This week, it’s a battle of the sexes in Sweet Valley when resident rich jerk Bruce—in a transparent bid for more screen time—creates a mysterious, exclusive, boys-only club that is wreaking havoc on the school with their pranks. Naturally Jessica challenges Bruce and his patent Title IX violation, starting a dangerous dare-war and a (devastatingly timely) conversation about sexual politics at Sweet Valley High.

Will Jessica smash the glass ceiling and prove a point about equality? Or will Bruce’s final prank smash Jessica flat on the train tracks??? 

Join us for a discussion of the incoherence of gender categories, the semiotics of menthols, and whether we’d rather be happy or right, in “Can Anything a Boy Can Do, Can a Girl Be Doing It?” (Sweet Valley High 86, Jessica Against Bruce).