hearing them say "you know... SEX" makes me think of my friend's mom, a missionary lady, who upon being asked by her doctor what kind of sex she had regularly said, "you know, the MARRIED kind!"

I dunno about you, Slut Machine, but for me, fixing a car and giving my friend an abortion sounds like all sorts of fun. Feminist fun.

Where's the sense of humour when it comes to the Yale dicks? That action is doing nothing for our image, IMO.

Am I missing something? Is 'slut' a harsher word in the US?

Like a fun nightclub?

Oh, that made me smile. You know that the "giving abortions" part was some kind of lyrical compromise because someone thought that "having abortions" didn't sound empowered enough... like, "Fuck that, I want to GIVE abortions!" Then like, "Oh Mary Agnes, you know that's not really true!" "Well it SHOULD be!"

My mom and her friends all have a big old streak of this type of feminism in them. I have a soft spot.

Thanks for pointing us out to this band, SM. As a diehard Slits fan I ought to take a listen.

"Pointing this band out to us..." Ugh, long day at work.

Actually, these ladies weren't kidding about the giving abortions part.
The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band were part of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - which included Jane - an underground abortion referral group who later learned to perform abortions themselves.
Yay for DIY radical feminists!

Oh nostalgia, for the days of "Off Our Backs" and Holly Near. Being a Consistent Life Ethic type in my old age I'd rather not give my sisters abortions, but I certainly am happy I am living single by choice and have a job that isn't shit. Does it make me bad that I like doing volunteer work though?

Thanks for the time-warp though....

@filleunique: What gets me about that prank isn't that "slut" is such a bad word- and it isn't a nice one, usually- it's that it wasn't even funny. Even my frat-boy roommate, when I told him about it, was like, "Dude, that's the best they could come up with? What a bunch of limp dicks. It'll sue some creativity into 'em."

pssst: 35th anniversary of RvW. Not 25th. (because I love, not because I'm a compulsive copyeditor.... right.)

Um, how do I get a copy of this album? That's all I want to know.

OK, I have this on vinyl, and I have to point out that really, only the New Haven band is the musical disaster, because the Chicago Womens Liberation Rock Band kind of rules. "Secretary" is a total jam! It's about the working sister! She wears pants to work! It goes on for ten minutes and you resist at first but THEN YOU ARE MOVED.

That was flippin' awesome. I laughed MAO with the abortion song. These ladies certainly were no Amy Winehouse. May-be she can sing the Abortion Song at the Grammys....sweet.

Ahem... some of the CWLU members actually DID give abortions...in an underground feminist group named " Jane". I know cause I made a film about it- for PBS. Yeehaw!

@LoMorale: Probably more related to the movement to teach menstrual extraction methods to groups of women as opposed to "having" abortions done by THE MAN.

That song sounds like something that should've been on "3-2-1 Contact"

My offer to give you an abortion at the office remains on the table dude.

I feel like I should sit my little sister down with this album as required listening. She might prefer it to me ranting at her about how she's more than just her boyfriend's playtoy.

i love this album! thanks so much for posting this.

Screw the remixes- Le Tigre could cover the fuck out of these songs. (And then they'd be off hiatus, yay!)

funniest line of the night: "abortions safe and legal."

Thanks for the new facebook quote.

@lookyloo: Generally at Yale, they beat the creativity out of you by your freshman year-- which is not to excuse those frat morons. The (usually lethargic) Women's Center has actually been doing things of late, which might have inspired their little bright idea. The only notable feature of that frat is that they back up to a Popeye's Chicken; a Popeye's Chicken where they sell great bootleg albums outside on sketchy, spindly tables-- I sure wish they had this one!

I prefer Verucca Salt's cover of Bodies by the Sex Pistols, but you're right, this song does beg to be sung "in the style of".
New party-karaoke game!

I like how the abortion song cops the bassline riff from "Lady Madonna," which, when you come to think of it, is basically a song about the aftermath of unwanted pregnancies ("Baby at your breast, wonder how you manage to feed the rest").

People also thought the Black Panthers were angry and humorless, but it doesn't mean that they weren't entirely neccessary to the progress of our culture. I hate when people shy away from being called "angry," "serious," "humorless," "bitchy." There are plenty of reasons for feeling that way (esp after reading all these Roe v Wade posts and seeing how many steps back we've taken) - bitch on.

Because nothing says "abortion is our right" quite like a Squidward-level clarinet solo.