People didn’t like that, and you got conspiracy theories ranging from “ Kurt wrote all her songs” to “ she had him killed“. She’s loud, sexual, opinionated, contradictory, aggressive-all things society teaches women not to be. She loved Kurt (just how much is clearly apparent in these pages), but she refused to be defined through their relationship, to be nothing more than a chapter in his tragically short life. It dawned on me that the public likes to crucify Courtney for the same traits that Kurt is venerated for, and that this was rooted in sexism, and her refusal to be reduced to the rockstar’s wife, and later the grieving widow. I realized many years later that my impression of her was formed exclusively on her lyrics, which I loved, and what I read about her in the media, which I didn’t much care for. I related to Hole with a fierceness that my love for Nirvana never reached-and yet Courtney always seemed so difficult to like. My relationship with Courtney Love and Hole is as old as my relationship with Nirvana, but much more complicated. Title: Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
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