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"content": "\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/tumblr_mao02rmrs81qapa5ro1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2894\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tumblr_mao02rmRs81qapa5ro1_500.png\" alt=\"Poor Vivian in "Slums of Beverly Hills" didn't like her boobs, either.\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tumblr_mao02rmRs81qapa5ro1_500.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tumblr_mao02rmRs81qapa5ro1_500-400x224.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poor Vivian in \"The Slums of Beverly Hills\" didn't like her boobs, either.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. The Age of Boob Enlightenment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having big boobs is humiliating. If you don’t believe me, you’ve probably never had them. Big boobs get in the way, they make your clothes fit weird and worst of all, they draw a lot of the wrong kind of attention for a young girl. Just because they’re there, people assume you put them out there on purpose as an invitation for commentary. Just try wearing a bathing suit in public and not getting stares. Worse yet, try running. \u003ca title=\"art film\" href=\"http://www.moholyground.org/feature.htm#haussman\" target=\"_blank\">(For fun, watch gravity meet boobs in this art video, but be warned, there's nudity- duh).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Compared to the busty babes of the '50s who would have, like in a bank robbery, taken the boobs and ran (literally), while I was growing up Heroin Chic was flaunting those sad, black and white haute junkies in my face and my rapidly growing boobs and I hated it. I did what I could to deal with the boobs. I wore two bras at all times. I wore a Condoleezza Rice-conservative bathing suit. I avoided construction sites. Then my mom came home one day and told me she was tired of her boobs that having kids had warped and wrangled. Well, I don’t think she said it like that- she said after every kid, they had shrunk and shifted a little lower. After kid four, she was down to low-hanging fruit. Ba dum bum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>2. Barbie and Me \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2893\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/barbie_corvette/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2893\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Barbie_Corvette-200x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Barbie and her corvette From:http://coldfusion-guy.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-chinese-understand-vacuousness-of.html\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbie's corvette\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By this point in my life, at age 21 I had chosen other ways to control my image. To my mother’s dismay, I had tattooed large portions of my body. In doing this, I felt I could reclaim some lost power. I felt stronger, more aggressive, and people stared because of how I had \u003cem>chosen\u003c/em> to look. I wasn’t the inadequate, disrespected, slutty dumb girl the boobs turned me into. I was Xena, the Tattooed Princess. With my new-found self-confidence, I decided it was time to quit thinking of burning bras. It was time for cutting off the boobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when my mom told me she was going in for a ‘lift and an implant’, I just had to come along. I said, “Fine, do what you want, but don’t give me any crap for what I do to my body anymore. And I want new boobs, too”, and we were off for our consultations. The irony was not lost on me, but mostly it spoke to the fact that we came from different generations. My mom grew up with icons like Cher and Suzanne Sommers and even drove a corvette like Barbie. She prescribed to a completely different set of gender values, including, \"Women do not ask men out\", and boobs=good, whereas I believed the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2895\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 174px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/c760d3ea0c61f2b01d3d033b38814b80/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2895\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2895 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/c760d3ea0c61f2b01d3d033b38814b80.jpg\" alt='Nadine from \"Twin Peaks\"' width=\"174\" height=\"217\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine from \"Twin Peaks\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">People think it’s funny we had the same doctor. And the joke about how I should have given her my excess boob is pretty played out. She got her surgery first, a little before mine. I was supposed to help take care of her, especially since after a boob surgery, you can’t lift your arms for a few weeks. A ‘lift and implant’ consists of pretty much what it sounds like: lift ‘em up, stick some stuff in. Surprisingly, it was an outpatient procedure that our gray-haired, slightly lecherous plastic surgeon could do in his office. All I had to was swing by in the minivan, put her in the car and take her home. I will never forget what I saw when I got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The nurses cooed softly, telling me, “Your mom was so brave,” and handed me all the prescriptions with stern directions on how to take care of her. Slowly they wheeled her around as I hopped out of the car in the loading zone, ready to pop her in the back. As they leaned over to gingerly help her up, I burst out laughing. She was drugged out of her mind, barely coherent, with a blanket over her lap and an eye patch on her face. \u003cem>What the hell happened in there?\u003c/em> She went in for a fairly routine suburban vanity procedure and came out looking like an old pirate. It was too much. I felt bad, laughing as the nurses scowled at me. They explained that she was so sedated that she scratched at her face when she woke up and hurt her eye. They also explained that I would basically have to carry my six-foot-tall mother’s body up the stairs as she would not really be able to walk. \u003cem>Now they tell me\u003c/em>, I thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I managed to get her up the stairs and into the bathroom, but I will spare you the rest. I thought, \u003cem>This is what it will be like when she’s really old\u003c/em>. The whole thing seriously frightened me. Putting her in the bed, spooning soup up to her mouth and dabbing her chin, telling her when she could have another vicodin... my future of older-daughter-taking-care-of-mom was flashing before my eyes. The rest of her story is pretty unremarkable*, but all of a sudden I knew what I was in for, both in the distant future and also with my own surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">*Though, sadly, my mom's boobs broke during a routine mammogram, which the hospital doesn't cover, and she never got new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Huge \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/cantaloupe/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2897\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-2897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Cantaloupe-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Cantaloupe\" width=\"210\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I went in for my breast reduction consultation, my plastic surgeon made me take off my shirt and informed me of his medical opinion of my condition. My breasts, he said, were “huge”. He told me, “We should have no problem getting the insurance company to pay for the operation.” Great. His nurses came in and took headless photos of me, making sure to play up my sloping shoulders and terrible posture. What a fascinating job someone at the insurance company must have, approving or denying surgical proposals like mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">We then had a concerned rap session on what I was getting myself into. Most people who get breast reductions, it turns out, are fat ladies and old women. This was a big decision. Sometimes on a big lady when you take off only a portion of the excess, he explained, there can be weird gaps, or fat-back flaps, where once your boobs sort of smoothed everything into big curves. There were pictures, and it was fascinating. Luckily, I was not in danger of fat-back, or the other things I saw in those photos, like a half-missing tattoo, or scary instances of skin falling off of the smoker patients. Lastly, we discussed the ‘ideal breast’. He drew me a scientific picture of a line with a perfect cone placed jauntily above it, like the one below. Then he drew a line with a droopus magoopus, sad ‘U’ shape that hung past the line, like so. The former, he explained, was a perfect breast. The latter, you guessed it, was mine. The objective was to have a boob that defied gravity by its own volition, but mine were “waaaaay below the line”. We decided to go for the all popular cone-shaped C cup, which would keep my ass from looking like an out-of-place pear-shaped balloon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/boobs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2898\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2898\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/boobs-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"boobs\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">After I was approved for a free surgery, all I had to do was come back the day before for the operation and have the surgical marks put on. I’m sure you are wondering- no, they don’t cut off your nipples. They cut around them, in a sort of anchor pattern, open the boobs up and scoop the fat out. The opposite of my mom’s surgery, basically. My friend once saw this operation on some surgery channel and it scared her so badly she had nightmares. I chose not to look it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The surgical marks, amazingly, are hand-drawn dotted lines that the plastic surgeon makes with a marker where he is planning to cut you. It’s incredibly weird, and also kind of remedial. I got back in the car as it started to snow, ready to go ahead with everything, with sharpie drawings on my boobs under my clothes. As I drove up the hill to the house, I noticed that the snow had gotten pretty heavy and all of a sudden I was fighting to keep my car on the road. The next thing I knew, I was desperately trying to dig my tires out of a snowdrift-covered ditch. When I finally made it home, and got ready to put my pajamas on, I realized that the whole time I had been sweatily shoveling snow outside, I had been erasing my surgery lines. It was just a black fuzzy mess. \u003cem>No!\u003c/em> I was so excited to have the operation- it represented a new, improved me and I simply couldn’t reschedule my transformation. So I got out a sharpie and started frantically redrawing the lines in the mirror. I looked at my reflection and noticed I was doing a pretty bad job. The exact lines my surgeon would follow were now some child-like backwards jaggedy scribble. I nervously laughed, bit my lip and set my alarm for the next day, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">When I got there, he was confident my chicken scratch surgery guidelines weren't a big deal. I breathed a sigh of relief. Unlike my mom’s outpatient surgery, this was a five-hour intense operation in the hospital, and I would have to stay there for a few days. The anesthesiologist showed up and I counted backwards. I woke up on a gurney with my catheter being pulled out on my way out of the operation room. Every hour while in my hospital bed, a nurse would come to check and make sure my nipples hadn’t turned blue. Other than that, it seemed pretty great, but I was definitely blitzed out of my mind on pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/drew-barrymore-breast-reduction/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2899\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2899 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Drew-Barrymore-Breast-Reduction-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrity breast reductionist: Drew Barrymore\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity breast reductionist: Drew Barrymore, from http://plasticsurgerystar.com/drew-barrymore-before-and-after-breast-reduction\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/soleil140-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2902\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/soleil1401-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrity breast reductionist: Soleil Moon Frye (before). Poor Punky.