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For women of a certain age, videos like this one from Journey – where obsessed dudes were somehow, for one moment in time, convincingly cool (admit it, some of you out there once thought Steve Perry was “rad”) — did a lot of damage to the work of wise fathers trying to mold their daughters to have good judgment about men. Be glad your daughter wasn’t raised on Eighties MTV, Derb.