According to Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald, the term was coined as a joke by Thurston Moore during the early 1990s to describe a wave of loud and aggressive female fronted bands that was occurring at the time.
Thurston Moore allegedly coined the term in the early 1990s as a lighthearted remark to characterize a wave of intense and confrontational female-led groups that were gaining popularity at the time, according to Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald.