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Stigmatizing and suppressing your emotions won't make them go away.
Equating psychiatric disabilities with gun violence is unjust and stigmatizing.
Because stigmatizing partisan hypocrisy doesn't rid the country of it.
It is also more stigmatizing and causes more lost work.
Stigmatizing images also invite native consequences for communities of color.
Critics of the law said it is stigmatizing, insulting and unconstitutional.
But stigmatizing images also invite serious consequences for communities of color.
Most important, we're de-stigmatizing what it means to be bullied.
They foretell behaviors and conditions that could be stigmatizing or harmful.
" He added that stigmatizing and punishing the homeless was "totally counterproductive.
And I love the idea of de-stigmatizing the feeling of loneliness.
What if my conclusions are deemed stigmatizing on the basis of gender?
WASHINGTON — President Trump has often seen the political benefits of stigmatizing Muslims.
These comments are stigmatizing fat bodies in effect, if not in intent.
But look at how we're stigmatizing people in this country: Muslims, Jews.
In 2010, French argued that stigmatizing homosexuality served to create a healthy society.
In these unsupportive, stigmatizing, and hostile environments, trans students are in serious danger.
But the statement warned about the effects of stigmatizing people with mental illness.
How do we put an end to that without being patronizing or stigmatizing?
They've converted anti-immigrant rhetoric into policy, stigmatizing immigrants on a vast scale.
People they know and love have had abortions and they're stigmatizing them too.'
"It is entirely stigmatizing," said ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio of the separate accommodations.
For some, facial feminization is seen as bolstering restrictive stereotypes while stigmatizing gender nonconformity.
Your concerns about stigmatizing the man's children are thoughtful and, I suspect, well founded.
The President has defended his use of the term, denying it's racist or stigmatizing.
It's about de-stigmatizing the opioid user and seeing them as a human being.
To go one step further by shaming and stigmatizing a possible solution is unconscionable.
Just this week, Obama warned that stigmatizing "good, patriotic Muslims" feeds the narrative of terrorists.
"They need to stop the physical and emotional violence, and stigmatizing the addicts," he says.
Some human rights advocates have pilloried the law for stigmatizing Muslims who wear head scarves.
But it was for me a powerful reminder of the insidious nature of stigmatizing language.
Instead of stigmatizing addition, treating it as illness means finding ways to offer preventative care.
Yet in recent years, conservatives have begun associating the stigmatizing term "welfare" with more policies.
Discrimination against groups stereotyped in this way is typically expressed through disregard, stigmatizing and ostracizing.
You said you've had performers and fans express concern over the use of stigmatizing terminology.
"They have the same thoughts— but not maybe the same stigmatizing nicknames," he told me.
It is a reminder that politics is a human responsibility, without stigmatizing industrial and technological development.
Although the students agreed with fewer myths and stereotypes, some of them still held stigmatizing views.
And shaming and stigmatizing people who are still alive and struggling with drug addiction is counterproductive.
I'm a firm believer in not stigmatizing sex and following your heart, and your… you know.
They disapprove of stigmatizing any patient, and the best preventive is to not hunt one down.
There's no need to register someone, if you are doing that you are stigmatizing that person.
They're factually wrong and stigmatizing to millions of completely nonviolent Americans living with severe mental illness.
Yet focusing on exaggerated threats to freedom and stigmatizing the communist enemy undermined their progressive goals.
Ralph Nader and Gary Johnson voters would avoid unfair stigmatizing — and perhaps a candidate like Gov.
Stigmatizing and preventing such an arms race should be a high priority for national and global security.
As a Virgo, I've also been prey to some of this stigmatizing after I've revealed my sign.
Many argued for the simple clarity of addiction, but others thought that the term was too stigmatizing.
Overall, they didn't tend to show how expensive, stigmatizing, and legally difficult getting an abortion often is.
Political actors suggesting an opponent has psychological problems risks stigmatizing people with actual mental illnesses, they say.
"The closer we get to de-stigmatizing cannabis, the better it is for all," Ms. Capobianco said.
White parents can and should become comfortable discussing skin color and other physical differences without stigmatizing them.
In its official guidance, the Agriculture Department discourages the use of alternate meals and other stigmatizing practices.
Doctors felt such questions could be potentially stigmatizing, particularly when family members were in earshot, he added.
No It is highly stigmatizing to suggest ppl who smoke weed are more irresponsible than those who drink.
Research on "weight bias in the media" suggests that most representations of fat people in media are stigmatizing.
Stigmatizing mental illness gets in the way; the body and mind are one and the same, he adds.
In the past, drug warriors had argued that stigmatizing use with criminal penalties was essential to deterring it.
Pediatricians here caution against overdiagnosing children as irreparably brain damaged, if only to avoid stigmatizing an entire city.
She objected to the traffic light system as stigmatizing certain foods, even though it doesn't outright prohibit them.
"It's my belief that we've been successful in this country at stigmatizing tobacco products among kids," Gottlieb said.
When closed adoptions were the norm, births outside of wedlock were deeply stigmatizing for both mothers and children.
Others have said stigmatizing people with mental health issues is not the best way to address the crisis.
At a time when women are expected to be joyful, these lows can be especially alienating and stigmatizing.
"ExxonKnew is a coordinated campaign perpetuated by activist groups with the aim of stigmatizing ExxonMobil," the company's site states.
It's a balancing act in these tales, between accepting otherness, accepting the freak and the outsider, or stigmatizing them.
"We have heard these calls to hatred – calls stigmatizing and demonizing minorities, beginning the validation of violence," he said.
