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[BraveMaroon]

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

Sassy? I don't remember this at all, but I remember & read the other magazines mentioned. What was it?

[33girl]

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

[barbino]

OK- now I understand- this magazine was "After my time."
I still get In Style, though.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

I was in the 7th grade when that mag came out. My sister ordered it in a school magazine drive. She got one issue, and my dad was so offended that he promptly canceled her subscription.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

Ha! That's funny - I don't even remember the sorority article - clearly, it didn't impact me!

What I do remember is an article about what it feels like to be "turned on", and that it caused a huge stink with some parents, but my mother (a nurse and a hippie) thought it was honest and well-written and that's what prompted her to get me a subscription.

And yes, Jane Pratt definitely let it go to her head.

That said, Sassy had some great fiction, it was irreverent, and was a little less fashion focused than Seventeen.

I read it for about three years...