LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
store said, “If you’re black and
come in with an entourage, you
won’t be followed because they’ll
be like ‘Oh, that’s somebody famous.’ But if you come in by yourself or with one other person, then
you’re going to be followed.”
And as security expert J.R.
Roberts told Kim and Julee, this
type of profiling is not only racist, it’s also inefficient, since actual shoplifters can slip under the
radar when stores focus on skin
color rather than behavior.
Elsewhere in the issue, Catherine Pearson sheds light on a rarely discussed issue among women:
secondary infertility. According to
estimates by the National Center
for Health Statistics, more than
3 million women in America who
have one child have trouble getting pregnant a second time.
With no clear explanation for
the problem, many women are
left feeling stuck. “They are not
‘infertile’ in the way that people
struggling to have a first baby are,
and yet there is some thing — often unknown — preventing them
from becoming parents again,”
Catherine writes.
Catherine also looks at an
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emotional side effect of parents
struggling with secondary infertility: feelings of guilt for wanting
a second child when they already
have one. Therapists who treat
It’s elitism — racial
profiling is just one
expression of that elitism.”
patients dealing with secondary
infertility say outsiders can see it
as a “selfish obsession.”
Finally, as part of our continuing focus on The Third Metric, we
enumerate the surprising ways
your smartphone may
be harming your health.
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