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...Angie C. Marek, I still dream of one childhood hero whose life I wouldn’t mind adopting. That person is a rock star, a philanthropist and a successful CEO all wrapped into one neat, pink-haired package. That person is Jem...
...Jem and the Holograms” was a group of five dolls originally created by Hasbro in 1985. When Jem first debuted on shelves, she was meant to serve as the antiBarbie and had a lot more going on than the other dolls in her cohort. She even came with a nice little background story to prove it. Little girls everywhere were fed the tale of Jem: pop diva by night, successful Starlight Records CEO Jerrica Benton by day. Always generous, Benton even donated all of the profits of Starlight Records to an orphanage. But the coolest part about Benton...
...still stunned by my childhood superhero, especially when I consider her deftness in the art of multi-tasking. In her world of non-reality, Jem did more for orphans than most dedicated volunteers. But even with these achievements, Jem inspires my adoration for a different accomplishment—namely, being the best female role model in the rock industry I’ve seen to date. Her personal life was intact and PG—we all knew that Jerrica/Jem would be forever faithful to her hunky boyfriend-cum-stage-manager Rio. Even when Jem whipped out the overly-skimpy...
Jem’s greatest contribution, however, was her ability to show young girls they could exert influence in the world that was the 1980s. Jem came out just four years after the birth of MTV, and her cartoon show demonstrated that female-dominated bands could have kick-ass rock videos. The hour-long show was specked with music video sequences, each one carrying the mark of MTV. Even Starlight Records was a beacon of hope to young women. Through her work as Jerrica the CEO, Jem showed young girls that the booming big business world...
...little girls today look up to the ever-troubled and half-naked Britney, the not-so-there-anymore Spice Girls or the (gasp) billion-dollar grossing Olsen twins, I’m still standing behind Jem. And somehow, I don’t think that’s so truly-truly-truly outrageous...