On Bodily Non-Problems with a Name

We are creating concepts for entirely benign, painless, harmless bodily variations—and with them, a lucrative market. This “hermeneutical baggage,” as we might call it, serves nobody. Save capitalism.

I look in the mirror: rib flare, I think to myself, for the first time ever. This because of a social media post I saw a few days ago, of a small white woman smiling in a tight white tee shirt. A very slight bulge under each of her breasts had been assiduously circled in red. “Does anyone else have this problem?” Was the gist of her question to the grou…