\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity breast reductionist: Soleil Moon Frye (before). Poor Punky\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Free Bird\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom picked me up and took care of me, naturally. Once I had worn the mummy bandages and drainage tubes, (yes, gross), for two weeks, I got to take out my small, perky, Frankenstein-stitched and greenish bruised boobs and slip them into a triangle-shaped little girl bra. It was the best thing I have ever experienced, like holding a soft kitten under a rainbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2903\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/soleil-moon-frye/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2903\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2903 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye.jpg\" alt=\"Soleil-Moon-Frye\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity breast reductionist Soleil Moon Frye (after). \u003ca href=\"http://2dayhangover.com/2011/10/boob-month-celebrities-who-have-undergone-breast-reduction/\">Image from a revealing boy perspective on the dreaded breast reduction.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish that I was a better feminist. I wish big boobs were something I had been able to righteously declare as something that made me, me, and commenters be damned. I also wish we were like birds, and that the males were the ones with the plumage who strutted around attracting mates with their unpractical accessories. I can't change the way we are as a sexist society or how men treat women or how women treat women, and I don't have the energy to try. I just want to wear a tank top in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2907\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 218px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/siouxsie_sioux_picture_4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2907\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2907\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Siouxsie_Sioux_Picture_4-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"I love it on Siouxsie Sioux, too\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love it on Siouxsie Sioux, too\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2906\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 212px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/foznyt/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2906\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2906\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/foznyt-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"I always loved this Vivienne Westwood boob shirt, on Sex Pistols' guitarist, Steve Jones\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I always loved this Vivienne Westwood boob shirt, on Sex Pistols' guitarist, Steve Jones\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when my mom told me she was going in for a ‘lift and an implant’, I just had to come along. I said, “Fine, do what you want, but don’t give me any crap for what I do to my body anymore. And I want new boobs, too”, and we were off for our consultations. The irony was not lost on me, but mostly it spoke to the fact that we came from different generations. My mom grew up with icons like Cher and Suzanne Sommers and even drove a corvette like Barbie. She prescribed to a completely different set of gender values, including, \"Women do not ask men out\", and boobs=good, whereas I believed the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2895\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 174px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/c760d3ea0c61f2b01d3d033b38814b80/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2895\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2895 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/c760d3ea0c61f2b01d3d033b38814b80.jpg\" alt='Nadine from \"Twin Peaks\"' width=\"174\" height=\"217\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine from \"Twin Peaks\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">People think it’s funny we had the same doctor. And the joke about how I should have given her my excess boob is pretty played out. She got her surgery first, a little before mine. I was supposed to help take care of her, especially since after a boob surgery, you can’t lift your arms for a few weeks. A ‘lift and implant’ consists of pretty much what it sounds like: lift ‘em up, stick some stuff in. Surprisingly, it was an outpatient procedure that our gray-haired, slightly lecherous plastic surgeon could do in his office. All I had to was swing by in the minivan, put her in the car and take her home. I will never forget what I saw when I got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The nurses cooed softly, telling me, “Your mom was so brave,” and handed me all the prescriptions with stern directions on how to take care of her. Slowly they wheeled her around as I hopped out of the car in the loading zone, ready to pop her in the back. As they leaned over to gingerly help her up, I burst out laughing. She was drugged out of her mind, barely coherent, with a blanket over her lap and an eye patch on her face. \u003cem>What the hell happened in there?\u003c/em> She went in for a fairly routine suburban vanity procedure and came out looking like an old pirate. It was too much. I felt bad, laughing as the nurses scowled at me. They explained that she was so sedated that she scratched at her face when she woke up and hurt her eye. They also explained that I would basically have to carry my six-foot-tall mother’s body up the stairs as she would not really be able to walk. \u003cem>Now they tell me\u003c/em>, I thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I managed to get her up the stairs and into the bathroom, but I will spare you the rest. I thought, \u003cem>This is what it will be like when she’s really old\u003c/em>. The whole thing seriously frightened me. Putting her in the bed, spooning soup up to her mouth and dabbing her chin, telling her when she could have another vicodin... my future of older-daughter-taking-care-of-mom was flashing before my eyes. The rest of her story is pretty unremarkable*, but all of a sudden I knew what I was in for, both in the distant future and also with my own surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">*Though, sadly, my mom's boobs broke during a routine mammogram, which the hospital doesn't cover, and she never got new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Huge \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/cantaloupe/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2897\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-2897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Cantaloupe-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Cantaloupe\" width=\"210\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I went in for my breast reduction consultation, my plastic surgeon made me take off my shirt and informed me of his medical opinion of my condition. My breasts, he said, were “huge”. He told me, “We should have no problem getting the insurance company to pay for the operation.” Great. His nurses came in and took headless photos of me, making sure to play up my sloping shoulders and terrible posture. What a fascinating job someone at the insurance company must have, approving or denying surgical proposals like mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">We then had a concerned rap session on what I was getting myself into. Most people who get breast reductions, it turns out, are fat ladies and old women. This was a big decision. Sometimes on a big lady when you take off only a portion of the excess, he explained, there can be weird gaps, or fat-back flaps, where once your boobs sort of smoothed everything into big curves. There were pictures, and it was fascinating. Luckily, I was not in danger of fat-back, or the other things I saw in those photos, like a half-missing tattoo, or scary instances of skin falling off of the smoker patients. Lastly, we discussed the ‘ideal breast’. He drew me a scientific picture of a line with a perfect cone placed jauntily above it, like the one below. Then he drew a line with a droopus magoopus, sad ‘U’ shape that hung past the line, like so. The former, he explained, was a perfect breast. The latter, you guessed it, was mine. The objective was to have a boob that defied gravity by its own volition, but mine were “waaaaay below the line”. We decided to go for the all popular cone-shaped C cup, which would keep my ass from looking like an out-of-place pear-shaped balloon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/boobs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2898\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2898\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/boobs-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"boobs\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">After I was approved for a free surgery, all I had to do was come back the day before for the operation and have the surgical marks put on. I’m sure you are wondering- no, they don’t cut off your nipples. They cut around them, in a sort of anchor pattern, open the boobs up and scoop the fat out. The opposite of my mom’s surgery, basically. My friend once saw this operation on some surgery channel and it scared her so badly she had nightmares. I chose not to look it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The surgical marks, amazingly, are hand-drawn dotted lines that the plastic surgeon makes with a marker where he is planning to cut you. It’s incredibly weird, and also kind of remedial. I got back in the car as it started to snow, ready to go ahead with everything, with sharpie drawings on my boobs under my clothes. As I drove up the hill to the house, I noticed that the snow had gotten pretty heavy and all of a sudden I was fighting to keep my car on the road. The next thing I knew, I was desperately trying to dig my tires out of a snowdrift-covered ditch. When I finally made it home, and got ready to put my pajamas on, I realized that the whole time I had been sweatily shoveling snow outside, I had been erasing my surgery lines. It was just a black fuzzy mess. \u003cem>No!\u003c/em> I was so excited to have the operation- it represented a new, improved me and I simply couldn’t reschedule my transformation. So I got out a sharpie and started frantically redrawing the lines in the mirror. I looked at my reflection and noticed I was doing a pretty bad job. The exact lines my surgeon would follow were now some child-like backwards jaggedy scribble. I nervously laughed, bit my lip and set my alarm for the next day, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">When I got there, he was confident my chicken scratch surgery guidelines weren't a big deal. I breathed a sigh of relief. Unlike my mom’s outpatient surgery, this was a five-hour intense operation in the hospital, and I would have to stay there for a few days. The anesthesiologist showed up and I counted backwards. I woke up on a gurney with my catheter being pulled out on my way out of the operation room. Every hour while in my hospital bed, a nurse would come to check and make sure my nipples hadn’t turned blue. 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Poor Punky.\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity breast reductionist: Soleil Moon Frye (before). Poor Punky\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Free Bird\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom picked me up and took care of me, naturally. Once I had worn the mummy bandages and drainage tubes, (yes, gross), for two weeks, I got to take out my small, perky, Frankenstein-stitched and greenish bruised boobs and slip them into a triangle-shaped little girl bra. It was the best thing I have ever experienced, like holding a soft kitten under a rainbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2903\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/22/boob-swap-a-mother-daughter-plastic-surgery-adventure/soleil-moon-frye/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2903\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2903 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye.jpg\" alt=\"Soleil-Moon-Frye\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Soleil-Moon-Frye-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity breast reductionist Soleil Moon Frye (after). \u003ca href=\"http://2dayhangover.com/2011/10/boob-month-celebrities-who-have-undergone-breast-reduction/\">Image from a revealing boy perspective on the dreaded breast reduction.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish that I was a better feminist. I wish big boobs were something I had been able to righteously declare as something that made me, me, and commenters be damned. I also wish we were like birds, and that the males were the ones with the plumage who strutted around attracting mates with their unpractical accessories. I can't change the way we are as a sexist society or how men treat women or how women treat women, and I don't have the energy to try. 