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An honest, funny, neurotic, and totally gross love child of Mindy Kaling and Mary Roach.
Mara Altmans volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldnt have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe revolting? Isnt it all just cleavage? These questions and others like them have led to the comforting and sometimes smelly revelations that constitute Gross Anatomy, an essay collection about what its like to operate the bags of meat we call our bodies.
Divided into two sections, The Top Half and The Bottom Half, with cartoons scattered throughout, Altmans book takes the reader on a wild and relatable journey from head to toeas she attempts to strike up a peace accord with our grody bits.
With a combination of personal anecdotes and fascinating research, Gross Anatomy holds up a magnifying...

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Names: Altman, Mara, author.

Title: Gross anatomy : dispatches from the front (and back) / Mara Altman.

Description: New York : G. P. Putnams Sons, 2018

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048863| ISBN 9780399574832 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399574856 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: WomenHealth and hygieneHumor. | Human bodyHumorMiscellanea.

Classification: LCC RA564.85 .A485 2018 | DDC 612dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048863

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Prologue To become a master at any one thing i - photo 10
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To become a master at any one thing, it is said that one must practice it for 10,000 hours. I have been living in my body for 306,600 hours, yet I still feel like a novice at operating this bag of meat. As soon as I feel like Ive got everything figured out, something changesboobs spring out of my chest, I sprout a mustache, floaters homestead in my eyeballsand Im left shocked, bewildered, and yet ultimately quite curious. I cannot tell you the number of times Ive wondered, especially after a spicy meal, why evolution wasnt smart enough to build us with buttholes made out of something more durable. Lead piping, perhaps?

Id like to say that I spend my time trying to cure cancer, eradicate hunger, and put an end to global warming, but my brain is naturally inclined toward questions about the human female body. I spend most days wondering about the potential aerodynamic advantages of camel toes and why, when we are built to sweat, I often find myself hiding in a public restroom, drying off my pit stains to pretend that I dont have glands. Why does my dog, every time I squat down, make a beeline for my crotch? The only other thing shes drawn to with such consistency is the garbage can.

I want to be one of those people who, in the morning, sip an espresso while filling in the New York Times crossword puzzlewhat a respectable hobby!but instead Im busy wondering why, as I hump, I never sound nearly as cool and moany as the porn star Sasha Grey in the film Asstravaganza 3. Is there a meet-up group for sex mutes?

Lets, for a moment, suspend the idea of self-accountability and attempt to blame these bodily fixations on my parents. They grew up during the 1960s and were the kind of hippies who were so hippie that they refused to be called hippie. Hippies were so conformist, my mom has always told me.

My parents first met in high school and then dropped out of UC Berkeley together. They began growing plantsmostly cacti and succulentsin their backyard and then, to make a living, sold them to local grocery stores and via mail-order catalogues.

My mom never wore any image-altering materialsno makeup, deodorant, perfume, push-up bras, or high heels. She has refused antiaging creams and would never dream of fillers. (When she read this, she said, What are fillers? Sheesh!) She didnt even shave her legs or armpits, and still doesnt to this day. I thought all that was normal female behavior until late elementary school, when I noticed that other moms didnt have a great black muff under their arms when they waved their children in from the playground. I imagined that astronauts could spot my mom from space. Houston, we have a problemthere appear to be two errant black holes near San Diegos suburbs.

While I felt proud of her uniqueness, I also felt terrified of being ridiculed because of it. I explained to her that it was perfectly possible to wave at me less zealously while gluing her elbow to her side.

So for a long time, I didnt know a lot of woman things. In my twenties, I thought that women tipped the wax lady to keep her quiet.

My father, meanwhile, turned his nose up at anything he deemed unnatural. He hated perfume and artificial scents of any kind. When I tried a spritz of my friends bottle of White Musk from the Body Shop, he screwed up his face and rolled the car windows down. When he caught me wearing lipstick, he looked at me like Id just murdered a giant cuddly panda bear to use its innards as war paint.

Growing up, I had a different concept of femininity. I came to think that artificially enhancing my appearance in any way showed a lack of self-acceptance, that it meant I wasnt strong enough to be who I really was. All the girls out there who were wearing makeup, dyeing their hair, and covering their stink were frauds. I, who stepped forth into the world doused in her artisanal BO, was real. Of course, keeping it real doesnt mean that I didnt often feel uncomfortable. I found myself in a constant battle between self-righteousness and shame. Eventually I learned that ones identity can be complemented, not always concealed, by how one chooses to express oneself superficially.

Ultimately, I matured in an environment that made me hyperaware of our social norms because I was constantly conscious of how I was never managing to meet them. Though I now partake in many of the beauty practices that I grew up shunning, maybe its because of my upbringing that I always catch myself asking, But why?

Then again, Im not sure I can blame my parents for everything. Their aversion to razors probably doesnt account for why I spent the last couple of days mining modern literature for hemorrhoid references or spent an hour unwinding after a rough week by watching Dr. Pimple Poppers blackhead-extraction videos on YouTube.

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