Oh yeah, I don't disagree with you there. And also, Roth going on about how it was so artistically freeing made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to throw up, because SERIOUSLY. SERIOUSLY? OH MY ACTUAL GOD. (Pro-est of tips, Eli, you don't get to co-opt terminology from third-wave feminism when you still seem to have trouble seeing women as people.) And I mean, yeah, ONTD has been referring to him as their "rebound skank" (after whatever went down with ASkars, which I'm not clear on?), but you're right that the issue is very different.

And oh man, the hairband/Sunset Strip scene is actually where I started getting weirdly obsessed with groupie culture. That whole thing is so bizarre. There used to be this online magazine: Metal Sludge? And it had this crazy letter column called "Donna's Ho Bag"? and it was seriously ridiculous. And mostly made up of everybody making fun of the guys they slept with. Except Rikki Rocket, of whom everyone was weirdly fond.

And vaguely on topic, but not entirely about groupie culture, but definitely where it and fangirl culture collides, have you ever read Caroline Sullivan's Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair With The Bay City Rollers? It is seriously kind of amazing.