'Observer' Lessons in Home Eugenics Grow Ever Less-Shocking
• "Brave New Boutique: Baby Sex Selection Sold On East Side," July 24, 2006: "Given the aggressive fertility of New York's breeding set, it was only a matter of time before the joys of elective sex-selection took root in the Land of Milk and Bugaboos, the epicenter of the Gen-X/Y baby boomlet, New York City."
• "Genetic Engineering for the Preteen Set," March 30, 2010: "Atlas, a Boulder, Colo., company that previously specialized in growth supplements, last year introduced a take-at-home test that detects the presence of a variant of the ACTN3 gene that blocks the expression of the alpha-actinin-e protein. This protein, expressed in both copies of the gene, one from each parent, is associated with fast-twitch muscle movements and is present in a high percentage of elite athletes…. What Atlas seems to be offering, in other words, is the possibility that you can ascertain the likelihood that the junior-with-the-good-jump-shot is 9 years old going on Lebron."
Damn breeders.
The Awl, I want you to promise not to use your Photoshop powers for evil anymore. Look at that thing. Listen closely. Can you hear it? "Kill meeeeee," it implores you. "Pleeeeease."
Heartily dissent. They are like chilled cucumber slices to my eyes.
Speaking of aggressive fertility, the "Fill Me UP!" scene from Election is nowhere to be found on Youtube.
And THIS is why nobody likes Ayn Rand!
More genetic analysis for pre-teens! those kids need more reasons to worry about their bodies
I don't know, if I learned at 12 that I was never growing out of an A cup, it would have saved me the collective hours I wasted praying to God. I think it could be constructive.