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Sexy, smart and at times downright scary, Wright brings an elegant emotional depth to Claire, who against all odds almost seems to function as the (cold, blackened) heart of the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Mara rounds out the starring cast as Zoe Barnes, the ambitious young reporter who, through a clumsy yet calculated seduction, secures Congressman Underwood as a confidential source and becomes the hottest young voice on the Beltway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews of the show—mostly positive—are still trickling in. This likely because the very nature of the show’s delivery mechanism allows us to watch it whenever we want. With all 13 episodes available simultaneously, Netflix’s grand experiment in original content is also a referendum on the very idea of what TV is and how we consume it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the all-at-once system makes for great binging (and the show is decidedly binge-worthy), it also makes developing a sustained buzz a bit more challenging. The only real rationale for making “appointment television” anymore is to avoid spoilers, as social media has evolved to respond in real-time to the latest episodes of everyone’s favorite shows, with live tweeting of episodes and day-after blog recaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no set protocol for avoiding spoilers with \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em>, however. You’re only “caught up” once you’ve watched the whole series, and once you’ve seen it all, there’s not a lot of “OMG what’s going to happen next week?” momentum to keep the conversation going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em> has enough shocking twists and “could you believe it when...?” moments to give viewers plenty to talk about. 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Even the phrase “watching TV” is slowly losing its meaning, as it slides towards the anachronistic irrelevance of its brethren “dialing a phone” or “listen to a record,” everyday sentiments rendered obsolete by the advances of modern technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more viewers watch their “TV shows” on non-TV devices like tablets, computer displays or smartphones, and with the advent of online, web or streaming-only content available on-demand from providers like Netflix and also Hulu, the very idea of a “TV show” is becoming an anachronism as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, if a show is delivered to its audience over the internet, in one lump of 13 episodes, without any specified broadcast schedule or tune-in time, is it even really television?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy of Arts & Sciences says it is. The Emmys were ahead of the game on this one, changing their rules back in 2008 to make digital shows from streaming internet providers eligible for their yearly awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://stayonfountain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/house-of-cards-lineup.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2810\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2810\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/url.jpg\" alt=\"url\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/url.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/url-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House of Cards\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So how might \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em> fare come award season? 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"content": "\u003cp>There comes a time in everyone’s life when you stop getting carded for your box-o-wine at the grocery store and suddenly need translation to understand what anyone under 20 is even saying. Friends, I am long past this benchmark, and feel no embarrassment about asking young people to explain all the new-fangled things going on with “kids these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/friedgreentomatoes/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2615\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/friedgreentomatoes.gif\" alt=\"friedgreentomatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to “Ask a Teenager,” a new series I’ll be posting irregularly, where I ask teenagers about things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first interviewee is Alanna Hinch Ruhnke (totally not her real name), a teenager I met when she was my student at writing camp. She is smarter than a lot of adults I know and like, totally grown-up! Which is evidenced in part by the complete lack of “like,” or even a single exclamation point in any of her responses. Also by the way she puts me on notice right away in her response to this first question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you identify as a nerd? What is the best part about being a nerd? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hate giving myself labels, but I suppose I should identify as being a nerd. I currently have the Dungeons and Dragons podcast on pause on my computer, with Supernatural minimized in the background. I create my own languages for fun -- I think that's the weirdest thing I do, but I don't feel guilty about it at all. The reason I don't like describing myself as a nerd is because I think it places a definition on the term. There's so many things that make you a nerd, and so many things that don't. I think that's the best part about being a nerd -- you don't always have to commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You guys! I’m a stuffy old adult who puts LABELS on people! When did that happen? I’ve been claiming the Nerd set for years now, but Alanna’s commitment to being herself without putting a name on it is inspiring.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about this \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> show you think is so awesome. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I honestly just like \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> because I have a weakness for fantastic British people. \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> is a show taking the Arthur Conan Doyle short stories and placing them and the characters in modern-day London. 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People can get very aggressive about it, and the ships range from pretty normal -- say, Harry and Hermione from the \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> series -- to the complex i.e. the completely immersive and incomprehensible relationships of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Hussie's \u003cem>Homestuck\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- to the utterly bizarre -- Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I personally don't see shipping as an enormous deal because I tend to respect the \"canon\" of the show (or what's been stated in text or subtext) instead -- however, in terms of \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>, I do ship John and Sherlock (shh! don't tell anyone!). 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It puts everyone on the same level, makes everyone seem just as real and human.\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/alanna-oscars-copy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2604\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2604\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Alanna Oscars copy\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanna in her sophisticated tuxedo-inspired Oscar outfit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>What was the worst part of the whole thing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>100% Seth McFarlane's jokes, which were, for the most part, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>low-brow. 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Labels are out, Shipping is in, and waiting in the cold for a car next to Kristen Stewart is exhilarating.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There comes a time in everyone’s life when you stop getting carded for your box-o-wine at the grocery store and suddenly need translation to understand what anyone under 20 is even saying. Friends, I am long past this benchmark, and feel no embarrassment about asking young people to explain all the new-fangled things going on with “kids these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/friedgreentomatoes/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2615\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/friedgreentomatoes.gif\" alt=\"friedgreentomatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to “Ask a Teenager,” a new series I’ll be posting irregularly, where I ask teenagers about things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first interviewee is Alanna Hinch Ruhnke (totally not her real name), a teenager I met when she was my student at writing camp. She is smarter than a lot of adults I know and like, totally grown-up! Which is evidenced in part by the complete lack of “like,” or even a single exclamation point in any of her responses. Also by the way she puts me on notice right away in her response to this first question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you identify as a nerd? What is the best part about being a nerd? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hate giving myself labels, but I suppose I should identify as being a nerd. I currently have the Dungeons and Dragons podcast on pause on my computer, with Supernatural minimized in the background. I create my own languages for fun -- I think that's the weirdest thing I do, but I don't feel guilty about it at all. The reason I don't like describing myself as a nerd is because I think it places a definition on the term. There's so many things that make you a nerd, and so many things that don't. I think that's the best part about being a nerd -- you don't always have to commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You guys! I’m a stuffy old adult who puts LABELS on people! When did that happen? I’ve been claiming the Nerd set for years now, but Alanna’s commitment to being herself without putting a name on it is inspiring.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about this \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> show you think is so awesome. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I honestly just like \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> because I have a weakness for fantastic British people. \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em> is a show taking the Arthur Conan Doyle short stories and placing them and the characters in modern-day London. It's good enough that I actually got my mother into it, and she's a tough nut to crack when it comes to things we both find riveting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/alanna_chair-copy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2605\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2605 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna_Chair-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Alanna is pretty into Sherlock.\" width=\"286\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna_Chair-copy.jpg 583w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna_Chair-copy-400x658.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanna is pretty into Sherlock.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's this whole \"Tumblr\" thing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow, there's actually so much to talk about, I don't know where to begin. I guess the first thing you'd need to know is that recent studies say that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a> is more popular among teens than Facebook is, and that's saying something. You can share photos, links, videos, GIFs (and oh boy, are there GIFs), audio and text posts -- none of which make any sense 90% of the time. Tumblr's the place where the kids go after they realize that they can be whoever they want to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the heck is \"Shipping?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, shipping is when one interacts with some form of media (be it movies, books, TV shows, etc), looks at the characters, and says, \"Wow, these two people (or aliens, or animals, or sentient objects) should so obviously be in a relationship, that from now on I will act as though they \u003cem>are\u003c/em>.