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The Buffy Effect

Or, a tale of cleavage and marketing

Article by Rachel Fudge, appeared in issue Issue #10; published in 1999; filed under Broadcast; tagged Buffy, tv.

In the early 1990s, vampire mythology, horror revival, teen angst, and kick-ass grrlness congealed in a new figure in the pop culture pantheon of the paranormal: the vampire slayer. Not just any vampire hunter, mind you, but Buffy, the Valley-dwelling teenage slayer.

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Editors' Letter: Issue 10

"How Do You Feel About Porn?"

When we put this question into our reader survey, we expected a wide variety of responses. And we got them.  

“I write it/act in it”: 6 percent 
“I like to look at it”: 36 percent 

“It’s ok for other people, but it’s not my bag”: 30 percent 

“I don’t like it, but what other people do is their business”: 20 percent 

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Scrambled Signals

Rivka Ketzel Solomon reﬂects on a childhood deﬁned by her parents’ activism, Ms. magazine, and T&A tv

Article by Rivka Ketzel Solomon, Illustrated by Hugh D Andrade, appeared in issue Fighting Back; published in 1999; filed under Activism; tagged activism, childhood, comics, family, gender roles, media, second wave, socialization, tv, tv women, why pop culture matters, wonder woman.

When i was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, it didn’t matter that my parents were some of the earliest feminist leaders on the East Coast, that I grew up watching their activism from up close, or that I saw them live (not just profess) equality between the sexes. It didn’t matter that I was a girl hooked on Ms. magazine from the very first year it was out, that I regularly flipped through my mom’s copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves, or that I ravenously collected Wonder Woman comic books.

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