Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-known example is Anderson's disgust for homosexuality, which he has called "deviant behavior" in several letters to The Crimson...
...Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth," she wrote of earlier theorists in the introduction to her 1982 book." "In the life cycle, the woman has been the deviant...
...Asian Americans, 29 culturally distinct groups that are sometimes classified by California demographers as white, is being used by the media and some members of the policy elite to embarrass African Americans. Some Asian Americans have documented the existence of an Asian-American "underclass" (people engaged in socially deviant behavior or living below the poverty line, or both). But such findings have not dented the widespread impression that these groups are "model" minorities. Blacks are seen as less hardworking and less deserving than members of model minorities -- although 90% of them hold jobs and their West African ancestors were members...
Taken aback by my deviant stances concerning these issuse which they believed were manifestly inarguable, my Muslim brothers declared that my arguments were invalid, and that my objective in this discussion was to censor the "truth," to revile Islam by dictating what is acceptable--a sin comparable to those of the sheikhs they despise. Then, in front of three fellow Muslims, I was declared a "munafiq," a hypocrite in the faith, perhaps the most vicious insult to a Muslim...
...Founding Fathers' favorite hairstyle had reappeared on the mainstream American fashion scene as a European import that went companionably with well-heeled 1980s glamour. Shampooed and conditioned, it no longer had the scruffiness of the hippie look, and instead was associated with Old World hipness. "It's safely deviant," explains Michael O'Loughlin, 31, an editor of the San Francisco Examiner, who recently cut off his 6-in. ponytail and got a longish crewcut...