\" Shipping is way popular on Tumblr, and even people who refuse to immerse themselves in fan art, fiction, and such will likely still ship a couple or two from their favorite show. People can get very aggressive about it, and the ships range from pretty normal -- say, Harry and Hermione from the \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> series -- to the complex i.e. the completely immersive and incomprehensible relationships of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Hussie's \u003cem>Homestuck\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- to the utterly bizarre -- Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I personally don't see shipping as an enormous deal because I tend to respect the \"canon\" of the show (or what's been stated in text or subtext) instead -- however, in terms of \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>, I do ship John and Sherlock (shh! don't tell anyone!). Speaking of which, this picture surfaced on Tumblr a few days ago and circulated the website faster than anything I've ever seen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 460px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/sherlock-grapes-460x343/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2607\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/sherlock-grapes-460x343.jpg\" alt='\"Sherlock\" and \"John\" should totally ship. (via 3 Chick Geeks)' width=\"460\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/sherlock-grapes-460x343.jpg 460w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/sherlock-grapes-460x343-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Sherlock\" and \"John\" should totally ship. (via 3 \u003ca href=\"http://3chicgeeks.com/2013/03/13/we-are-fandom-hear-us-roar/\">Chick Geeks\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>So wait, my game of thinking about what characters would totally \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/13/celebrigay-couples-valentines-fantasy-league/\">be gay together\u003c/a> in real life is like, a thing? With a name? And teenagers do it? That’s cool.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me how you feel about Anne Hathaway. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a ton of great things to say about Anne Hathaway, but I'll try and keep it short. I love Anne Hathaway because of how she uses her fame to advance human rights. Anne Hathaway really pushes the social justice aspect of herself. I think it's the greatest thing ever how much of an LGBT rights activist she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the coolest thing ever? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of what's actually cool right now, I have no idea. I guess for me, the coolest thing is \u003cem>Supernatural\u003c/em>, a TV show, but that sounds so superficial. I don't even care how much I'm wasting my life -- it's such a good show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/supernatural_gif/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2608\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2608\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/supernatural_gif.gif\" alt=\"supernatural_gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nWhat do grown-ups not get about the world? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I have to pick one thing? No, I kid, I kid. I'd have to say that it's difficult for adults to understand how integral of a role the internet and electronics plays in the life of teens. It's still difficult for them to grasp how much of our social life takes place over a device. It's kind of depressing, actually, but it's so much easier for me to keep in touch with my long-distance friends. What's also weird, I've noticed, is that adults seem to treat friendships built online as poisonous or somehow socially debilitating, but I disagree. I have friends online and offline. Heck, I have friends that I met offline and got to know much better online so that when we did hang out, we were much closer. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/internet_friends/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2609\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/internet_friends.gif\" alt=\"internet_friends\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I heard you went to the Oscars.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>What was the best part of the whole thing?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWell, I guess a ton of people would expect me to say the outfits or the awards ceremony (yeah, right, what with this year's), but my honest-to-god favorite part is waiting outside the theatre after the show. It's great because you've spent the entire time up in the nosebleed seats in the theatre, watching all the big stars do their thing on the stage and in the front rows or on the red carpet and then there's this genuine moment after it's all over where you're standing in the cold waiting for your car, and you turn to your left and Kristen Stewart is doing the exact same thing. It puts everyone on the same level, makes everyone seem just as real and human.\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/15/ask-a-teenager/alanna-oscars-copy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2604\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2604\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Alanna Oscars copy\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Alanna-Oscars-copy-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanna in her sophisticated tuxedo-inspired Oscar outfit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>What was the worst part of the whole thing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>100% Seth McFarlane's jokes, which were, for the most part, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>low-brow. 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"content": "\u003cp>Beginning at age 11, I wrote to my older self and this continued all through high school, letters from me age 14 to me age 30 and so on. It’s always sweet and strange to open these mysterious missives to see who I was. Dreams, psychic attempts, gossip and lists of what was currently cool fill the pages. Though she was a tad melodramatic, I've always felt a kinship with my teenage self. In fact I’m convinced a significant part of me still is 14 (maybe 17 when I’m feeling sophisticated). I’m curious about how our tastes develop over time, how they’re born and how they form us. It turns out that many of the interests and discoveries that illuminated my 14-year-old life still illuminate my 34-year-old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 583px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/meee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2470\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg\" alt=\"Me at 14 v. Me at 34. Believe it or not there was a decade where my hair was other colors and lengths and I never wore flannel.\" width=\"583\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at 14 vs. Me at 34. I promise there was more than decade where my hair was different and I never wore flannel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up out in the woods pre-Internet there was nothing quite like the discovery of music, books, art, or fashion that I loved, hence my proclivity toward the cool lists. With non-traditional, artistic parents there wasn't much to rebel against. I was encouraged to express myself however I wanted and sometimes made to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU\">Joseph Campbell videos\u003c/a>. I vividly remember ripping holes in my stockings the summer between 8th and 9th grade but I’m not entirely sure where the inspiration came from. I was happily sent home from school once for an outfit deemed too “distracting” (violet slip, green vintage t-shirt, platform sandals) and it was early on that my love for scouring thrift stores, wearing giant jewelry and creating outfits with flourishes such as my dad’s blue coveralls was born. Each new find I made was a message in a bottle from the outside world. They were hints at the place I was one day going to get to and proof that I was compatible with it. \u003ca href=\"http://tropicsofmeta.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bikinikillkathleenhannaslut.gif\">Riot Grrrls\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/heathers4.jpg\">\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Wat_is_Dada_%3F_cover.jpg\">Dadaism\u003c/a>! The clues were everywhere, in episodes of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.badlands-blog.com/2010/09/clare-danes-as-angela-chase-in-my-so.html\">My So-Called Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in the pages of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg\">Sassy\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in\u003cem> \u003c/em>drives to D.C. for band t-shirts, baby doll dresses, artsy movies, museums and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/arlib/7024954027/in/photostream/\">Indie Rock Flea Market\u003c/a>. Something thrilling was occurring in my gathering of these interests, no less than the formation of an identity being built consciously and unconsciously. My current self is beholden to these influences in inextricable, enigmatic ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/items/159.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2496\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2496 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg\" alt=\"Tuscadero was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeEv9JzVOY\">Tuscadero\u003c/a> was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing,\"\u003c/em> Arthur Rimbaud writes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19836\">\u003cem>A Season In Hell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. In high school this slim golden volume that I only half understood was suggested to me by a cute older boy who not only was in college but went to \u003cem>art school\u003c/em>. Rimbaud was a 19-year-old French free-verse poet whose bio includes adjectives like\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1268\"> volatile and peripatetic\u003c/a>. The whole experience blew my mind on several levels. A boy suggesting a book meant the thoughts therein were ones we’d both looked at and read and therefore shared somehow and I realized for the first time how intimacy could be created through ideas\u003cem>.\u003c/em> It was a revelation in the sexiness of words that I've never forgotten and it influences everything from my text messages to my short stories to how my thoughts even work. The idea that this type of poetic expression was a life or death thing, a way to live and consider life all at once, meant everything to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 627px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/rimbaud-and-sylvia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2476\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2476 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur & Sylvia\" width=\"627\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg 1936w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur & Sylvia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there was \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/363092/sylvia-plaths-the-bell-jar-a-visual-history\">\u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath/1416\">Sylvia Plath\u003c/a>, discovered by way of my 9\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade fascination with women writers who’d killed themselves. \u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em> contains sentiments that both my 14 and 34-year-old self deeply appreciate, such as, \u003cem>“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”\u003c/em> Though the book is clearly full of despair, lines like that feel freeing too because of the power in Plath's language that wrestles with despair. \u003cem>The Bell Jar \u003c/em>was a reading experience beyond simply relating to the voice and more like having something directly injected into my psyche. In Maggie Nelson’s incredible, paradigm-shifting collection of essays \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-the-art-of-cruelty-by-maggie-nelson.html?pagewanted=all\">\u003cem>The Art of Cruelty\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Plath is addressed in-depth. Nelson says she can’t help but wish we could all read the writing of an older Plath and I agree. It’s profound to consider how our concerns, understandings and preoccupations shift as we age, and it would have been fascinating to see them shift in her. Among many reasons why, she might have given our own shifts more clarity and because the only thing as fascinating as what remains the same in us is what changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One significant activity that filled my days as a teenager was zine making. For years I dutifully created \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob Queen\u003c/em> (I forget the title's origin, I think I was fascinated by locks) and sold it at local music stores. It contained lyrics from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzxYVeI0wc\">The Cure\u003c/a>, poetry obviously, \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15297\">Anne Sexton\u003c/a> lines, concert tickets and sketches of boys I had crushes on. Zine-making is still going strong, somewhat undeterred by the ubiquitous power of the screen (or perhaps invigorated by it). There’s also, of course, the overall trend toward the handmade, including \u003ca href=\"http://sfcb.org/\">book art and bookmaking\u003c/a>. My sometimes panicked deleting of Instagram off my phone must be the result of my old school affinity for scotch tape, staples, my manual camera and ripping up all my books and magazines. Nothing makes me feel better than ripping images out of a magazine and taping them on a piece of paper. The tangible and analogue are therapeutic because they remind me of my days spent collaging my bedroom walls and making music videos in the fields. I do appreciate things like \u003ca href=\"http://rookiemag.com/\">\u003cem>Rookie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sadiemagazine.com/\">Sadie\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>zine-like in spirit even though they’re online, and which my teenage self would've totally devoured had the Internet been around. Locally there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.needles-pens.com/\">Needles & Pens\u003c/a> (my high school and current self’s dream store) who carry zines and other ephemera, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfzinefest.org/\">SF Zine Festival\u003c/a>, where if I ever get my act together, I plan to one day unveil my collaborative zine project \u003cem>Future Circa\u003c/em> (you know who you are, collaborator) which will make my 14-year-old-self proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 486px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/zine/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2473\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2473 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png\" alt=\"Title Page of Confessions of a Doorknob Queen-1996\" width=\"486\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-400x613.