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Stop Talking About Sad Girls and Sad Gays

Stop Talking About Sad Girls and Sad Gays

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Virginia Heffernan
Feb 28, 2023
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An oil painting of a young woman dressed in a flowing, white dress sitting on a chair with a red drape. An easel rests on her knees and she is evidently drawing. She is gazing directly at the observer.
Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes by Marie-Denise Villers. (Wiki)

On Saturday night, MSNBC aired one of its near-daily segments about female and LGBTQ teenagers and their shattered mental health. Everyone seems to agree that there’s a flat-out catastrophe. 

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