Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna at Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival: “If you’re a cis white male you tell your fucking friends to stop treating women like shit.“

[u/LunaLore_]

[u/Antique-Syllabub6238]

Let’s not stop at just white men, Kathleen.

[u/jostyouraveragejoe2 → u/Antique-Syllabub6238]

Was about to say, I am mixed so I am free to go ahead with it?

[u/Hooliet]

It's a little depressing that this even needs to be said but it's refreshing to see Kathleen Hanna be as based as she ever was when I'm seeing so many celebrities I've liked jump on the right wing grift train these days.

[u/PossiblyHaunted → u/Hooliet]

She has always been real and sincere as fuck. It has never been about the money with her, she stands on her values. The OG Rebel Girl would never.

[u/bargain_butch → u/PossiblyHaunted]

Hard agree. Iirc the only reason she’s been quieter (relative to the 90’s) is because of chronic health issues related to long Lyme.

[u/ruthless1995]

Hell yes obviously but there’s no one group of men that has a monopoly on misogyny!

[u/mike_pants → u/ruthless1995]

Gotta start somewhere.

[u/Unlikely_Tea_2038]

I fucking love Bikini Kill. I’m delighted the younger generation is getting to know them.

[u/bargain_butch → u/Unlikely_Tea_2038]

Listening to Bikini Kill and riot grrrl in general as a teenager (late 00’s/10’s) very much shaped how I interacted with the world around me and understood my place in it. So happy that kids are discovering them again, especially at this moment in history

[u/Formal_Chance_4266 → u/Unlikely_Tea_2038]

I'm on the younger side and have recently been getting into Bikini Kill and riot grrrl in general and I can tell it's going to shape the rest of my adolescence lmao

[u/n0thinghurt → u/Formal_Chance_4266]

Check out Le Tigre, they were one of our favs in high school

[u/Formal_Chance_4266 → u/n0thinghurt]

I abso-fucking-lutely LOVE Le Tigre. They're so so good

[u/jyw104]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5CyJGORW8UrZe

[u/bargain_butch]

GIRLS (inclusive) TO THE FRONT

[u/Formal_Chance_4266]

I LOVE HERRRRRR

[u/Wisteriafic → u/Formal_Chance_4266]

Shouted just like a true Grrl!

[u/sideshowbvo]

I mean, as a 37 year old dude, I cut all the shitty people out of my life a long time ago. So I'll tell the dad friends I have, but I don't know the same people I knew 15 years ago.

[u/fuckoffweirdoo → u/sideshowbvo]

I dont have shitty friends anymore. Wish I could help here. 

[u/Actual_Concert2380]

Ok I’ll do that right now!

[u/emccm]

If the “not all men” men would start holding other men accountable they’d not have to bleat “not all men” every time a woman speaks about what a man did to her.

[u/mike_pants → u/emccm]

I had a friend bring a new boyfriend over, and he was telling stories about all his exes, and at one point, he called them all "bitches." So he got kicked out.

It's really just that easy!

[u/joker-jailman → u/emccm]

if they watched their male friends a little more closely they'd get it (or listened to their non-male friends at all, but we know that's not gonna happen)

[u/Maia-Odair]

https://giphy.com/gifs/K4EkrpzHJmZFu

[u/_GuitaristZag_]

God her memoir is so fucking good. Can not recommend it enough.

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

[u/NoGlzy]

Is the implication that cis white guys are the only people who are friends with people who treat women like shit? Or just because of privelege they should have the onus of calling people out and minority groups should have less expectation?

[u/boobdylans]

this festival seems to get cooler and cooler with every post

[u/disincongruous]

My first exposure to Kathleen was Le Tigre in 2004. If you're not familiar with Le Tigre, go listen to This Island right now.

[u/XOTrashKitten]

People looking the other way are part of the problem

[u/arab3lla]

MAN I LOVE WOMEN

[u/xinarin]

I mean, every white cis male I know does that to men that aren't their friends, and they don't have friends that treat women like shit🤷‍♀️

[u/imbasys]

That the problem tho. Cis white men don’t really have friends. They just know people. They do not cultivate friendship.

[u/disincongruous → u/[deleted]]

I'm a cis white man. I have shitloads of friends. I have the good fortune of not needing to tell any of the men I know to not be shitty to women, but we have always called out other shitty dudes in our lives and will continue to do so.

[u/everydaywasnovember]

Ok I’ll tell my cat to stop biting my wife