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-800x1226.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title Page of \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob\u003c/em> Queen- circa 1996\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than any one band (well, maybe \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhHPl_oCmU\">The Pixies\u003c/a>) it’s the love of \u003cem>finding\u003c/em> music that I share with my young self (though she had a higher tendency to write lyrics on her t-shirts in marker); the act of reading, going to shows, sharing new discoveries and of course, listening. Listening when I’m working, when I’m writing, when I’m walking; music informs and punctuates every activity and always has. I remember sitting in the film center my freshman year of college when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks\">Fugazi’s \u003cem>Waiting Room\u003c/em>\u003c/a> started playing. In my unsettled, homesick state it felt like my familiarity and attachment to that song was a mirror, a vital part of me, a wild perfect remedy of some sort. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm\">Science confirms\u003c/a> how literally music is tied into our memories and life stories and I'm not surprised. More than one of my early romances hinged on a shared love of certain bands (my knowledge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3L_NCZk4s\">Jawbox \u003c/a>is totally responsible for my first college kiss). With the advent of music blogs and Spotify this musical search has become easier and different of course, but it still contains the spirit of the scavenger hunt and I still love it. I have Spotify to thank for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyZXglIPQ8\">Lust For Youth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t01dYTecfS8\">Gazelle Twin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng_CdAAw8M\">Rhye\u003c/a> among a zillion others. My 14-year-old self would have lost her mind over Spotify (for inspiration I’ve been listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug8C4KcGfQ\">Bratmobile \u003c/a>while writing this article). When I was in high school I made mixed tapes and titled the two sides things like \u003cstrong>Slut Side\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Virgin Side\u003c/strong>. In the spirit of those days, I now title my Spotify playlists as if they have two sides (\u003cstrong>Doomed\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Saved\u003c/strong>!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/mixed-tape/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2477\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape.jpg\" alt=\"mixed tape\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searching, openness, magic and attention it takes to find what you love is so fun, serendipitous and rewarding. The word of mouth, the overheard song, the opening band, how one thing you love is\u003ca href=\"http://www.othervoices.org/1.2/cornell/cornellduchamp.php\"> connected\u003c/a> to another, how \u003ca href=\"http://therumpus.net/2012/09/the-sunday-rumpus-interview-junot-diaz/\">one author you like\u003c/a> talks about \u003ca href=\"http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/stray-questions-for-paul-yoon/\">an author he likes\u003c/a>, how through these things we continually decide, \u003cem>I am \u003ca href=\"http://www.deitch.com/projects/slide_pop.php?imageId=2157&name=Clare%20Rojas\">this\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ocbarrios.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/marcel_dzama_untitled_2003_318_42-820x1024.jpg\">this\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://formenteragirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jenny-holzer.jpg\">this\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Though I no longer need the lifeline in exactly the same way I did when I was younger, I still feel the richness and delight of each discovery and how they make the world seem like an astonishing place brimming with expression, excitement and a ton of stuff worth adding to my cool list. I found that thrilling and inspiring at age 14 and I still do. I sat down recently to write my 40-year- old self a letter and I have a feeling she’ll agree.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Beginning at age 11, I wrote to my older self and this continued all through high school, letters from me age 14 to me age 30 and so on. It’s always sweet and strange to open these mysterious missives to see who I was. Dreams, psychic attempts, gossip and lists of what was currently cool fill the pages. Though she was a tad melodramatic, I've always felt a kinship with my teenage self. In fact I’m convinced a significant part of me still is 14 (maybe 17 when I’m feeling sophisticated). I’m curious about how our tastes develop over time, how they’re born and how they form us. It turns out that many of the interests and discoveries that illuminated my 14-year-old life still illuminate my 34-year-old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 583px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/meee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2470\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg\" alt=\"Me at 14 v. Me at 34. Believe it or not there was a decade where my hair was other colors and lengths and I never wore flannel.\" width=\"583\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at 14 vs. Me at 34. I promise there was more than decade where my hair was different and I never wore flannel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up out in the woods pre-Internet there was nothing quite like the discovery of music, books, art, or fashion that I loved, hence my proclivity toward the cool lists. With non-traditional, artistic parents there wasn't much to rebel against. I was encouraged to express myself however I wanted and sometimes made to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU\">Joseph Campbell videos\u003c/a>. I vividly remember ripping holes in my stockings the summer between 8th and 9th grade but I’m not entirely sure where the inspiration came from. I was happily sent home from school once for an outfit deemed too “distracting” (violet slip, green vintage t-shirt, platform sandals) and it was early on that my love for scouring thrift stores, wearing giant jewelry and creating outfits with flourishes such as my dad’s blue coveralls was born. Each new find I made was a message in a bottle from the outside world. They were hints at the place I was one day going to get to and proof that I was compatible with it. \u003ca href=\"http://tropicsofmeta.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bikinikillkathleenhannaslut.gif\">Riot Grrrls\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/heathers4.jpg\">\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Wat_is_Dada_%3F_cover.jpg\">Dadaism\u003c/a>! The clues were everywhere, in episodes of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.badlands-blog.com/2010/09/clare-danes-as-angela-chase-in-my-so.html\">My So-Called Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in the pages of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg\">Sassy\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in\u003cem> \u003c/em>drives to D.C. for band t-shirts, baby doll dresses, artsy movies, museums and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/arlib/7024954027/in/photostream/\">Indie Rock Flea Market\u003c/a>. Something thrilling was occurring in my gathering of these interests, no less than the formation of an identity being built consciously and unconsciously. My current self is beholden to these influences in inextricable, enigmatic ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/items/159.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2496\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2496 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg\" alt=\"Tuscadero was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeEv9JzVOY\">Tuscadero\u003c/a> was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing,\"\u003c/em> Arthur Rimbaud writes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19836\">\u003cem>A Season In Hell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. In high school this slim golden volume that I only half understood was suggested to me by a cute older boy who not only was in college but went to \u003cem>art school\u003c/em>. Rimbaud was a 19-year-old French free-verse poet whose bio includes adjectives like\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1268\"> volatile and peripatetic\u003c/a>. The whole experience blew my mind on several levels. A boy suggesting a book meant the thoughts therein were ones we’d both looked at and read and therefore shared somehow and I realized for the first time how intimacy could be created through ideas\u003cem>.\u003c/em> It was a revelation in the sexiness of words that I've never forgotten and it influences everything from my text messages to my short stories to how my thoughts even work. 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I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”\u003c/em> Though the book is clearly full of despair, lines like that feel freeing too because of the power in Plath's language that wrestles with despair. \u003cem>The Bell Jar \u003c/em>was a reading experience beyond simply relating to the voice and more like having something directly injected into my psyche. In Maggie Nelson’s incredible, paradigm-shifting collection of essays \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-the-art-of-cruelty-by-maggie-nelson.html?pagewanted=all\">\u003cem>The Art of Cruelty\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Plath is addressed in-depth. Nelson says she can’t help but wish we could all read the writing of an older Plath and I agree. It’s profound to consider how our concerns, understandings and preoccupations shift as we age, and it would have been fascinating to see them shift in her. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2374\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 271px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2374\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\" width=\"271\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg 584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>A Girl Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls are having a moment. A Girl Renaissance, filled with frumpy young girl directors singing their autobiographical swan songs like Lena Dunham and Miranda July,\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15\" width=\"185\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png 185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM-160x226.