Word: taboos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Taboo subjects besides Lewinsky: anything that comes under the old culture-wars rubric. Sexual harassment? Leave it alone. Gays in the military? Don't. Gay marriage? Ditto. Lesbian couples adopting children? Smile with an enigmatic calm and say, "Mmmmmmmmmmm...
Shana says she is glad "sex isn't so taboo now, I mean with all the teenage pregnancies." But she also says that "it's creepy and kind of scary that it seems to be happening so early, and all this talk about it." She adds, "Girls are jumping too quickly. They figure if they can fall in love in a month, then they can have sex in a month too." When she tried discouraging a classmate from having sex for the first time, the friend turned to her and said, "My God, Shana. It's just...
...person. especially a young person is dressed in business casual, 10 years ago that would have been corporate taboo," he says. "That certainly is not the case now. however, if the person came in here sagging, and they're a 32-inch waist and they're wearing 42-inch pants...if you have body piercing, you need to take those things out. You need to somewhat adhere to business paradigm...
...could I? I wrote against sacred cows, such as the cult of diversity, affirmative action, conspicuous compassion and radical participatory democracy. I wrote in favor of taboo notions, such as a Promise Keepers, student apathy, honor and (most unforgivably) conservativism. Moreover, I wrote these things in the flagship publication of what not too long ago was known commonly as "Kremlin on the Charles." No, I could not have sought or expected popularity and its absence concerns...
...really. I think that as cheesy at it is, everyone's like, "Oh, its kind of in to be gay," which is kind of ridiculous. The one thing is, I don't think that it's as taboo as it was 20 years...