Word: taboo
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Despite boasting perennial nobel candidate and literary giant Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's best-known cultural stars tend to spring from the small screen. So when a 27-year-old with a keen eye and quick wit penned a devastating examination of some of the country's most taboo subjects, it wasn't just the critics who were amazed. The only thing rarer than a female author in Indonesia is a best-selling one, a distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been...
...exact opposite? At one point I had to ask: were we being racist? At the end of the weekend I have to admit that I still don’t know. As with all issues concerning race or religion, the line that divides the acceptably humorous from the inappropriately taboo becomes fuzzier as you try to look at it more closely. The fact that we were worried about our safety tells us what we were doing was offensive to some degree, but I can’t put my finger on anything fundamentally wrong with getting a laugh...
...presumptuous to assume I check my profile daily (which I do) and ruder still to think I’m going to respond to such an elementary avenue of expression (which I will). Clearly there’s a social facet of facebook.com that’s still taboo, an underlying tackiness that should discourage use of this site for a serious flirtation. But casual contacts are acceptable, and confirming friendship is a must. Unless, of course, it’s a random college student from the University of Missouri looking for “whatever he can get?...
...ability to arm students with the information they need to guard against STDs, it can help students guard against unwanted pregnancy, and it is capable of enabling students to make better decisions when it comes to sex and relationships in general. But if a frank discussion of sex is taboo in schools, and instead sex education focuses only on abstinence, teens will instead rely on the dangerous misinformation and half-truths passed along by friends and pop culture...
...time for America to face the facts: teenagers are having sex. Until schools and other organizations in positions of power acknowledge that sex is a part of life, it will continue to remain taboo, people will continue to be uninformed, and STDs and unintended pregnancies will continue to be problems plaguing America. People who can educate youth should (parents included), because otherwise it will continue to be the case that teenagers learn everything they know about sex through the grapevine. And in this case, that is not the best thing...