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15 \u003ccite>(Instagram/@tavitulle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>doe-eyed, gray-haired ingenue Tavi Gevinson taking street style blogging and turning it into an \u003ca title=\"Empire\" href=\"http://rookiemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empire\u003c/a>, those girl-women of SNL fame writing pee-your-pants movies and TV shows like Kristen Wiig's \u003cem>Bridesmaids\u003c/em> and Tina Fey's \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>, and of course, Zooey Deschanel's media siege with her lame old-timey vocals in the band, \u003cem>She & Him\u003c/em>, and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/08/new-girl-the-sitcom-as-the-new-reality-tv/\">her pretty good show, \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. But wait, how could we forget the other girls dominating our airwaves? The CW TV network is a girl party on crack including \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">the sensationally guilt-pleasurable \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Then we have Lady Gaga, and those other weirdos, Nicki Minaj, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey. Talk about a take-over. I don't even know where the men are anymore. Oh wait. They're combing their beards and wearing flannels, curing meat at home and occasionally resurfacing from their woodland-decorated apartments to eat at restaurants they read about in the NY Times. Girls, the airwaves and internet are yours to command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/gossip-girl-on-steps/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2484\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2484 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg\" alt=\"'Gossip Girl'\" width=\"497\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Gossip Girl'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what is a 'girl' anymore? Something between a little girl and a lady? As a post-teen non-woman, I feel the need to keep the title of girl probably well past its original expiration date because I'd rather be a girl than a woman. Between my anxiety and my jealousy at being only a fringe element of the Girl Renaissance, I have been looking back into the girl culture of my past. I am by no means an authority, but I have put together an incredibly subjective History of Girl Culture (the last 33 years) for your amusement and nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Last 33 Years of Girl Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I was born one year shy of the 1980s, I have no idea what the late '70s were like. I can imagine it sucked as the fight for women's rights continued from the '60s, (well, really the '20s), and you wanted that whole \u003cem>Murphy Brown\u003c/em> thing that you didn't know about yet, but you also just wanted to burn your bra and drop acid and tell your uptight housewife mom to leave you alone. I can only include what I learned about in retrospect about cool girl culture since I was hanging out in utero. Let's leave out disco and roller skating and \u003cem>Three's Company\u003c/em> and focus on the amazing punk subculture of the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg\" alt=\"The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Punks and Vixens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivienne Westwood, Patti Smith, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits, Exene Cervenka, The Runaways, and Siouxsie and the Banshees should all make you embarrassed to be so unoriginal and passive. Between the English punks and the American ones, they had it covered. This documentary, \u003cem>The Decline of Western Civilization\u003c/em>, was directed by punk girl Penelope Spheeris, and captures the gritty, sneering, yet slightly self-conscious and heavily made-up Exene of the band X. As the odd sex out most of the time, girls like her and Siouxsie Sioux were both iconic feminists and potent sex bombs, paving the way as disheveled girl originals of the Courtney Loves who would follow.\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQLe9FdXXXw&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Funsters Who Live at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we enter the early '80s, I still can't tell you much from my perspective as a girl unless you want to know about \u003cem>The Smurfs\u003c/em>. But who didn't know about Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, or Pat Benatar, (though \"Hell is For Children\" was particularly alarming)? I mostly remember the \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\" video from \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em>, but the message had broad appeal, even to a six-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also had other iconic all-girl bands like The Go-Gos and The Bangles, and a overriding sense of fun and pop. The songs from Lauper and Madonna still reference their fathers, i.e. \"Papa Don't Preach,\" as if the hardened girls of the punk movement had lent their over-the-top style but not their tough girl message of staking out territory with the boys. It was girls on one side of the dance floor and boys on the other, and then there were the geeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Geeks and Bimbos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2481\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/martha-plimpton/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2481\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Martha-Plimpton.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Plimpton\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Plimpton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/the_breakfast_club_142_thumb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2482\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2482 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Sheedy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat strangely, a geek story plays out in almost all '80s teen culture. Nerdy girls like Martha Plimpton in \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em> or Ally Sheedy in the \u003cem>Breakfast Club\u003c/em> serve as comparison shots to the hot girls and never get the guy, or get him \u003cem>only\u003c/em> after a hot girl takes her under her wing. They are often seen literally comparing their boobs to the other girls in \u003ca title=\"Shower Scenes\" href=\"http://www.anyclip.com/movies/sixteen-candles/caroline-showers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shower scenes\u003c/a>, as men were probably the only ones writing the scripts. All girls in this era, it seems, want to be blond, busty, and heavily shouldered, like the girls in \u003cem>Valley Girl\u003c/em>, Seventeen Magazine, and Blair on the \u003cem>Facts of Life\u003c/em>. Enter heavy metal and the hope we had for self-respect went out the window with Kelly Bundy and groupies everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/christina-applegate-kelly-bundy-married-with-children6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2485 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6-400x272.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we approach the later end of the '80s, i'ts more and more apparent that girls are trying to be \u003cem>women\u003c/em>. The big hair, the big boobs, the way everyone talks about themselves as if they were really serious about everything. It all just made me feel extremely self-conscious. I don't know what happened to the feminists of the '70s. They were probably building communes to get away from all we had done to our own girlhoods, but everyone else was rocking out to dudes who looked like girls and checking out models we had actually learned the names of on the covers of magazines. There \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a few anti-heroes like Winona Ryder in the movie \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>, and for that I am eternally grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQik7L8Av6w&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Sarcastic yet Politically Correct \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the '90s now, and boy is it a girl's paradise. We all know how grunge killed metal, at least if you find yourself watching VH1 documentaries on Saturdays, and grunge also killed chauvinism, it would seem. Suddenly we forgot about Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour and even Janet Jackson and Lita Ford. We did tolerate \u003cem>90210\u003c/em> (Ok, I was 11 and I loved it), and the cooler cult classic \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>, but there was a storm brewing and it's name was Girl Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The other British invasion\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other British invasion\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you remember \"Girl Power\" when it was screamed from the stage of this British Goody-barretted monstrosity? Despite how ridiculous they were, especially in all those flared polyester pants, their message was delivered in good faith. \"Girl Power\" was a mantra echoed from these cheeky British mouths to all young girls across the world. As cheesy as that was, in the face of the metal years we had just gone through, we needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/bkbk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2489\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bkbk-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"Bikini Kill\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bikini Kill\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, while this was going on, we had another form of \"Girl Power\" known as Riot Grrl, like Bikini Kill screaming \"Suck my left one!\", among other things. Riot Grrls were mutli-tasker extremists, staying up late to make zines, create record distros, and bake cakes. We also had Riot Grrl Lite like No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" One thing was certain: absolutely everyone was in thrift store clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could go on about the '90s for a million years. It was the decade I lived through as an adolescent, so each moment was recorded in my developing brain as important and mind-blowing. All I know is that I can remember grunge and Courtney Love, the 4 Non-Blondes, L7, a new general sarcasm with shows like \u003cem>My So-Called Life\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> and movies like \u003cem>Reality Bites,\u003c/em> nerd-heroine Jeanane Garafalo, angry songstress PJ Harvey, weirdo Bjork, Drew Barrymore flashing David Letterman, and Fiona Apple losing it and yelling at everyone at the MTV awards show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking back it seems like it was a good time for girls, but an angry time. And everyone was skinny and on drugs, highlighted by \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Trainspotting\u003c/em>, heroin chic and Kate Moss. On the other hand, we had Lilith Fair and the woman warrior weapon of choice: the acoustic guitar. Suddenly everyone was 'PC', and it seemed like everyone had also recently become bi-sexual. Weirdest of all, dreadlocks enjoyed a rise in popularity, with Ani Di Franco as a poster child for basically all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Ani DiFranco\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-768x766.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ani DiFranco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Soft-Spoken Harpists and Fame-Chasers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can hardly remember anything about the 2000s. I guess once your personal preferences are formed, and your personality cemented, you are free to go about looking back into history to find your tribe. This is when I discovered the Runaways, X, Siouxsie and the Banshees, \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and old horror films. Since I became a punk in this time period, my memory doesn't recall much of the current traditional girl 'pop' culture of the time. I remember that rockabilly had a resurgence, with amazing sculpted girl pompadour beehive things that I wished I could do. Also, there was the band, The Distillers, who took the angry feminism of the '90s and made it more explicit, referencing Susan B. Anthony in their lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGp9g9nJKk&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly what I remember, however, was the bipolar culture of a new way of keeping up with all kinds of the coolest things, amplified by the fact that basically everyone now had the internet and MySpace and a way to broadcast themselves. There was also a very quiet indie culture of soft girliness, like \u003ca href=\"http://lulamag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lula Magazine\u003c/a>, which I think was a reaction from the more sensitive turtles of girl culture. We had the \u003ca title=\"Cobrasnake\" href=\"http://www.thecobrasnake.com\">Cobrasnake\u003c/a> and New York disco pop trumping everything like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Glass Candy, but we also had the \u003cem>Virgin Suicides\u003c/em> and Cat Power and Joanna Newsom, (which was weird because she is from my hometown). There was \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, lest we forget, and a constant push to spend money and keep up, with reality shows like \u003cem>The Hills\u003c/em> and a strange cultural obsession with Paris Hilton. In the end, I think as girls we lost our way again, just like we did last time we had too much money, in the '80s. Girl culture became about labels, the possibility of fame, and the weird alternative reality of Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Paris and Nicole\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris and Nicole\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the economic bottom dropping out. Suddenly we're depressed and we want fantasy. We want crazy outfits and supernatural creatures crawling into our beds at night so we don't think about our chances of finding employment. But we also have taken matters into our own hands and created what we were looking for and hadn't found in the fast-fashion reality mega-plex of the 2000s. Sisters are doing it for themselves, from the cheesy-as-they-might be \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> writers to the genius comic relief we really needed in the form of Poehler and Fey, the self-made videos of Lana Del Rey to the self-produced albums from Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here is to our smart girl writers, directors, bloggers, singers, and everyone in between. Please keep making awesome things, even if not everyone likes you. We need you so that one day when we look back we'll remember our 2010s as the Girl Renaissance, and not think of the Kardashians and Ke$ha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1200x668.