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September 12, 2005
Another Person's Challenge
As I walked back to the medical library from the A&M Press I saw a heavyset woman sitting in the driver's seat of a minivan plucking her chin hairs. She saw me and immediately hid the tweezers and mirror and looked away. I looked away and kept walking. One wonders if the social burden of hurisis contributed to her weight gain.
Edit: The point is it's sad that we've created a society that makes a woman ashamed of hereditary variation and teaches her to treat her shame with food.
Posted by Niels Olson at September 12, 2005 6:30 PM
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