Word: stigmas
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Chapter 11 has lost its stigma, but is it being misused...
...testimony to the continued stigma of rape, only 16% of the assaults are reported. Half the victims surveyed said they would be "much more likely" to go to the police if assured their name would not be used. As a result, the survey's authors recommended that more states adopt laws to keep the names of rape victims confidential...
...task force's] plan, as it stands, would greatly increase the reticence of some students to go through the [disciplinary] process, and would severely abate the students' right to an approachable Ad Board," Heinicke said. "The stigma associated with rape can ruin the social and academic reputation of the person involved...
...making examples out of people like Johnson and Ashe is supposed to reduce the stigma of AIDS, it seems to be a misguided plan. It only serves to reinforce the distinction between the anonymous gays, Haitians and needle-users who get AIDS because their lifestyles are "different from ours," and the well-publicized individuals who were innocent victims such as we might...
...MIGHT GO so far as to wonder whether making public someone's identity as an AIDS patient (whether he is gay or straight) does not in fact increase the stigma of the disease. From then on he is identified with the illness, as a cancer or heart attack sufferer, for example...