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2374\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 271px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2374\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\" width=\"271\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg 584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>A Girl Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls are having a moment. A Girl Renaissance, filled with frumpy young girl directors singing their autobiographical swan songs like Lena Dunham and Miranda July,\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15\" width=\"185\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png 185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM-160x226.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15 \u003ccite>(Instagram/@tavitulle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>doe-eyed, gray-haired ingenue Tavi Gevinson taking street style blogging and turning it into an \u003ca title=\"Empire\" href=\"http://rookiemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empire\u003c/a>, those girl-women of SNL fame writing pee-your-pants movies and TV shows like Kristen Wiig's \u003cem>Bridesmaids\u003c/em> and Tina Fey's \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>, and of course, Zooey Deschanel's media siege with her lame old-timey vocals in the band, \u003cem>She & Him\u003c/em>, and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/08/new-girl-the-sitcom-as-the-new-reality-tv/\">her pretty good show, \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. But wait, how could we forget the other girls dominating our airwaves? The CW TV network is a girl party on crack including \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">the sensationally guilt-pleasurable \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Then we have Lady Gaga, and those other weirdos, Nicki Minaj, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey. Talk about a take-over. I don't even know where the men are anymore. Oh wait. They're combing their beards and wearing flannels, curing meat at home and occasionally resurfacing from their woodland-decorated apartments to eat at restaurants they read about in the NY Times. Girls, the airwaves and internet are yours to command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/gossip-girl-on-steps/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2484\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2484 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg\" alt=\"'Gossip Girl'\" width=\"497\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Gossip Girl'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what is a 'girl' anymore? Something between a little girl and a lady? As a post-teen non-woman, I feel the need to keep the title of girl probably well past its original expiration date because I'd rather be a girl than a woman. Between my anxiety and my jealousy at being only a fringe element of the Girl Renaissance, I have been looking back into the girl culture of my past. I am by no means an authority, but I have put together an incredibly subjective History of Girl Culture (the last 33 years) for your amusement and nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Last 33 Years of Girl Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I was born one year shy of the 1980s, I have no idea what the late '70s were like. I can imagine it sucked as the fight for women's rights continued from the '60s, (well, really the '20s), and you wanted that whole \u003cem>Murphy Brown\u003c/em> thing that you didn't know about yet, but you also just wanted to burn your bra and drop acid and tell your uptight housewife mom to leave you alone. I can only include what I learned about in retrospect about cool girl culture since I was hanging out in utero. Let's leave out disco and roller skating and \u003cem>Three's Company\u003c/em> and focus on the amazing punk subculture of the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg\" alt=\"The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Punks and Vixens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivienne Westwood, Patti Smith, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits, Exene Cervenka, The Runaways, and Siouxsie and the Banshees should all make you embarrassed to be so unoriginal and passive. Between the English punks and the American ones, they had it covered. This documentary, \u003cem>The Decline of Western Civilization\u003c/em>, was directed by punk girl Penelope Spheeris, and captures the gritty, sneering, yet slightly self-conscious and heavily made-up Exene of the band X. As the odd sex out most of the time, girls like her and Siouxsie Sioux were both iconic feminists and potent sex bombs, paving the way as disheveled girl originals of the Courtney Loves who would follow.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gQLe9FdXXXw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gQLe9FdXXXw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Funsters Who Live at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we enter the early '80s, I still can't tell you much from my perspective as a girl unless you want to know about \u003cem>The Smurfs\u003c/em>. But who didn't know about Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, or Pat Benatar, (though \"Hell is For Children\" was particularly alarming)? I mostly remember the \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\" video from \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em>, but the message had broad appeal, even to a six-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PIb6AZdTr-A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PIb6AZdTr-A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also had other iconic all-girl bands like The Go-Gos and The Bangles, and a overriding sense of fun and pop. The songs from Lauper and Madonna still reference their fathers, i.e. \"Papa Don't Preach,\" as if the hardened girls of the punk movement had lent their over-the-top style but not their tough girl message of staking out territory with the boys. It was girls on one side of the dance floor and boys on the other, and then there were the geeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Geeks and Bimbos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2481\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/martha-plimpton/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2481\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Martha-Plimpton.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Plimpton\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Plimpton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/the_breakfast_club_142_thumb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2482\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2482 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Sheedy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat strangely, a geek story plays out in almost all '80s teen culture. Nerdy girls like Martha Plimpton in \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em> or Ally Sheedy in the \u003cem>Breakfast Club\u003c/em> serve as comparison shots to the hot girls and never get the guy, or get him \u003cem>only\u003c/em> after a hot girl takes her under her wing. They are often seen literally comparing their boobs to the other girls in \u003ca title=\"Shower Scenes\" href=\"http://www.anyclip.com/movies/sixteen-candles/caroline-showers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shower scenes\u003c/a>, as men were probably the only ones writing the scripts. All girls in this era, it seems, want to be blond, busty, and heavily shouldered, like the girls in \u003cem>Valley Girl\u003c/em>, Seventeen Magazine, and Blair on the \u003cem>Facts of Life\u003c/em>. Enter heavy metal and the hope we had for self-respect went out the window with Kelly Bundy and groupies everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/christina-applegate-kelly-bundy-married-with-children6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2485 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6-400x272.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we approach the later end of the '80s, i'ts more and more apparent that girls are trying to be \u003cem>women\u003c/em>. The big hair, the big boobs, the way everyone talks about themselves as if they were really serious about everything. It all just made me feel extremely self-conscious. I don't know what happened to the feminists of the '70s. They were probably building communes to get away from all we had done to our own girlhoods, but everyone else was rocking out to dudes who looked like girls and checking out models we had actually learned the names of on the covers of magazines. There \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a few anti-heroes like Winona Ryder in the movie \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>, and for that I am eternally grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yQik7L8Av6w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yQik7L8Av6w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Sarcastic yet Politically Correct \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the '90s now, and boy is it a girl's paradise. We all know how grunge killed metal, at least if you find yourself watching VH1 documentaries on Saturdays, and grunge also killed chauvinism, it would seem. Suddenly we forgot about Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour and even Janet Jackson and Lita Ford. We did tolerate \u003cem>90210\u003c/em> (Ok, I was 11 and I loved it), and the cooler cult classic \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>, but there was a storm brewing and it's name was Girl Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The other British invasion\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other British invasion\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you remember \"Girl Power\" when it was screamed from the stage of this British Goody-barretted monstrosity? Despite how ridiculous they were, especially in all those flared polyester pants, their message was delivered in good faith. \"Girl Power\" was a mantra echoed from these cheeky British mouths to all young girls across the world. As cheesy as that was, in the face of the metal years we had just gone through, we needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/bkbk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2489\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bkbk-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"Bikini Kill\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bikini Kill\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, while this was going on, we had another form of \"Girl Power\" known as Riot Grrl, like Bikini Kill screaming \"Suck my left one!