What's this about?
Gloria Steinem — journalist, co-founder of Ms. magazine, and the most visible face of American second-wave feminism for half a century — has died at 92.
What exactly was her role?
She fused journalism and movement-building: the undercover Playboy Bunny exposé, Ms. as a mass-market feminist institution, decades as the movement's most recognizable public advocate.
Why is this worth noting?
HN 141 points, 61 comments — an unusual obituary thread for a tech forum, mostly personal reflections on how thoroughly the arguments she mainstreamed became the water everyone swims in.