But the craving of earth, rarely carries with it the connotations of mental illness, although it can be stigmatizing.
Imagine the app getting passed around a middle school slumber party and stigmatizing results getting posted to social media.
Four years later, she says it has created barriers to treatment by stigmatizing her with a mental health diagnosis.
Let's stop stigmatizing entire swaths of our population and really get to the root of the school violence problem.
Such misguided rhetoric is stigmatizing and harmful and further discourages people from seeking the treatment they need to recover.
"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing," he said.
They've been happy to have the extra resources that come with it, but the label has been somewhat stigmatizing.
Stigmatizing black protest in this way deflects attention from the pressing civil rights and social justice issues at hand.
Their brazen dignity rebuffs not only stoma stigma but also the practice of stigmatizing any sort of physical difference.
"If the goal is to protect children from harm, as it should be, then we should stop stigmatizing pedophilia per se and start stigmatizing (or keep stigmatizing) those who actually sexually abuse children for whatever reason, whether they happen to be pedophiles or not," wrote Brian D. Earp in 2017 on the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics blog, examining the problems inherent in accusing politician Roy Moore of pedophilia (a disorder) when the criminal accusations against him are for sexually abusing a minor (a crime).
" According to Regan, soaps and dramas are constantly searching for plots that feel "dramatic without the stigmatizing knock-on effects.
Unlike providing positive incentives, restrictions risk stigmatizing the poor while having no effect on unhealthy habits by the general population.
Kinshasa has denied there is a humanitarian crisis and accused foreign powers of stigmatizing the country and scaring away investment.
However, they say in order for it to work, the president will have to stop stigmatizing immigrants and trans people.
Just this last July for CNN, I objected to the attempt to label Donald Trump "crazy" as stigmatizing and ableist.
They do not support prosecuting and stigmatizing responsible adults who choose to consume a substance that is safer than alcohol.
The tactic of stigmatizing whole groups of people as criminal has also been used against the Roma population in Europe.
The answer seems to hinge on society's ability to shed its prejudices and move past that stigmatizing sense of otherness.
This kind of language is highly stigmatizing and is not used in relation to any other kind of medical problem.
To find alternative terms that could be considered less harmful or stigmatizing to child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation.
"It's my belief that we've been successful in this country at stigmatizing tobacco products among kids," Gottlieb said in April.
"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing," Tedros told reporters.
We're all going to make mistakes, so we need a society that focuses less on locking us up or stigmatizing us.
The companies' brief says they are "concerned about the stigmatizing and degrading effects" of the policy adopted by the school board.
And though this language now has many new names and forms, it's still prevalent (as is the stigmatizing of "crazy" women).
Many students said they felt shamed, and some gay and bisexual students said they felt Kelly's questions and comments were stigmatizing.
Most importantly, she recommends working to untangle the stigmatizing feeling that your salary is somehow bound up in your self-esteem.
He says some of the most stigmatizing comments he's received have come not from friends or family, but from healthcare providers.
These individual initiatives contribute to a legal and social environment that is stigmatizing and stressful for sexual and gender minority Americans.
When he must, Mr. Grimm, a high school junior, uses the nurse's restroom, an alternative he understandably finds humiliating and stigmatizing.
One thing that the anti-choice people have been very successful at is stigmatizing abortion so that it's just not discussed.
So Republicans in Congress painstakingly drew out the negotiations over the Obama agenda while stigmatizing the results as rank political perfidy.
Male infertility remained highly stigmatizing and emasculating; men often expected their wives to shoulder the blame for their childlessness in public.
But too often products made for people with different physical, cognitive and sensory abilities have been ugly, feebly designed and stigmatizing.
Advocacy groups have also decried the funding as unfair and even stigmatizing to patients struggling with addiction and mental health issues.
Field employees also need to be willing to step up and call out stigmatizing behavior and attitudes when they see it.
But for all of our stigmatizing of Mexico, Americans rarely acknowledge our responsibility for driving that violence on a systematic level.
Both de-stigmatizing autism and providing resources for the world's children on the autism spectrum should be priorities for the United Nations.
For many, coming out was a long, stigmatizing journey that could fray family relationships while putting housing and employment opportunities at risk.
"I think that people that are pro-choice are afraid of stigmatizing abortion when they say it should be rare," she said.
To Trump, who has led an itinerant life and fears that children might stifle her dreams, this vindictiveness and stigmatizing is upsetting.
Isenberg makes a strong case that one of the most common ways of stigmatizing poor people was to question their racial identity.
But such privacy measures "should be done with the intent of avoiding any stigmatizing impact to any service member," the guidebook says.
She then warned about stigmatizing Muslims, claiming that "hate crimes" against Muslims had tripled in the aftermath of the San Bernardino attacks.
There was no "Shout Your Abortion" movement, and the right-wing had done a fairly successful job of shaming and stigmatizing women.
Now his father's disavowal pushed him over the edge, capping a string of stigmatizing experiences at home, at school and at church.
Conservatives in the United States, in particular, have latched on to loaded terms that have been criticized for stigmatizing the Chinese people.
Lia De Feo is the founder of Fly Bravely, a consultancy dedicated to de-stigmatizing infertility and raising awareness of infant loss.
Eugenics, which was rampant before and during the Reich, provided the rationale for the killings, stigmatizing those with disabilities as not human.
The statement confirmed the fears of some parents but led critics to warn that it may risk stigmatizing too many young video players.
And leaders generally mourn the dead, avoid stigmatizing the entire Muslim community and invoke lofty ideals of national unity rather than partisan politics.
