This week, rumor(s?) are flying around Sweet Valley High as everyone tries to figure out mysterious Susan Stewart’s real background—is her mother secretly a movie star? Foreign royalty? A murderer? An upholstergeist (duh, a ghost in a chair)? Turns out, it doesn’t matter at all because her dad is a famous director, and men are the only people who matter anyway! We really dodged a bullet there!

Join us as we talk about families as an economic construct, women’s work, timekeeping, geriatric pregnancies, and frittata on “You’re Gonna Enable” (Sweet Valley High #37, Rumors).