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"I think Daria was one of the more interesting mainstream television characters to come along in a long time," Thompson said.

"Daria," MTV's 1990s animated series about a smart, sarcastic, drably dressed girl with an aversion to the popular clique, proved that blond cheerleaders weren't the only girls on TV worth watching.

More recently, some women's magazines have shown they're above surgically enhanced cover girls and the how-to-please-your-man-in-100 ways genre of advice.

This past summer, Marie Claire magazine chided recent cover girl Ashlee Simpson for getting a nose job after she told the magazine how much she appreciated the looks God gave her.

And in its October issue, Jane magazine addressed the trend toward skimpy, scanty Halloween costumes.

In "Enough With the Slutty Costumes," Stephanie Trong writes, "Girls love to dress like sluts on Halloween. Whatever their costume, they always find a way to stipperfy it, no matter how ludicrous the concept. Like 'sexy cop,' 'sexy zombie,' 'sexy Army cadet,' or … 'sexy shoe saleswoman.' It's always one big pleather, vinyl and fishnet stockings长袜 — a close-fitting covering for the leg fest everywhere you turn."

Fed up, Trong decided to defy convention on a recent Halloween. She ditched her sexy French maid女仆 — a woman servant get-up, donned a heavy, raggedy, head-to-toe rabbit suit, and went to a costume party where she refused to reveal her identity.