Word: esteeming
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...cover), it seems to me to be reclaiming girlhood as a time of empowerment, before the heterosex drive kicks in and spoils everything. (If I'm right, it's a strategy psychologists have validated: Carol Gilligan and others have shown that girls in America have much more self-esteem before puberty than after...
Teachers in districts where the religious right has gained a strong voice complain that politicking and endless debates over curriculum impede their work. In Xenia, Ohio, two religious conservatives on the five-member school board tie up meetings with arguments against self-esteem programs (Weakens respect for parents!) and sex education (Undermines abstinence!). "The time spent on this is taking away from academics," says board president Wanda Kress. "Teachers are constantly afraid they'll do something offensive...
...effects in women were isolated to obesity alone, not low self-esteem, aptitude test scores or socio- economic background...
...dishonesty? Historian and former Harvard professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. observed a few years ago that the drive behind multiculturalism is therapeutic. So is the motivation behind the idea of diversity. Multiculturalism, wrote Schlesinger, tries to bolster low self-esteem by letting people hear "nice things about one's own ethnic past...
...Maya also had a highly developed -- and to modern eyes, highly bizarre -- aesthetic sense. "Slightly crossed eyes were held in great esteem," writes Yale anthropologist Michael Coe in his book The Maya. "Parents attempted to induce the condition by hanging small beads over the noses of their children." The Maya also seemed to go in for shaping their children's skulls: they liked to flatten them (although this may have simply been the inadvertent result of strapping babies to cradle boards) or squeeze them into a cone. Some Mayanists speculate that the conehead effect was the result of trying...