{"id":138,"date":"2020-08-28T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguitar.rocks\/?p=138"},"modified":"2020-08-28T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:15:00","slug":"mel-c-men-were-too-scared-to-sexually-harass-the-spice-girls-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Mel C: ‘Men were too scared to sexually harass the Spice Girls’ – Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Melanie Chisholm has commented that the Spice Girls never encountered sexual harassment because men were ‘petrified’ of them.<\/p>\n

The singer, dubbed Sporty Spice, insisted she and her bandmates had such a ‘girl power’ presence, that men wouldn’t dare to say anything off-colour in their presence – sparing them from inappropriate behaviour. <\/p>\n

“It’s funny because I get asked about the Me Too movement a lot… and if I’ve ever experienced anything, and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ No one would come near the Spice Girls because they were petrified by us,” Mel C told Jessie Ware during an appearance on her Table Manners podcast. <\/p>\n

The 46-year-old said she believes the fact they appeared to be women taking care of one another was a major factor in why they were left alone.<\/p>\n

“There are some vulnerable people in the Spice Girls, but you knew if you mess with one of them, you would have to deal with the other four,” she suggested.<\/p>\n

However, the Wannabe hitmakers did experience their share of sexism, which only made them more determined to succeed. <\/p>\n

“We started talking about girl power because we experienced sexism in the industry,” Mel C recalled, telling listeners that the Spice Girls were told: ‘Girl bands don’t sell records, you can’t be on the cover of magazines because girls buy records by boys’.<\/p>\n

Recollecting the treatment, Mel C exclaimed: “We were like, ‘Seriously?’ Don’t say that to the Spice Girls, that’s like red rag to a bull.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Melanie Chisholm has commented that the Spice Girls never encountered sexual harassment because men were ‘petrified’ of them. The singer, dubbed Sporty Spice, insisted she and her bandmates had such a ‘girl power’ presence, that men wouldn’t dare to say anything off-colour in their presence – sparing them from inappropriate behaviour. “It’s funny because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,67,68,10,79,17,26,18,35,58,55,48,29,72,43,82,93,92,46,20,74,83,13,63,78,88,89,38,66,71,59,87,80,141,438,14,30,21,11,37,25,34,70,40,86,52,41,434,433,435,12,45,85,62,103,8,9,32,91,44,7,56,31,42,16,47,64,54,73,24,77,28,22,84,50,15,436,27,437,90,69,51,23,140,57,61,60,53,81,65,49,36,33,19,75,76],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-nsync","tag-67","tag-albums","tag-alternative","tag-angst","tag-artists","tag-ash","tag-audio","tag-backstreet-boys","tag-beatles","tag-beck","tag-blink-182","tag-blur","tag-books","tag-britney-spears","tag-buy-tickets","tag-cd","tag-cds","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-classic","tag-competitions","tag-concerts","tag-dance","tag-david-bowie","tag-e-cards","tag-e-mail","tag-email","tag-eminem","tag-fifty","tag-films","tag-foo-fighters","tag-free","tag-gigs","tag-girls","tag-harass","tag-hardcore","tag-hendrix","tag-hip-hop","tag-indie","tag-korn","tag-lennon","tag-limp-bizkit","tag-live","tag-madonna","tag-magazine","tag-manics","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-mel","tag-mel-c-men-were-too-scared-to-sexually-harass-the-spice-girls-music","tag-men","tag-metal","tag-metallica","tag-microsoft-media-player","tag-moby","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-music-news-reviews","tag-muzik","tag-my","tag-nelly","tag-news","tag-nirvana","tag-oasis","tag-pearl-jam","tag-pop","tag-prince","tag-prodigy","tag-pulp","tag-quotes","tag-rb","tag-radio","tag-radiohead","tag-rap","tag-real-audio","tag-rem","tag-rock","tag-scared","tag-sex-pistols","tag-sexually","tag-shop","tag-singles","tag-smashing-pumpkins","tag-soul","tag-spice","tag-stereophonics","tag-stone-roses","tag-suede","tag-supergrass","tag-tickets","tag-top","tag-travis","tag-u2","tag-underworld","tag-video","tag-webcasts","tag-webchats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}