Definition of Grrl for Joe:

There's Grrl = online woman
and then there's grrrl = riot grrrl feminist

Riot Grrrl didn't lose it's 'R' along the way. Grrrl will always refer to the Riot Grrrl movement, but a lot of journalists reporting about the music and culture dropped the R out of laziness, or just didn't do their research I suppose.

There is a Riotgrrl Web site -- but they don't have much to do with the actual Riot Grrrl movement.

As for Grrl, well I can say with some knowledge that originally this was coined to mean a girl who uses computers and the Net a lot. I got the Grrl.com domain way back in 1996 when the word was still new and no one was really using it to mean anything. I tried to trademark it so some lawyers like MTV or Tampax wouldn't try to snag it for a commercial usage, but alas by the time all my legal paperwork was done and all the fees were paid, Grrl became a common use word. Which in a way I'm glad. Hopefully Webster's dictionary will add it to the new word list on of these days! ;-)

So perhaps Grrl means so many different things now that punk bands, hackers, zinesters and artists all use it to mean something different.

Hopefully that answers your question to some degree, even though basically the definition of Grrl is a matter of opinion. ;-)