\", among other things. Riot Grrls were mutli-tasker extremists, staying up late to make zines, create record distros, and bake cakes. We also had Riot Grrl Lite like No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" One thing was certain: absolutely everyone was in thrift store clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PHzOOQfhPFg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PHzOOQfhPFg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could go on about the '90s for a million years. It was the decade I lived through as an adolescent, so each moment was recorded in my developing brain as important and mind-blowing. All I know is that I can remember grunge and Courtney Love, the 4 Non-Blondes, L7, a new general sarcasm with shows like \u003cem>My So-Called Life\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> and movies like \u003cem>Reality Bites,\u003c/em> nerd-heroine Jeanane Garafalo, angry songstress PJ Harvey, weirdo Bjork, Drew Barrymore flashing David Letterman, and Fiona Apple losing it and yelling at everyone at the MTV awards show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking back it seems like it was a good time for girls, but an angry time. And everyone was skinny and on drugs, highlighted by \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Trainspotting\u003c/em>, heroin chic and Kate Moss. On the other hand, we had Lilith Fair and the woman warrior weapon of choice: the acoustic guitar. Suddenly everyone was 'PC', and it seemed like everyone had also recently become bi-sexual. Weirdest of all, dreadlocks enjoyed a rise in popularity, with Ani Di Franco as a poster child for basically all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Ani DiFranco\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-768x766.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ani DiFranco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Soft-Spoken Harpists and Fame-Chasers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can hardly remember anything about the 2000s. I guess once your personal preferences are formed, and your personality cemented, you are free to go about looking back into history to find your tribe. This is when I discovered the Runaways, X, Siouxsie and the Banshees, \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and old horror films. Since I became a punk in this time period, my memory doesn't recall much of the current traditional girl 'pop' culture of the time. I remember that rockabilly had a resurgence, with amazing sculpted girl pompadour beehive things that I wished I could do. Also, there was the band, The Distillers, who took the angry feminism of the '90s and made it more explicit, referencing Susan B. Anthony in their lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ODGp9g9nJKk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ODGp9g9nJKk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly what I remember, however, was the bipolar culture of a new way of keeping up with all kinds of the coolest things, amplified by the fact that basically everyone now had the internet and MySpace and a way to broadcast themselves. There was also a very quiet indie culture of soft girliness, like \u003ca href=\"http://lulamag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lula Magazine\u003c/a>, which I think was a reaction from the more sensitive turtles of girl culture. We had the \u003ca title=\"Cobrasnake\" href=\"http://www.thecobrasnake.com\">Cobrasnake\u003c/a> and New York disco pop trumping everything like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Glass Candy, but we also had the \u003cem>Virgin Suicides\u003c/em> and Cat Power and Joanna Newsom, (which was weird because she is from my hometown). There was \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, lest we forget, and a constant push to spend money and keep up, with reality shows like \u003cem>The Hills\u003c/em> and a strange cultural obsession with Paris Hilton. In the end, I think as girls we lost our way again, just like we did last time we had too much money, in the '80s. Girl culture became about labels, the possibility of fame, and the weird alternative reality of Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Paris and Nicole\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris and Nicole\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the economic bottom dropping out. Suddenly we're depressed and we want fantasy. We want crazy outfits and supernatural creatures crawling into our beds at night so we don't think about our chances of finding employment. But we also have taken matters into our own hands and created what we were looking for and hadn't found in the fast-fashion reality mega-plex of the 2000s. Sisters are doing it for themselves, from the cheesy-as-they-might be \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> writers to the genius comic relief we really needed in the form of Poehler and Fey, the self-made videos of Lana Del Rey to the self-produced albums from Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here is to our smart girl writers, directors, bloggers, singers, and everyone in between. Please keep making awesome things, even if not everyone likes you. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"empire_records-600x450\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ryan Adams wrote each of the nine songs on his album \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/44-29/\">29\u003c/a>\u003cem> to represent a different year of his 20s. It was his great exit album and tribute to a tousled and uncertain decade, one that is at the very least, self-defining. I am 29-years-old at this very moment, turning the big 3-0 in May. Lately, I’ve been hearing new songs that have been speaking to me, but not the mature me with a restaurant job and a student loan payment plan, but rather, the 19-year-old me. They are songs I see my weird, boot-cut jean, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/EgRyV8z9ydE\">Kerouac\u003c/a>-obsessed self truly identifying with. Be it their bubbly sound or angsty lyrics, I am taken back to the past me, a similar me, one on the cusp of something. Perhaps this is a perfect case of nostalgia or perhaps it is regression in pure form, but either way, in the following tunes you might recognize something of an old you, someone okay with it not figured out:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1PQB8MXUo&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>HAIM – “Falling”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>The Haim sisters take anachronism very seriously. With small touches of '90s dance and major touches of '80s pop, HAIM evokes the likes of \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/LvdLovAaYzM\">Martika\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t57sSJfpRM8\">Belinda Carlisle\u003c/a> and T’Pau’s \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/SwrYMWoqg5w\">“Heart and Soul.”\u003c/a> It’s difficult not to picture your teenage self upset at the 21 & over limitation of the HAIM show, but it’s quite easy getting your older sibling’s ID, excited at the fact that you have the address down and now only need to know their zodiac sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DLNV1Fs4k&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Javelin – “Light Out”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAdd a cello to any song and I’m there. Add a synthesized cello to any song and I’m totally still there. There’s a \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/wU1CHPo9s8I\">poignant moment\u003c/a> in the cult classic film \u003cem>But I’m A Cheerleader\u003c/em>, when Tattle Tale’s quiet “Glass Vase Cello Case” plays over a particularly intimate scene, the deep string sound creating the perfect tone. While “Light Out” is more Passion Pit than bedroom acoustic, it’s that simple addition of a \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/PCicM6i59_I\">cello\u003c/a> that can turn any romantic moment from awkward to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrmE8se8-w&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Men – “Half Angel Half Light”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor a semester in college, my friend Brian and I were DJs on our campus radio station, \u003ca href=\"http://wgsu.geneseo.edu/\">WGSU The Revolution\u003c/a>. Our time slot was Tuesdays from 2PM-4PM, which we thought was awesome. We mainly stuck to the rules, playing what was required and popular, making sure to state the name of the radio station every four songs, playing PSAs for pet adoption. But there were times we could sneak \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lowest_of_the_Low\">our own CDs\u003c/a> and songs onto the air, rebellious in our own way, hoping the whole world was listening at those moments. “Half Angel Half Light” is the sound of college radio and potentially, college radio DJs: a lo-fi sensibility with punches of defiant energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq19haZ0w7s&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Foxygen – “San Francisco”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUnsure of the origin (except that it’s a Paul Frank \u003ca href=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFjS2krrPrE/S880wBAcdEI/AAAAAAAAAv8/ZdU9CxulqsQ/s1600/Cohen.png\">tee-shirt\u003c/a>), the punk ethos of \u003cem>here are three chords, now start a band\u003c/em> could work well with any genre and there’s definitely something wide-eyed about it. Cut to: Foxygen’s “San Francisco.” The chord changes are ostensibly simple-sounding and novice, the lyrics almost like that of a torch song. Just some kids, probably in their parent’s \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/ISoWy_VY13Y\">garage\u003c/a> or basement, starting something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBn7Tg2iPY&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Youth Lagoon – “Dropla”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBesides the overly-appropriate (and somewhat bad) name of the band, Youth Lagoon makes some pretty commercial-ready music, his syrupy beats and flying vocals perfect for Bing or \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/BIOW9fLT9eY\">Volkswagen\u003c/a>. But with “Dropla,” it’s the looping lyric of the chorus: \u003cem>you will never die\u003c/em> / \u003cem>you will never die \u003c/em>that sells the song for me. What better a mantra for the young?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOXQvUv_u_U&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Devendra Banhart – “Your Fine Petting Duck”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBoy/girl vocals are undeniably cute. When The Postal Service’s \u003cem>Give Up \u003c/em>album was released in 2003, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/5-postal-service-covers-even-better-than-the-funny-or-die-covers/\">“Nothing Better”\u003c/a> was for sure a standout track. The call and response of Ben Gibbard and Jen Wood (super coincidentally of Tattle Tale) is easy on the ears but heavy on the heart, almost as if it was written for the stage. In “Your Fine Petting Duck,” there is the same call and response, similar warm beats -- note the transition from shoe-shuffler to pop Krautdance -- and although it is somewhat lyrically somber, the cute factor here will have you blushing in no time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/60669539?byline=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Waxahatchee – “You’re Damaged”\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left\">When you leave the pyrotechnics at the door, this is wonderfully what you’re left with. Here Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee strums an acoustic guitar and belts out a dirge reminiscent of \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/XqS0mY9rYb0\">Jeff Mangum\u003c/a>, Low, and Bruce Springsteen’s \u003cem>Nebraska. \u003c/em>It’s very: I’m in the kitchen recording this song with a tape recorder I took out from the library and the lyrics are from multiple LiveJournal entries. Crutchfield is fearless. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbw_rmn3GJc\">Young\u003c/a> Cat Power would be proud.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OaT3_skWw&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Frightened Rabbit – “The Woodpile”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen you just need to get in the car and drive. Or, if you’re in a city, take a walk to a train or to a bus and to a body of water and find a bench and sit on it and check out the seagulls or whatever is contemplative. 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The third male roommate is Winston (played by Lamorne Morris), an old friend and former player in a Latvian Basketball League who returns to start a new career and life in the States. Winston’s character seems less defined and sometimes inconsistent (he swings a bit between being overly sensitive and extra manly), and his story arcs are often secondary to the rest of the cast, but it works. He rounds out the cadre of aimless thirty-somethings. Deschanel's Jess has grown on me too, with her sort of nerdy, sweet, naïve, retro, schoolmarmish, \"I'm trying not to look as pretty as I am\" thing going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early gimmick was Schmidt’s douchebag jar (which has thankfully all but receded from the show). During the first season, he had to place a dollar into the jar every time he was called out for saying something ridiculous. 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