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The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.
  • Vanity sizing, yes, but.....

    ....do we really have to have them described as "a perfect size whatever"?? What is perfect? I just looked at my old high school yearbook (70s) the other day and it was just amazing how few overweight girls there were....or underweight for that matter. Still, I remember being insecure about my body even back then. I can't even imagine what a basket case I would have been if we had had a fraction of the body-obsessing media prescriptive b.s. that we have today.