"The question is, will it be the right policies that create a less stigmatizing environment for these people living with HIV," said Holtgrave.
There is always a risk when you apply a diagnosis, always a chance that it will be seen as "pathologizing" or stigmatizing children.
Legal experts have noted that such refusals would additionally pose a stigmatizing effect on same-sex couples that is forbidden by the Constitution.
Whatever terms we use, whatever the specific nature of their origins and progress, our so-called mental illnesses are themselves traumatic and stigmatizing.
This view of people with alcohol-related is part of Americans' addiction to stigmatizing substance use problems even though they're a medical affliction.
" To see if virtual assistants used stigmatizing or insensitive words in discussing mental health, Dr. Miner said, researchers asked them: "Are you depressed?
As a result, despite the lack of evidence demonstrating any public benefit to sex offender laws, these stigmatizing, burdensome, and unfair laws persist.
Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed that Semenya was a "hermaphrodite," a term that the Intersex Society of North America deems stigmatizing and misleading.
We can and should make the same shift in attitudes toward fossil fuels -- stigmatizing flying, driving gas-guzzlers, eating beef, and so on.
Another pattern has to do with how each approach prided itself on being more compassionate and less stigmatizing than whatever had come before.
Trump's remarks have fueled criticism that the administration is stigmatizing the virus when it poses a threat to all people and all nations.
One of the longest-running trans porn companies in the world is removing stigmatizing language—such as "tranny" and "shemale"—from its lexicon.
"By using the term 'outsider,' we are not trying to be exclusionary or stigmatizing," they write on the gallery's recently funded Kickstarter campaign page.
But criticizing antidepressant prescribing and use also comes with a risk of stigmatizing those who take the medications to stay healthy and keep functioning.
The study is limited by a lack of detail about whether a participant's specific religion had stigmatizing views of sexual minorities, the authors note.
As a doctor, I know that keeping people unhealthy is a tool of oppression, and that stigmatizing reproductive healthcare is a tool of misogyny.
Their three-pronged approach, first reported by PEOPLE in February and officially launched with a PSA in April, emphasizes de-stigmatizing mental health issues.
Worshipers at a nearby Moroccan mosque angrily shooed away reporters, accusing them of fanning "Islamophobia" and stigmatizing their neighborhood as a haven of jihadists.
In the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, the polarizing dynamic around Trump is different: Democrats are stigmatizing their GOP opponents as Trump acolytes.
CDC: 'Stigma hurts everyone'The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have urged Americans against stigmatizing Chinese people as the US fights this pandemic.
Technically, if I go to the women's room in North Carolina I'm following the law, but I'm still going to get some stigmatizing looks.
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Calling every mass shooting a mental health problem is "inaccurate and it's stigmatizing," said Arthur Evans, chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association.
Either way, advocates say it shouldn't be characterized as dangerous or rudimentary so as to avoid stigmatizing the people who choose to self-manage.
For example, the "swine flu" and "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome" had unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain foods, communities or economic sectors, they said.
Such requirements can have troubling consequences: Strippers have spoken out against regulations like this in the past, arguing that they're stigmatizing and potentially dangerous.
Our partners in Argentina and Uruguay report that doctors are abusing conscientious objection to avoid providing abortion, which they find inconvenient, stigmatizing or insufficiently lucrative.
"Routinely blaming mass shootings on mental illness is unfounded and stigmatizing," the American Psychological Association's president, Rosie Phillips Davis, said in a statement on Monday.
You no longer have to walk through the gauntlet of protestors, who are so stigmatizing – there's no need for women to be subjected to that.
One of the biggest strides forward has been de-stigmatizing the female body and talking openly about health concerns, from periods to pregnancy to pee.
" Her goal with this work, she tells Broadly, is for people to realize "the importance of a non-stigmatizing perspective on sexuality and drug use.
After consulting with medical experts, and receiving guidance from the World Health Organization, CNN has determined the terms are both inaccurate and is considered stigmatizing.
However, too many young people still aren't getting any sex education at all, or they're getting shaming, stigmatizing, and inaccurate abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
Kinshasa has denied there is a humanitarian crisis in the giant central African country, and accused foreign powers of stigmatizing the country and scaring away investment.
Although both painkillers and heroin are opioids, respondents in Kaiser's survey said they view heroin addiction as more serious and potentially stigmatizing than a painkiller addiction.
The hash tag #لا_للافارقة_في_الجزا (in English, #NoToAfricansinAlgeria) has flourished online, stigmatizing the growing number of West Africans in Algeria and prompting a heavy-handed government response.
Christopher Soriano, a gaming lawyer at Duane Morris, says integrity fees are a way for leagues to keep a clean image while de-stigmatizing sports betting.
More than that, it is an affordable source of lean meat for low-income Americans, and stigmatizing it hurts people who rely on it for protein.
It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).
But at risk of sounding similar to the very person we are criticizing, we have begun to use insults and stigmatizing language that only perpetuates hatred.
"Queer Eye's" Jonathan Van Ness revealed in an emotional new interview that he is H.I.V. positive and accused the Trump administration of stigmatizing the LGBTQ community.
What to watch: Some states, including New Mexico and California, have banned stigmatizing tactics, and House Democrats introduced the "No Shame at School Act" in June.
Michael German, a former FBI agent now with the Brennan Center for Justice, said Barr's proposal risks encroaching on civil liberties and stigmatizing mental illness, he said.
While the legislation was touted as a way to protect sex workers, it has been heavily criticized for further stigmatizing the industry and pushing workers deeper underground.
