“I am shocked that people are still shocked.” That's Peaches on the line from New Orleans, referring to her inability to crack mainstream television. Try as she might, Conan O'Brien and David Letterman just won't touch the electro-rock potty mouth. “It's like they have this fear that I'm going to show up with a dildo and sing 'Fatherfucker' right away or something. It's really ridiculous, considering what other artists have done in the past.”

Getting a break on late-night TV is just one of her many goals. Her main mission is to continue to even out the playing field when it comes to sexually demeaning lyrical content. For every bitch, ho, and junk-in-your-trunk reference her male counterparts throw out, she hits back with dick-slapping rhymes of her own. And her third album, Impeach My Bush, is no exception.

The best example of this tit-for-tat approach to feminism is the throbbing club number “Tent in Your Pants,” in which Peaches points out: “Tent's so big in your pants, baby/I'm gonna bring my friends for a dance, baby”. This sweet little ditty is meant to be a female-friendly alternative to Neptunes/Busta Rhymes' misogynistic “Light Your Ass on Fire”, in which Busta belts out “Shit so big just put the club in yo ass/Prep the H2 park it right in front of yo ass”. By comparison, Busta goes places that not even foul-mouthed, fist-fucking Peaches can go. But that doesn't seem to faze the Toronto-born Berliner.

“I feel pretty close to achieving my goal to balance out what's written in music between men and women,” she says, “but it's not really up to me. It's up to the public at this point to accept what I'm doing and place it up there with what any other dirty rock 'n' roller or rapper is doing.”

Until that day, she can take solace in knowing that she has the support of her peers, many of whom lend a helping hand on Impeach My Bush. Josh Homme and Feist lend their vocals on “Give 'Er,” a digi-and-dirty nod to Canadian culture. Drummer Samantha Maloney (Hole, Eagles of Death Metal) keeps the beat on several tracks. And Joan Jett, who lent a sample of “Bad Reputation” to Peaches's second LP, Fatherfucker, is featured prominently on the raucous rocker “You Love It”.

“She always said that Fatherfucker was the album she wishes she could have made 30 years ago,” Peaches says. “She was really a fan of it. She came to shows and sang along. So when she heard that I was making an album in L.A., she called me up and came to visit””it was on her birthday””and she liked this one particular song and decided to play and sing on it.”

And how does it make the princess of pussy power feel to be praised by the original sausage-party crasher?

“Pretty damn good.”

Peaches plays the Commodore next Thursday (August 10).