Word: tabooed
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...trouble drawing audiences to their smaller, and less convenient, dining halls. The location can make or break the night; of the River Houses, Dunster and Mather have had the most trouble getting people because of their sentinel positions at the campus edge. Showing movies at the Quad has become taboo. Brown summed up the problem there quickly: "People at the River stay at the River on weekends, and people at the Quad go out to the River on weekends...
...sexual taboo and superstition as a political weapon is still present in America. As a basic question concerning the personal freedom of individual citizens, consensual sexuality and identity must first of all be defined as a civil liberties issue. This has been recognized by a number of groups who actively support the movement for freedom of sexual and affectional preference. Supporting groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, the American Friends Service Committee and many churches. The ACLU has published a handbook outlining the rights of Gay people against archaic oppressive laws still existing...
There was, however, an unfortunate tendency for some psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts especially, to inherit the priestly function of taboo enforcement. Menninger, for example, described homosexuality as "high in the kingdom of evil" and stated that he could not bring himself to "condone it." If, as the good doctor supposed, homosexuality is an illness, how does one "condone" or condemn...
...outcomes of stereotyped mass diagnosis of a vast array of humans are far from humorous. The development of some therapeutic systems as agencies of sexual and social conformity has been related by C.A. Tripp in his book The Homosexual Matrix and others as essentially an expression of Judeo-Christian taboo. The an expression of Judeo-Christian taboo. The ancient term "faggot" (a bundle of sticks, kindling or firewood) was historically associated with homosexuals being burned at the stake, along with such other dangerous social deviants as witches, heretics and Jews...
Well, it seems that Hynes values his head enough to wear a helmet while he plays, and in case you haven't noticed, that is virtually taboo in pro hockey. This masochistic spirit has spread to the point where Teddy Green has permanently doffed his padded chapeau and exposed his plated head to the sticks and fingernails of his WHA counterparts...