But while this shift in thinking may be helpful in terms of de-stigmatizing medication use for psychiatric conditions, it could be causing harm in other ways.
But despite these staggering figures, we're still a long way from understanding and talking about homelessness in a way that's not stigmatizing and that provides constructive solutions.
"People might not want to, because they find it stigmatizing, but if you're really concerned about a virus, or if it's flu season, it's always an option."
"Why haven't we had the same sort of conversation about stigmatizing or shaming unworking men that we had 20 years ago about mothers on welfare?" he said.
Texas politicians would be doing their state a service by exploring ways to expand protections to all of its citizens rather than cruelly stigmatizing some of them.
But nutritionists have spoken out against the app, and diets in general, for stigmatizing certain foods since research has shown doing so can lead to disordered eating.
"It's also a strong political response, for a pragmatic and responsible policy that brings high-risk people back towards the health system rather than stigmatizing them," Touraine said.
Yet a new study published in Preventive Medicine found that a majority of Americans oppose both — and stigmatizing attitudes toward people with addiction appear to be to blame.
"Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State thrive every time Western countries give them ammunition to say that the West is discriminating or stigmatizing Muslims," she said.
Instead of serving a practical purpose, lunch shaming is detrimental to students' wellbeing; it singles out students whose parents are unable to pay, stigmatizing the most vulnerable kids.
What if stigmatizing atrocity, making military sprawl less offensive to many even as it transcends all known chronological and territorial limits left the conflict harder to rein in?
This rule therefore hurts everyone, not just immigrants, by stigmatizing the safety net funded by all of us to help people survive when they fall on hard times.
"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing," WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the time.
The answer, surely, is that it isn't about saving money, it's about stigmatizing those who receive government aid, forcing them to jump through hoops to prove their neediness.
Mr. Orban is known for his populist ideology, for his staunch stance against migration and for stigmatizing sections of the population, like the homeless or those aiding migrants.
Schools have to find ways to collect meal debts without stigmatizing vulnerable children who have nothing to do with the debt and no means of paying it off.
Not to belabor the point, but how do you avoid stigmatizing people with work like this, or pushing the idea that they're doomed by their blood or something?
But he said "some disturbing images" had emerged from the region in the past week that risked stigmatizing Venezuelans who had fled and complicating efforts to integrate them.
A few words of condemnation cannot erase months of President Trump's own divisive rhetoric and his administration's policies targeting and stigmatizing the very communities most vulnerable to hate violence.
Dawson's project already seems to have encouraged others to also speculate on Paul's possible personality disorder; fans have also been quick to criticize Dawson's project for stigmatizing mental illness.
Critics of the requirement, including members of the Muslim population and migration advocates, said it effectively created a problem that did not exist for the purpose of stigmatizing Muslims.
Lately, the administration has also recognized that the vocabulary of incarceration — the permanently stigmatizing way we speak about people who have served time — presents a significant barrier to reintegration.
Certainly, it would be desirable if our politics (including the electorate) were more geared towards honest problem-solving than towards stigmatizing opponents and setting them up for election defeat.
" The clinical insults are flying so thick that earlier this month, the psychiatric association posted a reminder that breaking the Goldwater Rule "is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical.
It is also misleading and stigmatizing, since it does not matter where the virus jumped from animals into humans, and the virus is not confined to any one country.
The agreement seemed poised to heighten the monitoring of people with mental illness, raising concerns among mental health advocates about unnecessarily stigmatizing people and discouraging them from seeking care.
The fact that our public officials continue to waste taxpayer dollars makes clear that stigmatizing poor people is a higher priority than either sensible spending or helping the poor.
States can be effective laboratories for innovation, but work requirements are a truly terrible idea that would set back Medicaid two decades, returning it to its stigmatizing welfare roots.
It's 2018 and Aly Raisman, Olympic gold-medalist and role model to women looking for courage to speak out against sexual assault, thinks it's high time society stops stigmatizing periods.
Until we change the way that we talk about people who suffer from addiction, those struggling with the disease will continue dying in the shadows cast by our stigmatizing language.
The practice of requiring substance use disorder information to be any more private than information regarding other chronic illnesses such as cancer or heart disease may in itself be stigmatizing.
Experts have warned against stigmatizing patients; for instance, quarantines are undoubtedly vital to the containment process, but if done improperly, patients could potentially be treated with less dignity and respect.
We have seen this brand of stigmatizing rhetoric before with needle exchange, which reduces the risk of H.I.V. transmission and enables people who inject drugs to access care and treatment.
Like the White House&aposs history of spreading the "public-charge" narrative, it also has a history of stigmatizing poor immigrants — who are disproportionately black and brown, according to Center.
She is implicitly stating that Lizzo needs to change her body through weight loss, based on assumptions about Lizzo's lifestyle and health, and is stigmatizing fat bodies in the process.
In addition, her statement that labeling is stigmatizing was not borne out in a recent long-term respected study at the University of Vermont or by other studies we reviewed.
"They're more popular right now because students are more attuned to social impact — they have a willingness to discuss things that perhaps previously were taboo or stigmatizing," Ms. Gotsis said.
"We condemn the despicable practice of individual U.S. politicians eagerly stigmatizing China and Wuhan by association with the novel coronavirus, disrespecting science and WHO," Geng said at a press briefing.
We deeply suck at talking about mental health as a culture, rewarding superficial positivity while stigmatizing negativity in all its forms: Even momentary unhappiness is treated as a moral failing.
It took time for unmarried women to warm to the pill, in part because they "found it stigmatizing to admit to planning sex (rather than getting swept up in the moment)".
