Jem and the Holograms

So, this is the first posting EVER of my blog and I must say that I have many months?days?years? to get caught up.  I am a scientist-in-training doing breast cancer research at a university that's kind of a big deal *snicker*.  However, my passion, my love, my movement is to express my self through writing.  Over the years, I've accumulated pages and pages of emotion, and life, and friends, and cocktails :) and I have sooo much to say.  Because of the oddity of how I interpret life, I've always considered myself a misfit of sorts, never really fitting to any single mold.  At times, I think I'm blessed to not walk around as an empty shell,refusing to be carried in the winds of a society that boasts of domesticism and a never-ending race for money.  And in those times, the strangest (and often funniest, lol) things cross my mind which I think should be shared...so here goes...

Let's start with Jem and the Holograms.  Does anyone remember this show from the '80s?  For some reason, this cartoon crossed my mind a couple of weeks ago and I began to wonder about it.  I know that it was one of my favs but all I really could remember was this rocker with pink hair with special star earrings that made her turn into someone else.  So I decided to refresh my memory and watched a couple of episodes that I managed to find on youtube;  ok, who am I kidding, I got sucked into watching for a couple hours, it was addictive.  So here's where it gets interesting.   This cartoon was based on a girl (Jerica) who inherits this machine that can change her into a leader of a "punk" rock band (Jem) who is all of a sudden prettier and much cooler.  The most dysfunctional part is that Jerica's boyfriend, Rio falls in love with Jem...umm what??? Yeah that's right, so Jem and Rio start a relationship and meanwhile he still dates Jerica, when she's not Jem...ummm what???

This KIDS' cartoon is based on a girl that can change herself into someone that her boyfriend cheats on her with..yes, her boyfriend cheats on her with herself. Think about this for a second.

Then every episode we're left wondering if she's going to have the nerve to tell her boyfriend that she's Jem.  She never does because she's terrified that he'll dump her for being dishonest...what???...I mean really, what was he going to do, dump her and start dating her other self exclusively??? Simply crazy!!

I was speaking with my best friend about this and we came to realize that Jem and the Holograms is just the beginning of the way, we as adult women, think about men.  Even in cartoons that we watched as kids, we were taught that it's okay to stay with a cheating boyfriend as long you're not being dishonest. What?? So, yes ladies, we concluded that all of our problems started with Jem and the Holograms...nonetheless, I think I want to be her for Halloween...you see what I mean?! Simply crazy!!!