Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Even though it happened nearly four decades ago, Take Two host Alex Cohen clearly remembers how awful she felt as a kid every time her friends played "Charlie's Angels."
Inevitably, the same three girls would snatch up the roles of Kelly, Jill and Sabrina and she would be left playing John Bosley. For which she would inevitably be teased. So not cool.
This kind of exclusionary behavior is pretty typical, especially among girls. But recently, psychologists and educators are trying to do more to stop it. It's an issue Sumathi Reddy wrote about for the Wall Street Journal and she joins the show with more.