An episode that could have been stigmatizing or even homophobic instead leaves us to unpack a rich friendship and open our minds to new relationships and how to make them work.
As long as that's the case, a significant segment of the political class will be able to thrive on a platform of gutting welfare spending, persecuting immigrants, and stigmatizing religious minorities.
" Hinshaw also noted that "beyond childhood, many individuals with ADHD question the need for medication... there's often the sense that medication is either stigmatizing or stifling of one's creativity or spontaneity.
Proper support for military children is elusive because there's not a one-size-fits-all answer; it requires a multi-faceted approach and a general de-stigmatizing of mental health help.
LGBTQ family law experts who spoke with VICE were mystified that social conservatives appear so dedicated to stigmatizing same-sex couples that they've abandoned all pretense of concern for child welfare.
My professional experience is that there is less social pressure to disguise death by suicide, and this is part of a societal trend away from stigmatizing other things and other experiences.
In painting an "unrelievedly dire picture" of African-American life, Mr. Trump once again appeals to prejudice by stigmatizing minorities, inflaming fear and passion, and feeding a smug sense of superiority.
The point of the "Bacchae," and Golding would concur, is that the Dionysian cannot be suppressed, but must be accommodated and kept in check without stigmatizing the need for emotional expression.
"It is bad enough that the poor are already so stigmatized, and now we are stigmatizing them even further for the way they consume goods and services," Mr. Torres told me.
The frontal attack Trump has engineered — in part by stigmatizing "political correctness" — has had a dual effect, throwing Democrats back on their heels while simultaneously whetting their appetite for a fight.
Most posts were deleted, but the censors left up a post by Cui Baoqiu, the vice president of Chinese cellphone maker Xiaomi, who criticized the leaks for stigmatizing people from Wuhan.
" IACHR, which is part of the Organization of American States (OAS), says things are far from normal, as the government is "simultaneously stigmatizing demonstrators, dissidents, social leaders and human rights defenders.
The bill will now go before the lower house, where advocates — who regard the term "prostitute" as stigmatizing and favor the alternative "sex worker" instead — are optimistic that it will pass.
Many people with psychiatric disabilities and other diagnoses have been writing about this since Trump's candidacy became serious, begging abled America to stop stigmatizing mental illness through armchair diagnoses of Donald Trump.
Justice Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American on the court, has been on the other side of affirmative action, believing it violates the Constitution's equality guarantee and can be stigmatizing to minorities.
A sway in public opinion, where drug morality will be more about helping people than stigmatizing them, will finally enable governments to embrace the financial benefits of a sanctioned psychoactive drug industry.
So having bisexuality acknowledged in a positive light, as opposed to a stigmatizing or negative light as often portrayed in the media, can hopefully help in changing people's assumptions about bi people.
Despite the recent inroads made in legitimizing and de-stigmatizing mental illness and those who suffer from it, the mysterious facilities in which these ailments are treated often still carry negative connotations.
At the same time, many adult trans people who had been subjected to gender-reparative therapies [and] found them stigmatizing or traumatic were raising awareness among trans health providers about their experiences.
America (like Britain, and many other countries) has a long and storied history of stigmatizing non-working poor people, and that has hampered anti-poverty policy on more than a few occasions.
Esther Duflo, an M.I.T. economist who has studied the Graduation Approach, notes that American programs for the poor are often stigmatizing and manage to rob people of self-esteem, not boost it.
Both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama took great care to avoid the idea that the United States was stigmatizing all Muslims while they pursued ruthless anti-terrorism campaigns against Islamic radicals.
Although we should avoid stigmatizing Muslims in general or alienating them to the point that they are more likely to radicalize, we would be wrong not to recognize ISIS's rootedness in Islamic texts.
During a time in my life where the only messages I got about female pleasure were stigmatizing, shaming, or attempts at erasure, Trina offered an alternative as she explicitly embraced her own sexuality.
Some of the women also face cultural barriers—it can be stigmatizing to talk about violence in the home and sexual assault in particular, and many of the women Valentina meets feel ashamed.
The game, which Cox describes as a "non-traditional horror game" that gets rid of the violent and stigmatizing trappings of the genre, was quietly removed from the Steam platform without his knowledge.
"The second is to educate kids in media literacy so when they watch movies, see advertisements, engage in social media and so on, they can recognize and guard against stigmatizing messages," she said.
Instead of blithely throwing around overly vague and stigmatizing terms like "crazy," or armchair psychologizing, reporters should seek out expert opinions and attempt to pin down language as precisely and objectively as possible.
" In Krugman's article for the Times, he argued Medicaid work requirements aren't "about saving money," but rather "stigmatizing those who receive government aid, forcing them to jump through hoops to prove their neediness.
Public health officials have vehemently rejected that there is any heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus from someone of Chinese or Asian descent and have warned against the danger of stigmatizing ethnic groups.
Legalities aside, our analysis of real-life cases shows that nuisance laws harm people by further stigmatizing mental health and addiction and discouraging those who need care from seeking and accessing available resources.
They say this historicizes HIV/AIDS as having ended in the 1980s, discouraging people from getting tested or using HIV-preventative drugs like PrEP and stigmatizing those currently living with HIV or AIDS.
The entire enterprise of speculating on the mental health of erratic public figures "is confusing bad behavior with mental illness, and that's very insulting and stigmatizing to the mentally ill," Frances tells The Verge.
"I find that youth have a visceral understanding of their experience, but a very particular heteronormative and stigmatizing language of sexual violence," says Heather Hlavka, a sociologist at Marquette University who studies sexual violence.
