"I like these girls."
March 1, 2018 5:30 AM   Subscribe

 
Whoa, this is really interesting. Thanks for posting!
posted by everybody had matching towels at 6:32 AM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]


If any of this speculation is valid, then it is up to feminism to grow, to take on what the Spice Girls, and women like them, are saying, and to do what feminism has always done in England, to keep on transforming society as society is best transformed, with lightness and in joy.
God, I miss Kathy Acker (she died that very year, dammit). For a long time it made me happy that Blood and Guts in High School was the first book on my fiction bookcase, and I still look askance at Ibrahim Abdel Maged's The Other Place and wonder if I should file it under M and pretend I don't know how Arabic names work. Thanks for the post!
posted by languagehat at 8:11 AM on March 1, 2018 [5 favorites]


This is great: it took a while for me to really understand that the text in the first link is Kathy Acker’s text. Because it is so so so pedestrian and clean and not like her novels (as I remember them) at all at all at all.
Who’s the Kathy Acker of right now?
posted by From Bklyn at 8:48 AM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]


“I want to own restaurants,” Victoria takes the lead. She wears a skin-tight designer outfit, perfectly positioned Wonderbra and heels seemingly too high to walk on. Unlike the other girls, she never lets her mask break open. “The entrepreneur,” remarks Mel B fondly.

“Restaurants and art,” Victoria continues. “I’ve always liked art. Ever since I was...” She pauses. “And I’d like a nice big house, and to fill it with, you know...”


Nice to see that she turned out as expected.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 9:02 AM on March 1, 2018 [2 favorites]


Very interesting - never would have guessed there'd been a short circuit between what I was guiltily flipping through and what I'd never have admitted listening to...

(Why does one of the people in the podcast repeatedly pronounce her name Aycker?)
posted by progosk at 9:11 AM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]


I worked for Galoob Toys when the Spice Girls were big--wrote packaging copy for the dolls that we made (the ones pictured in the article). As "research" I had to attend a concert--I was not the demographics! Young tween girls and their fathers mostly. However, the concert was a kick--the performance was high-energy and fun. I had samples of the dolls for a while, however, I did a big purge before a move and got rid of all my toy samples. This was a great story.
posted by agatha_magatha at 11:41 AM on March 1, 2018 [2 favorites]


If you wanna be my lover / ya gotta get with Plato's Symposium
posted by not_on_display at 8:36 PM on March 3, 2018 [3 favorites]


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