Lisa mentions "the Faludi book". In 1991, Susan Faludi's book 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women' won the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a national best seller. It argued that the advances of women's rights in the 1970s had triggered an anti-women backlash in the general media of the 1980s. The book was highly influential and controversial. It was ruthlessly attacked by the conservative media that Faludi's book condemned.
Several local CBS affiliates chose to not air this episode due to scenes depicting same-sex kissing and the overall subject matter of bi-sexuality,rather broadcasting other local or preempted programs in it's place.
The title is a line from a popular nursery rhyme. "What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice, That's what little girls are made of."