[overflow] Re: GHHS

["Kay Shapero" <kayshapero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Gold <leeway@mediaone.net> wrote;
>
> The girls of junior high/high school try to be popular
> -- and at least used to equate that with getting love/approval
> from the older popular kids.  In the 1950s, this also meant
> girls pretending to be dumb because boys didn't want a girlfriend
> who got higher grades.  In the 1950s, it meant girls being
> "good" and staying virgin, or getting ephemeral popularity
> by having sex.  This is said to have changed but I'm not at all
> sure how much things are really different.  So girls boast
> about the great date they went out on and how sweet their
> boyfriend is and the new clothes and jewelry they've got
> and how they're learning to use makeup and shave their legs
> -- or at least that's how it was in the 1950s.
>

I think this carried over into the early '60s; judging by some of my
classmates.  On the whole I preferred to hang out with boys; they were more
likely to be interested in science, science fiction and similar fun stuff.
Pretty much as "one of the guys"; I didn't start dating until I was in
college.  Of course this was partly because I was pretty unpopular in jr
high/ hs for all the usual reasons, but in retrospect I'm just as glad I
didn't really develop a sexual interest in guys until I was an adult.  I
probably would have made considerably more serious romantic mistakes as a
teen than than I did as a 23 year old.