L7 returns to its 'menace with a wink and a nod' ways
As she prepared to go onstage one night in Australia in the early 1990s, L7 frontwoman Donita Sparks heard a concert promoter introduce her band by describing their bodies in belittling language that can't be printed here.
"Look, the #MeToo thing - for me it's like #WhoHasn't?" Sparks, 56, said recently of the sexist harassment she and her bandmates endured for years as one of the very few all-female bands in the male-dominated grunge scene. But because there were four of them, Sparks quickly pointed out, "I don't think any of us ever felt in danger" of the type of physical assault that movement has brought to light.
"Men were kind of scared of us," she said proudly.
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