Someone who actually spends a lot of time at this camp said on August 19, 2008:
A few things:
-Rock n Roll Camp For Girls is an amazing, life changing nonprofit organization, mostly run by volunteers, committed to empowering girls. It's broke, it's not that organized, but it's amazing at what it does.
-On the first day, all the girls get a swag bag. None of them are quite the same, they're pretty much of stuff that gets donated to the camp. The Bikini Kill cassette was not part of any "curriculum." It was thrown in the bag without much thought, which was probably a mistake. The girl didn't have an opportunity to listen to the cassette at the camp, so of course the mom had an opportunity to look at it first, and she did, and she decided it wasn't appropriate for her kid. Seems pretty reasonable.
-A lot of the songs on that tape wouldn't have been played publicly for the girls at camp-- they don't play explicit stuff during morning assembly or anything. The worst I've heard is "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre which has the word "fucking" in it, and it's not even in a sexual sense.
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Someone who actually spends a lot of time at this camp said on August 19, 2008:
A few things:
-Rock n Roll Camp For Girls is an amazing, life changing nonprofit organization, mostly run by volunteers, committed to empowering girls. It's broke, it's not that organized, but it's amazing at what it does.
-On the first day, all the girls get a swag bag. None of them are quite the same, they're pretty much of stuff that gets donated to the camp. The Bikini Kill cassette was not part of any "curriculum." It was thrown in the bag without much thought, which was probably a mistake. The girl didn't have an opportunity to listen to the cassette at the camp, so of course the mom had an opportunity to look at it first, and she did, and she decided it wasn't appropriate for her kid. Seems pretty reasonable.
-A lot of the songs on that tape wouldn't have been played publicly for the girls at camp-- they don't play explicit stuff during morning assembly or anything. The worst I've heard is "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre which has the word "fucking" in it, and it's not even in a sexual sense.