For those who don’t know The Green Left is a newspaper which is what it says it is. Anyway I remember reading this article when it came out some years ago. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/14296 She says they have plastic smiles. In this Youtube video Geri Halliwell has smile that could not have been faked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYt7rlMN1iU"]Spice Girls Brit Awards 1997 - YouTube Maybe it is not a very hippy thing to say but each of those Spice girls would have made more money than the writer of the article would ever hope to do or I could ever hope to do. All the same it is quite a polished piece of writing.
I'm not sure what your point is. I think the article has a good point, but I also don't think that the Spice Girls are really a big deal. What she's doing is using the popularity of the Spice Girls to bring attention to real feminism and women's issues. The Spice Girls were, well, a group of women who were outspoken about expressing yourself. That's not really feminism, but it did give some empowerment to young girls. I'm not sure we can really make a comparison between how much money either the writer or the Spice Girls could have made. I mean their money is split between the 5 of them, plus managers, songwriters, musicians, producers, etc. with a lot of overhead. This particular writer, I know nothing about but the overhead of being a writer is not nearly as much as being huge musicians, and there's only a few people to pay as middle men or women. I don't think she's really hating on the Spice Girls, more using them as a way of clarifying the real issues and helping to define feminism in a time where I guess some people were explaining the more surface level issues that the Spice Girls focused on...as the definition of feminist values and issues.
