The world viewing women as inferior to their male counterparts is nothing new. Sadly, misogyny is still a rampant force within music, and often seeks to diminish, discredit or completely ignore the efforts of female or non-binary musicians. While most, if not all, of these performers will have experienced this unfair reality to some degree, Courtney Love is one individual who has certainly received an appalling share of it, with a common thread of this hatred stemming from her widowhood to Kurt Cobain.
One particularly harsh example of this treatment took form during an 1998 interview with Howard Stern, where Love was questioned by a disgruntled Nirvana fan on air over her alleged "stealing" of Cobain's lyrics after his death. In other words, the caller refused to believe that Love wrote her own lyrics.
