When a new generation of young women became the target audience, and the Internet provided more accurate measurements of interest, political action, feminism and intersectionality, body image, and cultural appropriation were shoehorned into the same categories. There were countless debates about whether a story about body shaming belongs in the section marked fashion, or whether campus assault could be filed under health. The labels were useless, outdated, but still slow to be replaced. As an editor, I could have fought or merely suggested a change. But there were more pressing priorities, and
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