Taking sides: Punk Girls vs Beatle Boys

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When the beatles were big in the early sixties, the majority of their fans were girls. Nowadays, they are beloved mostly by boys. Or, Men.

When Punk was big in the mid seventies, the majority of the fans were boys. Nowadays, the music and fashions are beloved mostly by girls.

What can yer say?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Alice (5) was going through the "littl bratz" punk clothes in Woolworths going "That's not punk, no safety pin. Oh, that is. That's not. nor that. That is..." and so on...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

"When Punk was big in the mid seventies, the majority of the fans were boys."

True, but there were still proportionally (cf: their male counterparts) far, far more punkettes than there were teddy girls, modettes, skinettes, headbangerettes, or indeed anything-else-you-might-care-to-mentionettes.

I rather suspect that a major part of the issue was that identifying yourself with any youth culture movement in those days was a far more serious, and infinitely more dangerous, undertaking.

Oh and you certainly couldn't buy "punk" clothes in Woolworths.... well, except those dayglo "jelly" sandals, which were great with contrasting fluorescent teddy-boy socks!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

When Punk was big in the mid seventies, the majority of the fans were boys.

My big sister was one! A punk, that is, not a boy...

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

"Alice (5) was going through the "littl bratz" punk clothes in Woolworths going "That's not punk, no safety pin. Oh, that is. That's not. nor that. That is..." and so on..."

Please tell Alice with my compliments that you're supposed to put the safety pins in yourself - if the manufacturer puts the safety pin in for you, it ain't punk.

Are Woolies still sealing all their copies of Never Mind The Bollocks in brown paper bags? Bless 'em.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Nowadays, the music and fashions are beloved mostly by girls.

Peer at them for long enough and you'll see a lot of them are actually boys

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Have you been also been finding that they play music too loud in pubs (besides which, most of it's rubbish and you can't hear the words) and that the policmen are looking younger and younger these days?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I actually saw a foetus in a police uniform outside the Holborn Tube station this morning!

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Parkies and Janitors are getting younger, I tell you that much!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Times change.

Although this hasn't...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:06 (seventeen years ago)

always go straight for the vagina

― straightola, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

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