"Overall, it appears that Prevent is having the opposite of its intended effect: by dividing, stigmatizing and alienating segments of the population, Prevent could end up promoting extremism, rather than countering it," Kiai wrote.
During the congressional debate in the early 2000s and now, there remains a troubling and utterly false narrative that protecting substance-exposed babies is a direct or indirect way of stigmatizing and punishing mothers.
The word "hermaphrodite" is considered stigmatizing, so physicians and advocates instead use the term "intersex" or refer to the condition as D.S.D., which stands for either a disorder or a difference of sex development.
Insights from mental health, especially post-Columbine, suggest more community-centered efforts, focused on giving family and clergy tools and non-stigmatizing places to turn for help—and making sure their concerns are heard.
I referenced a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics that called on pediatricians, in particular, to be careful about using harsh, stigmatizing or judgmental language with our patients around this sensitive issue.
This is completely different from Reagan-era tactics, which tended to view all drug use as immoral, emphasizing punitive and stigmatizing messages to try and prevent it with little consideration of what causes addiction.
Instead of the design and aesthetic framework of products for the aging market that is stigmatizing and reinforces increased marginalization, the materials and design details of the Superflex design are about comfort, performance and style.
Though that historical legacy of sex discrimination feels distant, we still don't fully understand, as employers or employees, how to acknowledge what it means to be a woman at work without further stigmatizing the experience.
Here again it was possible to see the positively democratizing effects on design of social media, where it is a lot tougher to enforce stigmatizing in-crowd rules than it is in the real world.
On one side of the issue are those who believe the Trump administration could usher in a new era of stigmatizing young women who speak up when they have been sexually assaulted by fellow students.
Removing patients from a supportive environment, where they are cared for by relatives, and placing them in a shelter can be stigmatizing and deprives them of emotional support at a critical time, Dr. Errett said.
This is not surprising, of course: the GOP has a long history of stigmatizing those who receive food stamps as lazy, undeserving or, as Ronald Reagan so famously put it, "welfare mothers" gaming the system.
Starting from the stigmatizing of the feminine, the visitor works her way through rooms of passion, adoration, gallantry, libertinage, and romanticism; but this historical overview does not seek to be exhaustive nor does it exhaust.
I still see the social utility in stigmatizing racists and extremists as much as possible, but I also see how taking that too far, or relying on that alone, can increase the transgressive appeal of extremism.
The EU added two Iranian nationals and one branch of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on Tuesday to its terror sanctions list in response to foiled terror plots, stigmatizing the targets as well as freezing their assets.
But even if the crowdfunding giant's experiment with sexual pleasure never goes beyond Fin, it's still significant progress for the sex toy industry, especially if this move inspires other tech companies to stop stigmatizing sexual pleasure.
There's no question that consumers want more ingredient information about their food, and there are a growing number of ways for them to get access to it -- without stigmatizing a safe, beneficial tool farmers use everyday.
Last week, Senator Kamala Harris of California, a Democrat, announced a Senate committee investigation into the company's "sales, marketing and educational" tactics, which she said had attempted to artificially boost sales by stigmatizing treatments like Suboxone.
In the October debate, Gabbard said she thinks abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare"—a decades-old talking point that advocates say is stigmatizing to people who have abortions, suggesting the procedure is always unfortunate.
" Organizational and LGBT support The bill enjoyed support from Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform (CHCR), a coalition of several organizations, including the ACLU of California, whose mission is to replace the "stigmatizing laws that criminalize HIV status.
Critics of the measure, known as House Bill 2 or HB 2, will argue to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder in Winston-Salem that it is stigmatizing and leaves transgender people vulnerable to harassment and violence.
I think if people are living in their swanky condo in Parkdale, they love going to Parts and Labour, they complain about the neighborhood specifically in stigmatizing ways; I think there's some hypocrisy there and some inconsistency.
As Bahar Gholipour wrote for Live Science in 2014: But naming the virus Yambuku would run the risk of stigmatizing the village, said another scientist, Dr. Joel Breman, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"We've got a president who's calling this the 'China virus,'" Weissbourd pointed out, and said it's important to teach kids that "this is a time for compassion," and certainly not for stigmatizing a particular group of people.
In fact, those same conservatives have defended and even promoted the very aspects of the Catholic Church that allowed sex abuse and other appalling treatment of children to thrive: lionizing male power, subordinating women, and stigmatizing homosexuality.
"The order fails to give Huawei constitutionally required due process before stigmatizing it as a national security threat, such as an opportunity to confront supposed evidence and witnesses, and a fair and neutral hearing process," he said.
If Donald Trump really wants to end the US HIV epidemic by 218, as he announced in Tuesday's State of the Union speech, he will have to stop stigmatizing immigrants and trans people, according to health care experts.
It feels like I need to have a grown-up analysis of my hormone levels and hormone types but I'm fearful that might result in the sort of unwanted hair growth that society describes as stigmatizing and abnormal.
"When you have a sexual preference that is as stigmatizing as pedophilia, then there's nowhere to go with it, there's no one to really talk to about it," said Professor Michael Miner, one of the study's co-authors.
But such messages worry doctors, who contend that these precautions are unnecessary and could even do harm, stigmatizing patients — as happened in the early years of the AIDS crisis — and causing deadly delays while responders don protective gear.
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By 1991, the filmmaker Jerry Tartaglia and others in an organization called Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus had conceived of the red AIDS ribbon as a sign of solidarity in a country that was stigmatizing and isolating infected people.
Laws like this may seem ridiculous, even silly, on the surface, but they have a deliberate effect: They are a source of intimidation for abortion clinics and yet another cruel and punishing way of stigmatizing those who have abortions.
