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Article Evaluation The Wikipedia article for the punk rock feminist movement Riot Grrrl, is very clear on providing readers with sufficient information to understand why this particular movement was so revolutionary. The article begins by introducing a broad background of what Riot Grrrl stands for and then proceeds by giving information about its origins, development, the punk bands involved, and the movement’s critiques. As one reads through the article, one might come to the conclusion that the Wikipedians who edited the article were leaning more towards a feministic perspective. However, this is not the case. Those who edited the Riot Grrrl article are simply stating facts and real life situations that actually occurred to those people involved in this movement. So it is not a matter of picking a side, it is simply stating reality. One important concept the article mentions but could potentially be expanded a bit more on is the huge impact the Riot Grrrl movement had on young women all around the world. A minor critique of this article is the fact that a few of the facts provided include a “citation needed” link, meaning there is no reliable source to verify the facts. Wikipedia rates this article as a B-class, which means that there is still room for a few modifications. The Riot Grrrl movement relates to various topics we have discussed in class. For one, Riot Grrrl encourages women to break though the stereotypical gender roles. We have discussed how men are portrayed as strong, destructive, and dominant while women are portrayed as kind, caring, and submissive. Riot Grrrl has motivated young women to respond to the unfair gender issues in an aggressive manner. Women that performed in punk bands that were influenced by Riot Grrrl performed by yelling into the microphones with so much passion and anger and going wild on stage. This movement also differs to what we have discussed in class about men in sciences intimidating women and women being afraid of having their voice heard. Women involved with Riot Grrrl were not intimidated by what men had to say about their opinions. These women shared stories about their horrible experiences, which included topics such as rape, domestic violence, and racism, through poetry, song writing, and publicized zines. We have also discussed in class the topic of how women were so intimated by men in science that instead of saying their ideas and opinions out loud, they would instead write them down in books. The Riot Grrrl movement is what influenced the idea of publishing your own magazines, which are called zines. People involved with Riot Grrrl knew that no major magazine company would allow them to publish their ideas and perspectives onto paper, so they decided to create their own type of propaganda to help get the word out. In these zines, people were free to put whatever they wanted to, pictures, poems, stories, basically anything at all just as long as it had something to do with the motives behind Riot Grrrl. Evenezia (talk) 21:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)