As anyone who has read my work must realise, I have very strong views on life being fair. It really matters to me that everyone has the same opportunities and chances in life, that no one be pushed down or denied on the grounds of their birth and social standing like my Disposables are, or discriminated against for the way they look or chose to live, like Dullard. I think that everyone deserves a fair shot at living or getting themselves the life they want, regardless of who they are. But the world itself doesnāt help there. Because, she says as she dusts off her old cultural studies brain cells from her long ago Geography degree, the culture in which one grows up materially affects what every person within it considers ānormalā. Viewpoints on what is acceptable and what isnāt, on what society should be and, more importantly, everyoneās place in it are ingrained into its inhabitants from a very young age without most people even realising. And so it can be that persons in one cul...