May 1990 Teen Life: Pets, Fishbowls & Tortured Moms

Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

It's time to crack open a brand-new (33-year-old) issue of Sassy! A lovely profile of Cara Dunne, a blind Harvard student, is chased by the horror show of Karen's report on volunteering at a vet's office. Kim has the brilliant brainstorm of soliciting stories of her colleagues' teen cruelty to their moms, and THEN reaching out to said moms for comment. Christina goes to Hawaii to interview some world-class surfers about the sport. And the rest of the Teen Life topics are a rich tapestry too: we do a tight ten on the bizarre photo choice for Body Talk; critique the What He Said respondents on their stories of standing up dates; sit with the deep thoughts of Stuff You Wrote; and more! Call your mom, then listen!
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TOPICS

🎧 It Is May 1990
🎧 Feature: Blue Is The Color Of The Grass
🎧 Feature: What Vets Do
🎧 Feature: How To Drive Your Mother Crazy
🎧 Fiction: One To Twenty-Six
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 Help
🎧 It Happened To Me: Presumably White Girl Discovers Some People Aren’t Wealthy
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Feature: We Take Surfers Seriously
NOTES

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

📰 Cara Dunne-Yates's obituary in the Los Angeles Times

🪦 The Cara Dunne-Yates memorial in Snowmass Village, Colorado

🏄‍♀️ Pam Burridge on the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk Of Fame

👄 Generations: A Century Of Women Speak About Their Lives by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich

💀 Renee K. (Kotche) Bachman's obituary

🤩 Tara's piece on Starstruck at Cracked.com