Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS carries a stigma, so people would not go for testing if it's confidential," says Joshua D. Bloodworth '97, who organized the conference on AIDS among young blacks and Latinos being held today at Sever Hall and the Science Center...
...place has changed a lot. It had a bad stigma, but we're working toward changing that. It's a gradual process," he said, nothing that "we've been doing a great job for a year...
Imaginary friends are very different from the mental illness schizophrenia. As a mentally ill person I have had to deal with stigma, ignorance and blatant prejudice ever since my diagnosis three years ago. As a mentally ill undergrad at Harvard, I constantly deal with these issues as well and often feel marginalized because there is no peer group on campus, like there are for gender issues or rape or race, to which I can turn for support and understanding...
...what exactly are they saying? Are they ready to adopt the thunderous moralizing of Bennett? Paint good and bad in bold relief? Is Etzioni prepared to stigmatize divorce? He says yes, but when you press him to define stigma, its meaning grows elusive. Is he saying you should give the cold shoulder to a neighbor who has left his or her family for a new and improved spouse? Should you not invite such people to parties? Well, he's not sure he'd go that far until we've exhausted other avenues. (Let's give those supervows a few more...
...rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly low, Victorian stigma was still half-alive...