by Trish Randall, American Thinker:

In a recent essay, I explored longstanding dissatisfaction about a bodily fact.  I’m happy being a woman, so I focused on a bodily fact that I’ve never been happy about.  My “persistent, insistent, consistent” desire for a rock-star voice was my best window into the disappointment over an aspect of one’s body that has life-changing implications.

My description of unrequited desire for a powerfully pleasing voice was met with some sympathetic attention, which I found quite sweet.

Mine is one of many potential unhappy bodily realities, including height, build, hair (color, frizz, thickness, absence), eyesight (nearsighted, farsighted, colorblind), weakness, etc.  Seeing a healthy, functional limb as intrusive and alien causes unhappiness compounded by rational reasons that this doesn’t evoke sympathy.