Meet Serena Dank, an OG Karen who based ‘Mother and father of Punkers’ and appeared on the ’80s speak present circuit to warn mother and father concerning the corrupting affect of punk rock.
Within the period of Tipper Gore and the PMRC, heavy steel wasn’t the one style of music within the crosshairs of scared mother and father. Televised speak reveals usually showcased punk musicians and followers, together with child boomer mother and father who clutched their pearls over dyed hair and leather-based jackets.
For a few years, Serena Dank was on a mission to protect kids from punk tradition. She claimed to discipline cellphone calls from apprehensive mother and father every day whereas reuniting households with runaway punk children. Dank even carried out recon missions at punk reveals and bars, reporting again with tales too horrific for harmless ears.
“Once I walked in [to the bar] I used to be in a reasonably good temper,” Dank mentioned on an episode of Donahue. “Once I walked out, I used to be so indignant. What occurred was it was simply physique to physique and whereas I used to be simply standing there, I used to be simply innocently trying round, and I acquired beer shot in my face and obscenities.”
“Good!” one punk within the viewers reacted. He poignantly added, “She was there being a spectator and to cross judgement and we don’t need it. Keep away.”
Dank additionally appeared to view the Intercourse Pistols’ By no means Thoughts the Bollocks as a blueprint for the ideology of all punks. “The message of punk, numerous it, is there’s no future,” Dank mentioned on one other present. “We in all probability gained’t survive due to the nuclear bomb.”
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