However, we caution against unintentionally glamourizing the extremely high risk of confronting an armed assailant head-on, particularly when it involves youth.
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The model, 32, fought back after critics — including U.K. tabloid columnist Piers Morgan — accused her of glamourizing obesity with her Cosmopolitan U.K. cover.
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"There was never any danger of us glamourizing it or making it sexy or offending people because when you've been there yourself, you know how to do it," O'Connor tells me.
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However, the programme led to criticism from some viewers, who accused Rose of "glamourizing" her profession. It also led to accusations on social media against Rose's partner, a builder and author of erotic literature, that he was profiting from her earnings. Rose and her partner both refuted these allegations. In 2015 Rose performed in a run of The Sex Workers' Opera at London's Pleasance Theatre.
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Yang, together with a group of Christians, voluntary organisations and professions, met to discuss a strategy and plan of action for Christians to tackle what they termed as a "volatile situation." In September 2003, Rev. Yang issued a statement to Time magazine whereby he accused the American publication of glamourizing an illegal and condemned lifestyle in an article which reviewed the gay scene in Singapore. He added that the people of Singapore have spoken up against the subject.
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When the first version of the film leaked, it caused a major controversy for its portrayal of Captain Nascimento's unpunished police brutality in slums (favelas); some saw it as glamourizing police violence. After its exhibition in Berlin Film Festival, critic Jay Weissberg, in a Variety article, called the movie "a one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs".Weissberg, Jay. "The Elite Squad Review", Variety, February 11, 2008.
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Spencer Kornhaben said that the graphic tones of the video took away the song's "ambiguity and subtext", and criticized it for glamourizing trauma and "amplifying it", without "pushing the conversation anywhere new". He concluded: "people unsympathetic to Madonna's cause are not likely to be moved; people sympathetic to her cause are left feeling drained". Gay Times Daniel Megarry called it the singer's "most shocking [video] yet". Billboards Sal Cinquemani listed "God Control" as one of Madonna's nine most controversial videos.
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The analysis of this criterion should not only consider pornographic products, but also the producers of videos depicting violence and likewise computer games glamourizing violence." In a statement on the role of the media, the EKD's 1997 synod stated, "According to the churches, public broadcasting plays a vital role in guaranteeing the freedom of opinion and access to a variety of information in Germany. Maintaining and strengthening this system, which is "almost unique" in the world, is "imperative", said Bishop Engelhardt... In view of its greater freedom in producing programmes, it has "a special obligation to practise voluntary control". Now that "violations of taboos and norms" are constantly increasing, public control and self-regulation of the media must be increased.
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Karen seems to be the only one who takes journalistic integrity seriously, while the others try to find ways to boost ratings by glamourizing news stories with sensationalism. Karen is apt to point out the ignorant prejudices of most of the staff, as they, in turn, tease her for not being able to find a date. Findlay suspects her of being a lesbian after she is featured in a feminist magazine as one of ten women in the news who make a difference. He "connects the dots" of her different personality traits to arrive at this conclusion, including observations of her not being able to sustain a male-female relationship, the fact that she knows the editor of a women's magazine, and that she is aggressive, argumentative, sure of herself and moralistic.
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