Word: stigmas
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...creation of the fund will remove the stigma that the council cannot afford major projects," Aronberg said...
NAPPING IS a definite art. It takes a lot of effort to get to a point where you can push aside the concerns of a hectic life at any time and dive between your sheets. Napping only has a stigma because our parents forced us to nap when we were little and we resented it. Staying awake all day was what we thought separated adults from children. We were wrong...
...pious hypocrisy. However much Third World governments may decry the surge in Western adoptions, millions of children around the world are abandoned and homeless -- about 7 million in Brazil alone. Only a tiny percentage of these children find homes locally, and in some cases they are doomed to eternal stigma. In Korea, for example, a Confucian value system places such a premium on male gender and blood ties that the adoption of a baby girl, or an unrelated male, is virtually unthinkable...
Gordon said it is difficult for women to free themselves of the stigma associated with the language of hegemony...
...think it's very courageous for a survivor to let her name and face be attached to this crime, and doing so makes it easier for other survivors. But it's still too difficult for a lot of survivors, still too much of a stigma attached, especially in acquaintance rapes, where they are so often blamed unfairly for participating in what happened...