A Raw Youth

[3] "Shave the Pride" originated as a diatribe against Gender Bender's bearded lover hiding behind "masses of hair".

After rewrites, the song's "outrage and frustration" became directed against society's "unwillingess to view all perceptions of [a] story... hiding behind the mass media.

[5] "Sold Less Than Gold" was partially inspired by Gender Bender's trip to Iran.

"[3] It's about "women (...) sold into marriages or into sex slavery and how resilient their spirits are.”[6] "The Hitch Hiker" plays out a call-and-response between a hitchhiker and the man who picks her up.

[8] Consequence of Sound's Karen Gwee wrote that the album "marks Le Butcherettes’ triumphant entrance to the mainstream rock arena, accomplished with no compromise to their identity.