“Attempts to feel better rarely translate well into 140 characters. Rather than immediately shareable or aesthetically beguiling, narratives of recovery are difficult and complex and ugly. Women trying to help themselves are ugly, as is any effort shown by a woman. To care, to want, regardless of optics or popularity, is something women are constantly denigrated for.

This is particularly worrying in the way the movement fetishizes bad relationships, in there being something g...lamorous or romantic about being treated shittily by men, and to keep wanting them all the same. Of course, this is reality: People can and will lust after those who have treated them badly. There is a certain luxury in longing for something you cannot fully have. But it’s that this, again, is championed as something that is a core tenet of being a girl, that womanhood is defined by sitting and waiting and yearning. That this is normally expressed as waiting for guys to text you back, or give you the time of day at all, not only seems to reinforce sexist ways of thinking about how men and women should communicate, but also emphasizes the heteronormativity behind the movement. Just as Lana Del Rey’s songs and videos pine over daddy figures and emotionally-unavailable bad-boys, the Sad Girl movement seems to define the female experience as something that hinges on male interaction, a subtle exclusion of girls who don’t date men.”

“What always seems to come through in so many of these critical commentaries about the supposed “snowflakes” is fear. Fear of being vulnerable. Fear of looking like anything less than authoritative, of being asked to learn something new, of maybe not always knowing the answer, of perhaps even being wrong, of seeing the world through the eyes of those you’ve sought to distance yourself from—and finding something worthwhile there. To be open in this way can be scary for a teach...er, especially for those who go through life with the privilege of assumed authority, but it makes for more honest teaching, and certainly better learning.

“From all my research, it quickly became evident that ADHD thrives on a lack of structure. This article, then, is a guide that talks about how I created a sort of structure in my life that helps me to become more effective.

“Structure,” meaning a system of organization that helps me both set and meet my goals. And “effective,” meaning that whatever I put in place is helping me to reach the goals that I set — based on whatever standard makes sense to me. Society often define...s “productivity” as completing as many tasks as possible; I define “productivity” as creating the circumstances (and structures) that allow you to be effective and balanced as you do the work.

“Journalists’ continuing obsession with the goings-on at colleges plays directly into the hands of right-wing activists. Student activists and the columnists who derive pleasure from scolding their protesting tactics are easy prey for publicity-hungry provocateurs. Right-wing campus organizations, which receive far more outside funding than their left-wing equivalents, are designed to create these controversies. Campus conservatives and figures like Yiannopoulos have mastered... the art of encouraging a response from campus liberals at no real danger to themselves, casting themselves as victims and then crying “free speech” to the media. Last month, Mother Jones’ Josh Harkinson explained that these tactics have been repurposed from the left. “Supporters of Trump-boosting media provocateurs Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter have gleefully taken their cue from the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s,” Harkinson wrote. College Republicans and alt-right street brawlers alike have adopted the strategies laid out in Saul Alinsky’s 1971 book Rules for Radicals. Rule number 4: “Make opponents live up to their own book of rules.” And nothing, not racism, not sexism, not outright fascism, gets elite liberals as upset as a perceived violation of an unwritten rule.

“The produce section of the grocery store is a botanical disaster. Most people know that a tomato is technically a fruit, but so is an eggplant, a cucumber, and a spaghetti squash. A banana, which grows from a flower with a single ovary, is actually a berry, while a strawberry, which grows from a flower with several ovaries, isn’t a berry at all but an aggregate fruit. The most confusing classification, though, will start showing up on American shelves this month. Shoppers wi...ll find mission figs with the grapes, kiwis, and other fruit, but a clever botanist would sell them at the florist, with the fresh-cut roses. Although many people dismiss figs as a geriatric delicacy or the sticky stuff inside bad cookies, they are, in fact, something awesome: enclosed flowers that bloom modestly inward, unlike the flamboyant showoffs on other plants. Bite a fig in half and you’ll discover a core of tiny blossoms.”

“I don’t know at what point I started accepting whatever treatment I got. But I can tell you that now that I’ve had positive psychiatric experiences, I’m unwilling to go back to the days where I was a passive and jaded patient.

I can see the difference a good psychiatrist can make.

The sense of agency, trust, and validation I feel is absolutely priceless – and with each new success, I’m grateful for the amazing clinicians out there who make it a point to respect and uplift us..., not perpetuating the harm and abuse that psychiatry can so often enact on mentally ill people.

“Jews are disproportionately represented in the leadership of the radically intersectional women’s march. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter was born and raised a Jew. Jews are taking it upon themselves to speak out against racism against Asian students who are profiled in the college admissions process because we remember when we, as a community, were profiled in the college admissions process.

But none of this should have to be said. If no Jews ever lifted a finger f...or another community, it wouldn’t make anti-Semitism, or standing idly by anti-Semitism, morally permissible. One commenter put it perfectly. “We shouldn’t have to participate in other movements in order to get basic respect. It feels like we are the only group whose intersectionality is conditional on how much we do for others,” she wrote.

“So here’s the paradox: Anti-Semitism and Jewish privilege are, and have long been, two sides of the same coin. Even now, I feel it keenly.

On the one hand, Jews as a category are thus far shielded from the state violence that a lot of other groups are experiencing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not seeking us out as a group; we are not being barred from the military or being singled out in a travel ban. Although of course there are Jews of all levels of economic sec...urity in this country, American Jews as a collective do have a lot more social and cultural capital than many other groups, and we are not as vulnerable as other communities under attack. The reasons are various; a big one, though, is that many American Jews’ families have been established here for a century or more and, over that time, Ashkenazi Jews were able to assimilate into the broader culture and “become white.”