Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning a car," says Kim, the Seattle architect. "People say, 'Hey, you're wearing a nice jacket--can't you afford a car?'" Now car-sharing firms are out to prove that their communal approach offers its own attractions: freedom--and even convenience. As a Zipcar...
...populations in Western societies. Unfortunately, the general population remains all but oblivious to those men who suffer from disorders more readily linked with Mary-Kate than Bob Saget. A greater awareness of disordered eating and body image disturbances in the male population is therefore in order if the misconceptions, stigma and under-diagnosis bulging at this health concern’s sides are to be slimmed...
...This insight should further be accompanied with sensitivity to the pressures faced by men: Impressionable thirteen-year-old girls are not the only victims of airbrushed models glossing over the cover of Vanity Fair. Indeed, until these pathologies are consistently perceived as the unisex issues that they are, the stigma, severity and failure to diagnose will increase in tandem with the biceps of a budding bodybuilder who silently bears the weight of an untold disorder...
...There’s definitely some small stigma attached to the science fiction association [at Harvard] and we want to dispel that, but at the same time we’re unwilling to change anything that we do just for the sake of dispelling that,” she said...
...approach to issues such as rising Western secularism and Islamic fundamentalism. During the recent U.S. controversy about giving Communion to pro-choice candidates, Ratzinger authored a careful letter to American bishops reasserting the Vatican's antiabortion stance without dragging the Holy See into election-year theatrics. "There was a stigma," said the Vatican official of Ratzinger. "He rises above that...