February 1990 Teen Life: Divorce, Dude Defects & A New Sassiest Girl In America

Apr 18, 2023, 09:00 AM

It's a hat on a hat for Sassiest Girl #2 -- and more!

Thirteen months have gone by since Sassy crowned Rinnan its first Sassiest Girl In America, so it's time to pick a new one from a notably smaller field of finalists. Did we agree with the judges' choice? (Would we bring it up here if we did?) Catherine reports on a woman who was divorced before she was old enough to vote. Kim France makes her debut with a confusing piece on "dude defects." Karen tries her hand at fiction again. All this, plus What He Said about fantasy women, an It Happened To Me that's more It Happened To Dad, a Stuff You Wrote that inspires musical interpretation, and much much more!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is February 1990

🎧 Feature: Four Of The Sassiest Girls In America

🎧 Feature: Diary Of A Marriage

🎧 Feature: The 7 Deadly Dude Defects

🎧 Feature: Beauty Pageants Are A Lot Like The Army

🎧 Fiction: 10-4 Good Buddy

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 What He Said: Who Is Your Fantasy Woman?

🎧 Help

🎧 It Happened To Me: Father Was Having Surgery During 1989 California Earthquake

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

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

📌 Kellie Feltman on Pinterest

💻 Kellie Feltman's website

📄 Kellie Feltman's CV

🦠 Club Stain on @ThisDayInDanzig on Twitter

👩🏼‍⚕️ Dr. Gina Marie DeGiovanni on Vitals.com

🐮 Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw

📷 Cathy Davies on Flickr

🤠 Cowgirl (NYC)

🥸 Groucho Club

🤓 “A Brief History Of The Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’” at TaskAndPurpose.com

👓 “5 Struggles Those Who Wore BCGs Will Remember” at Military.com

🕶️ On BCGs getting a redesign, at NPR.org

😎 Shop "birth control glasses army" at EyeBuyDirect.com

💃 The 1989 Miss Teen USA Pageant on YouTube

🔴 Our May 1989 Teen Life episode, in which we discussed Karen's last published fiction piece, "Red"

🫥 WXII reports on the current Adderall shortage

🐦 Chris Connelly on Twitter

📷 Chris Connelly on Instagram

📷 Period Pals Austin on Instagram

🩺 Gillian Zaharias Miller, PhD on EcoCenter.org

☣️ Dr. Zaharias Miller's paper on detecting hazardous chemicals in consumer products

🇺🇸 Mr. Show flag desecration sketch on YouTube

🎙️ Tara's interview with The Drew Barrymore Show's co-head writer Cristina Kinon at Cracked.com

☺️ Swear2Care