March 1990 Teen Life: One-Night Stands, Pick-Up Lines & Mother Teresa

Sassy embarks upon its third year with a fun, kicky feature on a girl whose parents committed her to a mental institution for what sure seem like spurious reasons. Christina gets heteronormative about one-night-stands, starting with the assumption that you, a girl, might not want to have one. A list of the 20 coolest women hasn't aged well the whole way through (although "Mom" probably still rocks). All this plus another weird short story, Young MC abandoning his whole ethos to pretend he doesn't use pick-up lines, all the ginseng news you can handle, and much much more!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is March 1990

🎧 Spine Line

🎧 Feature: She’s Not Crazy

🎧 Feature: One-Night Stand Prevention Kit

🎧 Feature: Your (And Our) 20 Coolest Women Ever

🎧 Fiction: Maury The Mouse

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 What He Said: Do You Use Pick-Up Lines?

🎧 Help

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

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

🔦 "Senators launch investigation into child abuse allegations at treatment facilities" at NBCNews.com

👹 “I Want To Disown My Demonic Daughter” at Slate’s Care And Feeding (subscription required)

👩‍👧 "Jodie Foster on her 'interesting and fraught' relationship with her mother and being the breadwinner from age SEVEN" on DailyMail.co.uk

💸 "N.Y. Charity Scandal Leads to Indictments" at LATimes.com

📸 Sylvia Plachy on Wikipedia

💉 "How HGH cheats hit the end of the line" at TheGuardian.com

🏛️ "Building dedicated to Barbara Jordan in the Texas Capitol Complex" at KVUE.com

🤠 Barbara Jordan at the Texas State Historical Association

😇 "Why Mother Teresa is still no saint to many of her critics" at WashingtonPost.com

🐭 The Maury Chronicles on Amazon

🤧 "6 Strange Dangers of Blowing Your Nose Too Hard" on GetCareFreeMD.com

🍺 "11 Revelations from the Live 'Cheers' Reunion with Ted Danson, George Wendt, and John Ratzenberger" at Cracked.com

😭 "'Simpsons' Showrunner Matt Selman Has Read Your Mean Tweets" at Cracked.com

🤬 WGA Contract 2023