s official website // Groupie Couture // GTO’s “Permanent Damage” tracklist, lyrics and personnel // Hollywood Diaries by Morgana Welch’s official website // Pamela Des Barres’ official website // Psycho Jello’s “The Wild West of the Early Internet: a look at late 1990s-early 2000s Anonymous Groupie Message Boards” // Star Magazine

Online articles

“Celebrating a Lifetime of Controversy with the World’s Most Famous Groupie” by Mish Way (Broadly) // “Chris O’Dell, super-groupie to the stars: My life of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” by Tom Leonard (Telegraph) // “Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons” by Jim Farber (The New York Times) // “Groupies Revisited: the women with triple-A access to the 60s” by Kathryn Bromwich (The Guardian) // “Guitar Gods” by Pamela Des Barres (Guitarplayer) // “Here Are The Groupies You Met In Rolling Stone’s Feb. 1969 Issue” by Jen Carlson (Gothamist) // “How to be a Groupie” by Caitlin Agnew (Fashion Magazine) // “Pamela Des Barres, The Ultimate Rock Groupie, Tells All” by Lizzie Crocker (The Daily Beast) // “Pamela Des Barres: Writing Coach and Living Legend” by Holly Cara Price (Huffington Post) // “Reconsidering the Rock Groupie” by Amanda Pretusich (The New Yorker) // “Tale of the babe of Aquarius” by Susannah Calahan (New York Post) // “Will the real Penny Lane please stand up?” by Anna Ammann and Ann Lasocki (Oregon Music News) // “Without You I’m Nothing” by Alexandra Molotkow (The Believer)

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