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In Minute 64 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike talk about the minute entirely contained within a young teenage girl’s bedroom, including the disdain for young girls’ pop sensibilities in the rock and roll press, the conscious callback to Todd Haynes’s controversial Barbie-doll epic Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, the heterosexual capitalist semiotics of playing with your Ken and Barbie dolls and the queer inversion of Barbie and Ken through parody dolls and reappropriations of the real Ken, and then we talk about the origins of slash fiction in the pages of Star Trek ‘zines and fanfiction’s expansion into Usenet and the origins of many of fanfiction’s signal terms on alt.tv.x-files, and then the political stance of fanfiction, and the further criticism of bad fanfiction on Livejournal and among MST3K fans. And then we wrap up with a look at T. Rex’s “Diamond Meadows,” which plays over the scene.
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