What makes Green Day think four men are the perfect authors for a book about female empowerment?

The three washed-up male punks and cartoonist Frank Caruso have struck a bum note in trying to celebrate the rebellious woman

Greta Thunberg, Emma González, Amandla Stenberg? Step aside, dilettantes. The new voice of female activism is here, and she is a “natural disaster”, a “hurricane in the heart of the devastation”, “a runaway of the establishment incorporated”. She is also fictional, dreamed up by four men: punk band Green Day and cartoonist Frank Caruso.

Caruso has adapted Green Day’s 2009 song, Last of the American Girls, into a graphic novel of the same name, billed as “an inspiring homage [to] and handbook for the rebellious – every woman who refuses to capitulate”. Shall we play Feminist Press Release Bingo? It’s a “rallying cry for rebel girls”, a tribute to “female empowerment”. This “infectious spirit” has, of course, “never been more relevant”.

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