Special Edition Readers Request: Logan's Story
Logan Bruno, resident boy baby-sitter, is dealing with some sexist bullshit. Everyone from his football teammates to his own dad are uncomfortable with the fact that he’s part of the BSC.
SMH. Meanwhile, the BSC is swamped with existing and new clients, and Dawn is going to California for a couple of weeks to help Jeff recover from a ruptured appendix. Kristy declares a state of emergency, and the BSC beg Logan to take Dawn’s place as a full-fledged member while she’s in California. He agrees and then immediately regrets it.
At his sitting job with the Hobarts, he’s playing an intense camping game with Mathew and Johnny in the front yard when some of his football teammates ride by on their bikes and make fun of him. They’re basically the bullies from Hocus Pocus. Then Mary Anne brings Jenny and Andrea Prezzioso to the track where Logan is practicing with a few friends, and Jenny causes a big embarrassing scene. Later, Logan gets razzed again when he takes the Hobart boys to “play track.” The bullies call him “Lois, the new member of the Baby-sitters Club.” At the next practice Logan attends, almost all of his teammates are hurling sexist comments his way; the only one who stands up for him is Austin Bentley. (Let me just say that I am very disappointed in Pete Black.) Logan is getting really fed up. And I’M getting fed up with Logan’s dad saying “boys will be boys.” You mean “boys will be assholes and we can excuse them for that,” Mr. Bruno? NOT ON MY WATCH.
Finally, after a frustrating incident at the health fair that several of Logan’s teammates bear witness to, Logan resigns from the Baby-sitters Club. He doesn’t sit with the gals at lunch; they’re not on bad terms, but Logan thinks they’d be madder at him if he wasn’t still dating Mary Anne. Meanwhile, he keeps fending off insults from some of his teammates until he decides to barb back and then just shake it off. This helps a bit, especially because track tryouts have finally arrived and Logan’s nervous enough about that. When it’s time for his event, the 100-yard dash, he realizes he has a cheering section - it’s the BSC and a bunch of charges, including the younger Hobart boys. Instead of being annoyed, it makes him feel good, and he beats his biggest bully, King, in the event. He finally comes to his senses and rejoins the BSC as an associate member, and all is right in the world of Bruno again. But I am going to need Logan to present a PowerPoint to his father about sexism and misogyny. Maybe in the next Special Edition Logan book.
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