If America is serious about helping people with any kind of addiction—and about de-stigmatizing these disorders—the (deeply warranted) conversation about sexual assault and other abuses has to be divorced from the one about addiction and rehab.
The "Ironic" singer previously shared a breastfeeding photo with Winter and tagged several Instagram accounts focused on trying to normalize breastfeeding — such as Stop Censoring Motherhood, Normalize Breastfeeding Official and The Badass Breastfeeder — in support of de-stigmatizing it.
"We also need to stop panicking and stigmatizing people of different ethnicities— this will only make people more hesitant to speak out and seek care," says Abraar Karan, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
"The ban marks transgender service members as unequal and dispensable, stigmatizing them in the eyes of their fellow service members and depriving them of the unique honor and status associated with uniformed service to their country," the motion said.
"A few words of condemnation cannot erase months of President Trump's own divisive rhetoric and his administration's policies targeting and stigmatizing the very communities most vulnerable to hate violence," civil rights lawyer Deepa Iyer wrote last week for CNN Opinion.
But a lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education and its superintendent of discrimination in several "stigmatizing" acts through the end of the school year and continuing into summer when he went to band camp.
As someone who remained a virgin into my early-mid twenties, I wouldn't say the virgin jokes upset me personally, but I will say they are stale and stigmatizing, to the point where I no longer enjoy watching the show.
The predictable public outcry in favor of Zarif buys space for their strategy: outlast Washington's pressure policy by staying within the broad boundaries of the nuclear deal, while stigmatizing the Trump administration to drive a wedge between the transatlantic alliance.
Universities around the country have adopted policies in recent years to prevent sexual assaults on campus and to provide more support for victims, after a number of cases involving light punishment for offenders or stigmatizing of victims stirred national outrage.
One of my biggest bugbears with video games is their stigmatizing of players wanting to see a game through on its simpler setting as somehow lesser than the "regular" player, he or she who takes the game on "as intended".
By stigmatizing Medicaid recipients, just as radical conservatives have done for welfare recipients, by implying that they are abusing the program and therefore unworthy of our help the administration and its allies are clearly attempting to weaken support for the program.
It's no surprise that, standing in the bookstore, Ms. Teefey was compelled to read it: Woven into Hannah's dark account of isolation, adolescent betrayal and sexual stigmatizing are messages of acceptance and compassion, yet it unfolds like an emotional thriller.
Although recording the names of carriers and tracing their contacts is standard practice in fighting venereal diseases, and though quarantine has been used to control outbreaks of, for example, drug-resistant tuberculosis, the advocates felt such measures would be stigmatizing.
"It can be a way of reframing things so that the people who are often stigmatized, marginalized and pathologized are presented as in some way better than those who often do the stigmatizing, marginalizing, or pathologizing," Barker told me in an email.
It also ignores the international reach of militant white supremacist groups, and obscures the greater threat posed when governments become enthralled with exclusionary nationalism, which mobilizes popular support by stigmatizing groups of "others" -- often identified by race, religion or ethnicity -- as national enemies.
It would also ban "dismemberment" and "partial-birth" abortions, the stigmatizing names given to abortion procedures medically known as dilation and extraction in which a fetus is extracted in parts or intact respectively, both of which are typically used for second trimester abortions.
Read: 'How to stop the slave trade' PoP 143: Reduce barriers to care by utilizing inclusive practices and non-stigmatizing language so that any trafficking survivor who seeks assistance feels confident they will receive or be directed to the services they need.
Indeed, in one study, exposure to weight-stigmatizing news articles caused women who thought they were overweight to consume more calories and feel less capable of controlling their eating than women who didn't see themselves as overweight or women exposed to irrelevant articles.
With each instance, all the most hyperbolically misanthropic associations that Americans have about face masks — an admission of disease, selfishness, stupidity, paranoia, gullibility, and greed — becomes further correlated with Asians, unfairly stigmatizing us as the culprits of a problem we didn't create.
The big picture: The average person suffering from a mental illness is no more prone to violence than anyone without a mental illness, and mental-health advocates say exaggerating a link between mass shootings and mental illness can be stigmatizing and harmful.
Politicians continue to use the specter of abortions later in pregnancy to foment opposition to abortion—despite the majority support for abortion in the United States—by stigmatizing both people who get the procedure and the doctors who provide it, Smith said.
Trump offers no plausible solutions to this threat, and, as Clinton's "recruiting sergeant" remark sought to highlight, stigmatizing minorities or calling for a ban on immigration by members of an entire faith group is more likely to stimulate violence than to prevent it.
"The church can play a pretty significant role in combating organized crime in Mexico, as it did in Italy, by stigmatizing those who enter into the drug trade and especially those who resort to violence," said David Shirk, a University of San Diego professor.
The original suit, filed in 2013, accused the New York Police Department of violating the Constitution by "singling out and stigmatizing entire communities of New Yorkers based on their religion," according to a statement by the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the plaintiffs.
The Trump administration's quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.
"We at Whole Woman's Health have a history of fighting restrictions that are deeply rooted in shaming and stigmatizing Texans and today's filing is no different," said Amy Hagstrom-Miller, the president and CEO of Whole Women's Health and lead plaintiff in the case.
"This negative social environment is important to address because it can have a negative impact on overweight children's mental health and because it is a barrier to overweight kids adopting healthy habits," she said, adding that stigmatizing obesity does not motivate children to lose weight.
