Wellness-adjacent politics of ‘perfect’ bodies and children carries an implicit attack on those excluded.

Evidence

As the strong men and well women have grown ever more entangled, and ever more ambitious in their goals, I have felt a mounting foreboding about what their cookie-cutter version of perfection will mean to the countless people who fall outside their embrace. I have also felt a more personal sense of menace. Because in this obsession with pure children and perfected bodies, I hear an unmistakable, if implicit, attack on my own child. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 632

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘my own child’ line ties to the doubling/self-insertion thesis — Klein reads the Mirror World’s bodily obsessions as personally aimed at her family, part of the personal-political circuitry of the book.