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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Eugenics Contest

10,000 women measure themselves for a contest to find the most Norma lady in all of Cleveland. They didn't find anybody who was normal who was the right measurement that's also surprising to me but they found this one woman by accident. The story I always feel like is such a it's a story about eugenics about how embedded the eugenics idea is in even things is kind of you know mundane is and also kind of horrifying as women sizing.

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