- 1. Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
- (Living)
- ... going wrong. Unsellable moldy product, toxic control over the consultants’ appearances (including encouraging weight-loss surgeries), stolen artwork, and a suffocating insistence on continual positivity ...
- Created on 23 September 2021
- 2. Emma Watson Says She's "Self-Partnered, Not Single." And We Are Too N
- (Feminism)
- ... at 30 might make women reconsider and challenge strict language that can be suffocating. Rather than calling herself single, she prefers to use the term “self-partnered.” While that term may sound funny ...
- Created on 05 November 2019
- 3. What The Public Outcry Over Sulli’s Death Tells Us About Toxic K-Pop Media and Fans
- (Feminism)
- ... Entertainment) wasn’t subject to criticism and bullying in the way Sulli was, he still struggled with severe mental issues and clearly lacked the support he needed within the often suffocating constraints ...
- Created on 18 October 2019
- 4. Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
- (Living)
- ... throat. This actually worked, but unfortunately sometimes his patients had a nasty habit of suffocating to death before the tapeworm could be fully removed. It’s because of incidents like this that ...
- Created on 08 August 2019
- 5. A Ugandan Feminist Wrote A Poem About A Vagina, Then She Was Arrested
- (Feminism)
- ... you are suffocating us with oppression, suppression and repression!. . . Drowned you as vilely as you have sank and murdered the dreams and aspirations of millions of youths who languish in the deep sea ...
- Created on 09 July 2019
- 6. Aphrodisiacs, Elixirs, And More Dubious Medicines Of The Victorian Era
- (Living)
- ... exercising her power) within the confines of suffocating societal constraints. To that end, patent medicines were just another weapon in her limited arsenal. Of course, some, like Jane Austen in her unfinished ...
- Created on 29 August 2018
- 7. What Happened After Calla Hales Spoke Out About Her Rape In Cosmo: BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- ... no one wanted to acknowledge it. It was this suffocating silence. The most entertaining instance was when a woman thanked me for sharing my story while I was in Lush buying anti-chafing powder. Your ...
- Created on 01 December 2017
- 8. 11 Books By Women To Read This November
- (Books)
- ... the suffocating atmosphere of living with a chronic illness through run-on sentences and quickly shifting perspectives. It’s an exquisite example of what Sontag was capable of when she was allowed to bend ...
- Created on 14 November 2017
- 9. How Women Directors Show The Nuanced Reality Of Female Friendship
- (Movies)
- ... weighed against the history of a life spent together. “I don’t like what I am with you, we are suffocating each other," Holly finally musters the courage to say. “There is no me without you," cries out ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
- 10. This Is Your Official Permission Slip
- (Feminism)
- ... narrow, suffocating channel. And while I know that you already know all this, sometimes it's nice to have a little reminder handy as you walk the halls of this brutal, dystopian, nightmare junior high school ...
- Created on 11 April 2017
- 11. Goodbye, President Hillary
- (Feminism)
- ... most clearly, not Bill.” And so I have spent a good deal of the last two months balancing coming to terms with the horrific reality that Trump will be President (still not real) with the agonizing, suffocating ...
- Created on 19 January 2017
- 12. The Tragedy Of Victorian Seamstress Mary Walkley's Untimely Deat
- (Style)
- ... Describing the suffocating accommodations at Madame Elise’s establishment, the “Tired Dressmaker” writes: “At night we retire to rest in a room divided into little cells, each just large enough to contain ...
- Created on 03 January 2017
- 13. I Became A Mom At 15: BUST True Story
- (Living)
- ... The fear of responsibility for another human was overwhelming. The self-pressure to be perfect was suffocating. But an overwhelming warmth of love flowing through my body made me strive for it. Every ...
- Created on 21 June 2016
- 14. Redefining The 'Strong Woman
- (Feminism)
- ... Accepting this silences our inner voices and signs us up for a suffocating life. Social order and moral guardians believe a self-sacrificing and compromising woman is “strong." Look around you; examples ...
- Created on 20 June 2016
- 15. My So-Called Chub: BUST True Story
- (Living)
- ... my chub gave me an adorable daffiness; I smile through suffocating cheeks and duckling-like lips. But as soon I was introduced to the concepts of sexuality and personal value, what was once a charming, ...
- Created on 25 May 2016
- 16. Where Do All The Girls Go?
- (Feminism)
- ... few people who doesn’t make me feel ashamed that I haven’t snapped out of my sadness. Frankly, I don’t want piles of new friends nor do I want singular, suffocating ones — I’ve lived in the extremes and ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 17. Cosmopolitan UK's Suffocating Magazine Cover Is Terrifying and Beautiful ...
- (Feminism)
- ... February issue with a limited edition cover. It will feature the visceral image of a girl suffocating within the magazine’s plastic wrapping. The limited print is accompanied by an ad campaigne video that ...
- Created on 16 January 2015
- 18. Feminism vs. Dating: Why Are They At Odds?
- (Feminism)
- ... a constant reminder of how suffocatingly confining gender roles are and how immobilizing male entitlement renders me in the dating game. Did you think I was kidding?!? Being a young feminist ...
- Created on 12 June 2014
- 19. Afternoon Delight Director Jill Soloway Talks Feminism, Friendship, and Filmmaking
- (Movies)
- ... Hahn). In the film, the thirty-something mom finds herself trapped in a suffocating life; her husband constantly works (and their sex life is nonexistent), she feels detached from her son, and her once ...
- Created on 30 August 2013
- 20. 'Girls' Recap: Assume the (Fetal) Positio
- (TV)
- ... if I could’ve sued HBO if I ended up suffocating on the throw pillow I was holding in front of my face during that entire scene and passing out and hitting my head on the coffee table and possibly drawing ...
- Created on 11 March 2013
