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I think she has a point, to a degree.
Think of a game called Skinny Princess, where you get her to eat and then force her to vomit; or Black Princess, where you get the princess to do outrageously "Black" things; or Dyke Princess, where you get her to do outrageously "gay" things; or Handicapped Princess, where you get her to do outrageously "handicapped" things; or . . . .
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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