Bratmobile and the Donnas are two very similar girl bands that share a similar background. So similar they played gigs together when they were fresh-faced and hot and weren't played on any radio station that celebrated 'Rocktober.'

Bratmobile, to the best of my knowledge, still hasn't been played by a radio station that celebrates 'Rocktober.'

I really like Bratmobile a lot. They are cool and have nice hair. They have lyrics like 'all the fucken boys in the fucken bands/just shut up and get outta my car.' I like that because I'm so sick of boys and guitars I could punch someone. In fact, I think I might next time the urge strikes.

I don't like The Donnas at all. They are vapid. Instead of telling the boys in the band to go fuck themselves they wheedle for them to 'take me to the backseat.' Ignoring the fact that making out in the backseat is awkward and wrong, this is queasily mainstream.

The Donnas have unicorns and fluoro colours in their music videos, the same kind of unicorns and fluoro colours that might be used to sell tampons or deodorant to impressionable teenage girls.

I haven't seen a Bratmobile video clip, but I did once drive through the darkened streets of a small Californian town with my friend Solana rockin' out old school while we talked about abortion laws in the US, so that could be their video.

My question is, why are the Donnas easily found in the large discount music emporium, and Bratmobile are not? I know Bratmobile aren't together any more, but their worthy contemporaries Bikini Kill still have something of a following.

I don't get it. This world is fucked.