suicide
Tell Siri you want to kill yourself, mention specific methods of suicide, or ask about suicide assistance, and Siri will bring up the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
disability rights
To be a disabled child, or a disabled adult who needs supportive care, is to know that your life is literally in the hands of the people you rely on to love and care for you. And those people may well think that murdering you would be doing you a favor.
protest
If I see/hear/encounter/smell/touch one more instance of this “we are all” bull-pucky, I swear on a stack of ice cream that I am going to lose it.
sexism
Men are universal, women are not, and books about women are niche or genre novels, rather than being serious contenders for Next Great American Novel Status.
rape culture
Like a shocking number of rape victims in the United States and around the world, she was intimidated into silence, and she chose to recant her accusation rather than follow through in response to the immense pressure on her to take it back.
makeup
The problem here wasn’t with the makeup, but with who was wearing it.
politics
The up side to a massive surveillance state? FUNNY JOKES ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
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Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00pm | 51 comments

teens
She’s not the only young woman speaking out about birth control, body image, and a host of other issues that affect teens, and yet she’s constantly hearing the message that there are no young feminists, and no politically engaged youth.
books
Because you know what, some of us like to sulk in the cabana and curse the bright glowing thing in the sky while we read.
politics
Ellen Sturtz wasn't just rude. She also wasted $500 on a pointless exercise.