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Look at it from a post-Gidget pop-cultural perspective, and the Bush era wasn't such a bad time to be a teenage girl. It was during the late 1980s and early '90s that knowing young women in hair dyed the darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those...
...true, Gidget has a baby boy and his name is Forrest Gump...
Matinee also offers a dislocating representation of Mant's teenage audience. Among them are a straight arrow shunned by his schoolmates, a fast girl, a juvenile delinquent -- the Gidget crowd, in short. A good point is scored about the seepage between the realities of adolescent life and the ways it is portrayed in the media. Finally, Matinee assaults the general goofiness of American life in the period -- bomb shelters, duck-and-cover air-raid drills, general prudishness and even stupid nutritional beliefs...
...struggle to be accepted and find one's circle of friends can be especially hard for minority students, gays, foreign students and others who do not quite fit the model of Gidget Goes to College. Some campus officials are alarmed by the growing evidence of racism among today's students. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst became infamous for racial tension when an October 1986 brawl injured ten students. Now U. Mass.-Amherst freshmen are shown a video about racism and abusive behavior, and this fall's new students' convocation will include remarks concerning the "celebration of differences...
...people who are ill and who can be disabled by this," says the NIH's Straus. "But the percentage is relatively small compared to the claims." Unfortunately for the victims, doctors have few treatments to offer. Stress reduction or sleeping pills may provide some relief. For now, says Gidget Faubion, who runs a 9,000-member support group for the afflicted that is based in Portland, Ore., most sufferers must learn to accept the severity of their condition. Says she: "If you don't change your attitude, you're going to make a suicide call to me within six months...