Word: esteeming
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Improved self-esteem was probably not why belly dancing evolved thousands of years ago. Though its origins remain murky, it was probably first performed in the Middle East, then spread through that region and North Africa. The term belly dancing is a misnomer adopted in the West in the 19th century: in ancient Middle Eastern societies, women would have been forbidden to show their midriffs. Most modern practitioners contend that belly dancing was designed not for sexual enticement but as a fertility ritual or for birthing ceremonies for and among women. There has also been speculation that the rotating pelvic...
...cameramen, dancers and friends, is in a cavernous Hong Kong studio shooting her second music video of the day. The session soured three hours earlier when her manager introduced her to a local journalist by calling her "fat. I keep telling her to lose weight." Now, with her self-esteem riding lower than her leather pants, everything Chen has been dreading for the past five days is coming true. She cannot remember all the moves to the dance that accompanies her fast R. and B. track Future Tense. While the chorus "I wanna be new/ I wanna...
...Andrea Britell compliments my hair. “You look so great with it short. Your mother must love it! You look so handsome,” she says. Self-esteem skyrockets...
...their children are not as healthy and happy as other families. Studies conducted over the past two decades have compared gay families to heterosexual ones, comparing the quality of parent/child relationships as well as the children’s psychological well-being, relationships with their peers and self-esteem. Not a single reputable study has found that lesbian or gay parents are bad parents or that their sexual orientation harms the children they raise...
Glover, who is professor of ethics and director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College, London, suggested that low esteem can foment violent impulses both among groups that are oppressed and groups that act as oppressors...