Ladies, Women, and Girls
 

THEY TOLD US WE WERE GIRLS/HOW WE TALK, DRESS, LOOK, AND CRY/THEY TOLD US WE WERE GIRLS/SO WE CLAIMED OUR FEMALE LIVES/NOW THEY TELL US WE AREN'T GIRLS/OUR FEMININITY DOESN'T FIT/WE'RE FUCKING FUTURE GIRLS LIVING OUTSIDE SOCIETY'S SHIT!

WE'RE FROM THE FUTURE/NOT FROM THE PAST/WE LIVE OUR OWN WAY NOT UP HISTORY'S ASS/WON'T REENACT WON'T PERFORM THEIR HARDCORE/THE STRAIGHT-BOY CANNON IS A ROYAL BORE/THE FUTURE/FAGGOTS AND FEMMES!/THE FUTURE/NOT JUST ANY OUTCASTS/GIRLS/LIVING/OUTSIDE/SOCIETY'S/SHIT!/WHAT'S THE POINT IN SUCKING THEM OFF/TRENDY MUTANT SKINHEADS CAN JERK THEMSELVES OFF/WE DON'T NEED VALIDATION FROM THEM/THEY THINK THEY'RE THE SHIT BUT THEY CAN'T HANDLE HARD FEMMES/THE FUTURE/FAGGOTS AND FEMMES/THE FUTURE/NOT JUST ANY OUTCASTS

Another badass lady in the music world (though the band, sadly, broke up) is surely Otep.





and a personal favorite...

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/artic...s-riot-ignored

"I was just like, 'I have to survive. I have to defend myself.' Riot Grrrl felt really playful, and I wasn't playing," Brown said, again underscoring the friction between being forced to identify as black before being allowed to identify as a woman."

You WILL like this. Promise.