““It’s pretty much impossible to expect impressionable teenagers to react positively to difference when mainstream values obsessively promote a religious adherence to prejudicial norms. How can we expect our youth to embrace diversity when the world around them is so archly, so aggressively, against it? Kids are hardly likely to accept a wobbly classmate when any deviation from the ubiquitous, tall, skinny, unshaky and Photoshopped ideal is derided as a failure of mammoth proportions.””
