Parents and other authority figures are absent, distracted or virulently disapproving. Friendships are torn asunder by hormones. It's John Hughes all over again. I guess it was supposed to be a tribute. Jen's bad girl past, however, hangs around her like a whiff of stale Shalimar.
Boy sex is good, girl sex is bad.
The writers court teen viewers with scene after scene of broadly drawn adult prigs calling Jen a slut and lecturing about the evils of teenage sexuality. But then Jen voices the same sentiments. Sex at an early age is generally not a good idea. Talk about having it both ways. But what comes across here isn't the universality of adolescent experience, but the singularity of Williamson's experience.