purgatory

Treatable disease

Preventable famine

Leaving homeless people in the freezing cold while houses sit empty

Imperialist wars

Suicide due to alienation

Crimes of desperation committed by working-class people

Ecological disasters such as the gulf oil spill

Environmental destruction such as global warming

Dangerous consumer products

Wage slavery, sweatshop labor and other forms of genocidal work

Colonialism, and the murder and enslavement of native peoples

Like, let’s go over a list of all the terrible things teenage girls have done:

Volunteered for the first line of defense at the Battle of Stalingrad to fight against Nazis.

Invented science fiction.

Rode twice as far as Paul Revere, in the pouring rain and alone, to alert americans to the approaching british during the Revolutionary War.

Pioneered the art of investigative journalism, and its use as a tool of social justice.

Turned the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.

Put themselves in the line of fire, often literally, in order to help end injustice.

Organized a student strike that helped spark Brown v. Board.

Hid from the Nazis in an annex for two years and found such great poignancy in their experience that their ordinary day-to-day-thoughts have become world famous.

Led lewis and Clark across the North American continent— while pregnant/raising a child.

Worked to desegregate schools in 1835, as well as to end slavery

Helped found the ACLU and fought for women’s suffrage; also, got arrested for being radical socialists.

Wrote the first known work of literature by an American black person.