Word: stigmas
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...thing, especially that generation. My dad would come home from work and they'd have their cocktail hour. My father had two brothers who committed suicide. [There's] a lot of alcoholism on both my mother's side and my father's side, so there is certainly a huge stigma with that. And also people who were depressed or not able to function would [be] sent away. I just remember my mother at times, we'd be so frustrated because we wouldn't understand why she was acting the way she was. Now as a parent...
...scored low on measures of traditional masculinity professed higher degrees of happiness in their roles--as well as in their marriages, with their children and with their health. But even they worried about how the rest of the world viewed their choice--with some reason. "There's definitely a stigma out there," says Rochlen. "The dads tell stories about mothers on the playground looking at them like they're child molesters or losers...
...place, at once prurient and puritanical. It's afraid of films that show strong, subtle passions between men and women. If Lust, Caution becomes a hit--a long shot, given its 2 1/2 hr. running time and lack of marquee names--it would be bucking both the NC-17 stigma and the current aversion to serious, old-fashioned screen romance...
...posters acknowledge this, ironically beginning with some variant of “I can’t believe I’m posting on here.” For beyond any stigma on the activity a poster is seeking to engage in, there is a stigma surrounding Craigslist. The only people there, common wisdom insists, are weirdoes, losers, those whose life plans have not panned out. Otherwise they would be out there in the “scene” that dozens of them claim to be tired of, meeting people on their own and charming them with their...
...disgraced the Bhutto name," says Mumtaz Bhutto, the clan patriarch and her father's uncle. "She had to run away to escape her sins. The country has gone through hell for 10 years, and where was she? The only way she could come back was by a deal. The stigma will stay forever." Still, like many in Sindh, he plans to vote for her party because it represents the region in a national political scene dominated by Punjabi interests...