[Re: Katha Pollitt’s The Mind-Body Problem]
My own involutional sentiments are evolving in a rather different direction (perhaps only because I am still blessed with undeserved good health): It’s not all about my body and its ‘druthers (whether indulged or denied) but about the needs of the countless bodies of others with more pressing things to agonize about than mascara or whether to come home at 4am. — And, come right down to it, it’s about their minds rather than my body…