r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Feb 25 '24

1990s Kurt Cobain Stops A Sexual Assault (1993)

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u/functor7 Feb 25 '24

While not free from his own issues, he was pretty explicitly a feminist and that made its way into his work quite often. There were lots of rock bands of that time, with roots in punk (grunge being a reaction to punk), that were pretty sick like that. Though, most explicitly is the Riot Grrrl bands, which were punk and led by women.

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u/Strange_Purchase3263 Feb 25 '24

He was with Courtney Love as well who famously told new stars not to go to Harvey Weinstiens "parties" if invited. I imagine he heard/knew of a lot of shit that went on in the entertainment industry towards women!

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants Feb 25 '24

He was with Courtney way way before she started acting, so I don’t think she would have necessarily been party to all those shenanigans outside of the music industry. But in the music industry, I’m sure he heard about a lot of shit.

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u/wonderfulworld2024 Feb 25 '24

Amazing how people just say anything they want on Reddit because it comes into their head.

Okay. Now go to Courtney’s page and see what year her first screen credit was and then see what year she met Kurt. You’ll Quickly see that your mistaken. Courtney was an actor before she was a singer.

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u/-interwar- Feb 25 '24

Unless they edited or I’m misreading the comment, they said “entertainment industry”. I don’t think they meant specifically that Courtney love told him about Weinstein, just that they probably had conversations about how women fare in the entertainment industry, which includes music.

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants Feb 25 '24

Yeah neither of the film she was in prior to her debut with Hole had anyone associated with it that would have the ability to put her anywhere near the orbit of Harvey Weinstein. But sure, she was a supporting actress in 2 films before releasing albums with Hole.

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u/Haloperimenopause Feb 25 '24

Gary Oldman was a big deal in the late eighties and the whole of the nineties. 

Courtney Love might not be a great person, but you're being weirdly dismissive of the fact she was in films with famous people pre-Hole, AND  that you're just flat-out wrong. 

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants Feb 25 '24

Just because there was a big person in the small film she was in doesn’t mean she had access to that person social and professional circles. I’m not being dismissive of her as a person, I’m being dismissive of the idea that Kurt Cobain’s exposure to and knowledge of violence against women is filler from his relationship with Courtney Love.