soren wrote:Maybe they needed the money to buy rifles, assemble car bombs, or do some sort of cryptological research?
I think you're giving the anarchist chicks way too much credit. For the most part, these are girls that are the daughters of dentists and mortgage brokers who got a bit rebellious in their late-teens, college-aged years. Maybe they got into drugs a little and started listening to the silly teachings of communists and environmental nutjobs.
Reluctant to enter adulthood, they went off into their own coccoon of arrested adolescence and drifted, one way or the other, into the anarchist "movement." They liked the ambiguous fuck-you to the "establishment" and the rather undemanding hours of work. They could have just as easily become hairy-legged backpackers or black lipstick wearing art-school girls (assuming they had the motivation). And by the time they're thirty they'll start to drift back toward the mainstream.
They'll keep the stud in their nose for a few years for nostaligic purposes. The tattoo of the hammer and sickle won't go away though, and will be quite the conversation piece at cocktail parties at the Country Club with their investment banker husband in fifteen years.