TRP, Deviance, Lil Gurls

[Sean Peter Genell]

        Follow me:
        Slipping through the aisles of the local grociery, eyes falling on
the covers of various pedestrian how-to and who-did-what magazines and the
dollar-twenty-five spectacles (nifty lil books about reading palms and
cure-impingent herbal diets; one fascinating title: "Name Your Baby!"), my
sister and I come across our dearly beloved bathroom reading material: Sassy
Magazine. Yup: Sassy offers pretty interesting angles on cultcha as well as
functions of societal-placement and roles, tips on how-to-get-that-boy, and
fine make-up techniques. Figgering I could be arrested for _even_ reading
Sassy Magazine (i am, after all, a 24yr old male), I stuffed it under my
shirt and left the store, hey. . .
        My sister and I, we play like this: tear through the magazine once,
looking for the most obvious twisted natures of projected stereotypes and
laugh deliciously at all those sixteen yr old girls (ho-ho, spending my
time, ho-ho-ho!). And then we read through it again, this time picking up on
the more moral-based treatments (animal rights testing, "Are You a Liar?",
"Girl, 15, Contracts HIV After Having Sex Just ONCE!"), heh-heh, a little
more fascinated now that we're dealing with their ideologies, Maldororian
chanting, rising from our chests as we breathe a little faster now. .
.Incidentally, the article which follows the HIV expose is a
Love-Quiz-of-the-month. You Know: are you dating the right guy? is _he_
dating the right girl? type-of-thing. . .So, my sister and I take this
test--hah-ah!!--and I happen upon quiz question number 8:

         8. He [your boyfiend] starts spending all his free time
             rebuilding a beat-up old car (he calls it a classic). You:
                 a) hang out in the garage with him -- handing him
                     tools and stuff.
                 b) give him a month of complete "classic" submersion
                     [hmm. . .], then convince him that your classy chassis
                     needs attention, too.
                 c) tackle a Pynchon novel to fill up the time he spends 
                    working on that heap.

      gah: no kidding: April issue, page 50. Sassy Magazine.


        satchel.
                                


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~~~Sean Peter Genell~~~~~~~~~~
~~~Que sais-je?~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~satchel at nwu.edu~~~~~~~~~~~
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