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Our Favorite Book Title, Part 19I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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The larger context of "Normal At Any Cost" is the medical-industrial complex' quest to manipulate darn near everything.
It's called eugenics. Sometimes called gene therapy, or teratogenic modification. The entire plastic surgery industry is based on keying into the dissatisfactions people feel about themselves, not to mention their self-esteem issues.
This is what leads directly to anorexia in girls—AND in boys, where it's a problem with wrestlers—and other borderline personality problems such as cutting.
None of my friends are "normal," thank all the hundred little gods of diversity and normal variation.
The socio-cultural myths of what is "normative" have done more harm than good to almost everyone I know well. Let's talk about "normal" and sex, too, shall we?
(Sorry. This pushed my rant button.) :)
Rant away to your heart's content, bud. What I liked about that title was how much it suggested about all of the details you have added, and how the title alone will make me go find the book and flip through it. That's not easily done with a mere book title and subtitle. A lot of thought obviously went into crafting it. Which of course is the whole point of our recurring exercise.
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