THE PATHOLOGIZATION of Normal. “If the system isn’t working, that means there is something wrong with the person or other people are not allowing the system to work. A young boy finds it difficult to placidly sit in class for hours on end? There’s not a problem with the system, there’s a problem with him. A black man doesn’t have the intellectual aptitude to grasp the abstract concepts necessary to score highly in a math class? That’s not a problem with the system, it’s a problem with racist whites. A man doesn’t prefer to express his emotions in the way particular to women? He’s not emotionally different, he’s emotionally illiterate. The system is defined to work because whoever doesn’t fit into the system is defined as defective.”