Word: stigmas
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...that particular flag; while the Dixiecrat faction cites it as a symbol of what they refer to as the Confederacy's rich cultural history, their opponents decry the flag as a constant, taunting reminder of the bad old days of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation. In the end, the stigma of national disgust and the prospect of continued anti-flag marches on the Capitol proved too much for all but the staunchest Confederate boosters...
...years Congress funded various SETI efforts--until the political stigma of paying for the quest for "little green men," as cynics like to call them, scuttled federal funding in 1993. Nonetheless, NASA continues the search for unearthly life, even if it's only for little green bugs, under the more politically palatable label of astrobiology. Right now, NASA is eyeing the dusty surface of Mars (where water once flowed) and the likely ocean under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa as sites for primitive life-forms. One recent false alarm: the much trumpeted Martian meteorite found in Antarctica apparently...
...Currier House resident Sunana Sohi '00 says that despite the area's merits, she doesn't expect the stigma to go away--it's a first-year ritual...
Other genres--mystery, thriller, horror, sci-fi--attract no cultural stigma, but those categories also appeal heavily to male readers. Romances do not, and therein, some of the genre's champions argue, lies the problem. "I cannot help but suspect," writes romance author Penelope Williamson, "that romance is so often ridiculed and denigrated because it is a literature written almost exclusively by women for women...
...despite the stigma attached to the quad as a whole--the area that includes Cabot, Pforzheimer and Currier House--the grass may actually be greener up Garden Street...