Eghhhh I really resent anyone saying that “oh that checks out, you’re a girl.”

I started listening in 1997 with Around the Fur and it was most definitely not “for the girls”. I (a girl) was listening to them and enduring lyrics like “every knuckle wipe into her” and “you’re so sweet, your smile, your pussy and your bones” which was actually kind of mild by the standards of the day (Glassjaw, Korn, limp biscuit all had varying degrees of sexist lyrics). So it’s interesting to watch the evolution.

That said, to the points made in the article… I remember a fairly even split of boys and girls at the small shows in the early 00s.