September 1988 Teen Life: Racism, Boarding School & Talking Toes

Jul 13, 2021, 09:00 AM

Sassy's first back-to-school issue makes a few major missteps: a feature called "Living With Racism" whose white author relentlessly others her interview subjects, all young women of color; and an imbecilic fiction story from premiere issue Justine Bateman harasser John Elder. But "Where The Boys Aren't," about the all-girl boarding school Emma Willard, leaves at least one of your co-hosts yearning for some single-sex scholastics. Then we go On The Road to Lexington, where Sassy is disabused of some of its hick stereotypes; get an It Happened To Me from a girl whose house was used as a Rain Man shooting location; hear What He Said about female athletes (and, as usual, wish we hadn't); and take a trip through the feelings being expressed in Stuff You Wrote. All this plus an itchy Body Talk and a typically squicky Help in our latest episode!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988

🎧 Spine Line + In Our Lives

🎧 Feature: Living With Racism

🎧 Feature: Where The Boys Aren’t

🎧 Fiction: The Talking Toes

🎧 On The Road: Lexington, Kentucky

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 Help

🎧 It Happened To Me: Tom Cruise Made a Movie at My House

🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think of Girls Who Are Jocks?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Girl School Daze

🎧 Ten Little Toe Coffins

🎧 Pam Never

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

πŸŒ€Β Dave overstated the death toll from hurricane Gilbert by a factor of 10 because he's a monster

πŸ’ΌΒ Nancy Toy on LinkedIn

🏫 Emma Willard School

πŸ’ŠΒ Inderal drug facts (including side effects)

πŸ‘–Β "What Your Skinny Jeans Are Really Doing To Your Vagina" on Self.com

🩸 "10 Facts About Toxic Shock Syndrome Every Tampon-Wearer Should Know" on Self.com

πŸ“°Β Pauline Ach at the Wooster Voice in 1989...

πŸ—žΒ ...and 1991

πŸ§€Β 1984 Velveeta Slices commercial starring Kirk Cameron and Jenny Lewis

🎧 The Midnight Miracle on Luminary