Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to see the wives in this age group go to the spas while the husbands played golf," Berg says. Now the men, driven to stay fit and attractive and to reward themselves for years of hard work, are enjoying everything from manicures to mud baths. "The stigma is gone," says Kirwan Rockefeller, a social and behavioral scientist and co-creator of the certificate program in spa and hospitality management at the University of California at Irvine. "[The TV show] Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has done a lot toward reassuring men that...
...ensure that DATA was divorced from the stigma of vanity, Bono refused to bankroll it. After coaxing $1 million grants out of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros and software businessman Ed Scott, DATA got real office space and hired lobbyists--Tom Sheridan, a Democrat who had been a star of the domestic AIDS lobby, and Scott Hatch, a former Tom DeLay aide who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee. DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World...
...Gunther and other neighbors say they were not aware of Alpizar's mental disorder, which does not surprise some mental-health experts. About 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a condition in which a person's mood can swing from depression to euphoria. But "there is still a stigma about saying 'I have a mental illness,'" says William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., who has consulted for the Secret Service...
...course, they too have to deal with those dreaded two words: gay cowboy. Lee professes that his greatest issue with the phrase is that such a seemingly absurd combination might bear the “connotation of being a comedy.” For Gyllenhaal, the stigma of that label scared him away from the script when it was initially shown to him at the age of 16. “When I first heard about it, I heard about it as a gay cowboy movie. I wanted to have nothing to do with it,” he says...
...cultural groups, is a way to promote “community life at Harvard.” Haddock added that BMF “really brings students together” and said that self-segregation was a non-issue for him. Gadgil spoke of her own experience with the stigma of perceived self-segregation within the South Asian Association. She added that the UC should fund events which bring people from various backgrounds together. Candidates Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 elicited laughter from the crowd after riddling their two-minute opening...