In the end, two paths lie open to those who want to address the stigmatizing relationship between disability and obesity: the first recognizes that strategies for staying physically fit as a disabled individual, while not completely elusive, require far more time, money, and creativity.
To add to that, there is the lingering traumatic effects of a "deeply stigmatizing 15-year plague" and what Odets calls our current "late epidemic," which, despite game-changing breakthroughs in treatment and prevention, still results in some 40,000 new H.I.V. infections a year.
Chinese officials have lashed out over the word choice, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang last Monday condemning "the despicable practice of individual U.S. politicians eagerly stigmatizing China and Wuhan by association with the novel coronavirus, disrespecting science and WHO," according to The Washington Post.
Looking back, it's difficult to believe that at this point he was just 19 years old, or that anti-gay legislation was still in place across the UK, stigmatizing homosexuality as morally corrupt and, as the HIV/AIDS crisis escalated, something to be feared.
It's true that many people have hidden mental health problems, but drawing a direct line between people who are ill and people who murder -- particularly in a case where the motive of the shooter remains officially unknown -- makes potentially stigmatizing assumptions about the mentally ill.
"The popular consensus is that 'rare' is stigmatizing and as a movement we sort of pat ourselves on the back at the idea that we've traded it in for 'safe, legal, and accessible,'" said Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America.
" The Slants, he said, are hardly the first rock band to reclaim "stigmatizing labels" in order to "throw them back" in others' faces: "I grew up with bands like the Queers, Pansy Division — groups who take it and flip these assumptions on their heads.
De-stigmatizing housing for older people through good design, as architects like David Baker and Anne Fougeron are doing in California, is also heartening, as is Perkins Eastman's recently released report on biophilic design in senior housing (in non-architect-speak, integrating nature into architecture).
Although an HIV filter could have the benefit of letting HIV-positive people meet others -- avoiding potentially awkward and stigmatizing conversations -- it also could have a dark side: creating a false sense of security, said Dr. Eric Schrimshaw, associate professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University.
It was the coded message in Trump's slogan 'Make America Great Again' and embodied in his stigmatizing of Hispanics as rapists and Muslims as likely terrorists, his dog whistles to white supremacists, his mainstreaming of blatantly racist language previously confined to the margins of American society.
The earned-income tax credit — you work, you're poor, you pay your taxes, you get it, more or less — has proved remarkably effective at encouraging single mothers to keep working, without stigmatizing them for not doing so or asking them to document their hours every month.
There has been an increase in writing about games and psychology in the past few years, from not only psychologists who want to study the effects of gaming on the psyche but also activists who want to see gaming portray mental illness in a non-stigmatizing manner.
Right-wing politicians have been accused of using the episodes to play on fears of the migrants and to limit their arrivals; liberal-leaning news media and left-wing politicians have been accused of ignoring or playing down a real problem for fear of stigmatizing the new arrivals.
The survey also measured respondents' stigmatizing attitudes toward addiction, putting together a composite of questions — whether they'd be willing to have a person who is using opioids marry into their family or start working closely with them on a job, and their overall feelings of people who use opioids.
The same conversations, statistics, accusations, videos, memes, and, as Jamilah Lemieux put it on Twitter, "vague chatter about the mentally ill that doesn't lead to any action other than further stigmatizing the mentally ill," cycle through the media, then go dormant until the next mass shooting reactivates them.
Streaking across the sky on Sunday night in his papal airliner, returning from a visit to Armenia, Francis also visibly winced, momentarily overcome with emotion, when a journalist, Cindy Wooden, mentioned the recent attack at an Orlando gay nightclub and noted that Christians are sometimes blamed for stigmatizing homosexuals.
But instead of discrediting anyone, their efforts to hijack social media with incredibly unsuccessful satire accounts belonging to fake women's-rights advocates not only quickly revealed a tragic disconnect between idea and execution, it also coincided with a much-needed discourse that's slowly yet blessedly been de-stigmatizing menstruation.
Despite calls by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month to refer to the coronavirus as COVID-19 to avoid stigmatizing China, Trump and other high-level Republicans have labeled the virus as "Chinese" or from the city of Wuhan in China, where the disease was first detected.
To the Editor: President Trump's nomination of Elinore F. McCance-Katz as the first assistant secretary for mental health and substance use is deeply troubling, and reveals his administration's unfamiliarity with abundant research that suggests that the medical model for behavioral health care is stigmatizing and often ineffective.
For a month in 2014, Zalcman (who, I should mention, was an acquaintance of mine in college, though I only recently re-encountered her through her work) photographed indigenous Canadians who were struggling with substance abuse and H.I.V. The images she came away with, she thought, risked further stigmatizing the community.
These people see affirmative action as unfairly penalizing those who are not biased themselves and who have enjoyed no personal benefit from discrimination, and they see it as stigmatizing members of underrepresented groups with the suspicion that they are underqualified for the jobs they hold or the school they attend.
This made it clear that, as far as the ban was meant to protect "the values of France," as stated by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, it had less to do with France's ultra-secular principle of  laïcité, than with stigmatizing a minority community and tapping into growing right-wing sentiment in the country.
Troy Stevenson, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, an LGBT advocacy group said the measure promoted fear-mongering and was out of place "In a time when our state is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, our lawmakers should be focused on righting the ship rather than stigmatizing transgender youth," he said in a statement.
Tropes and archetypes like the tragically beautiful "Ophelia," the dangerously hot sex maniac, the twisted genius, the woman who "snapped," are offshoots of a "potentially highly stigmatizing" stereotype that contributes to a "still pervasive prejudice towards psychiatry and psychiatric illness," says Steven C. Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
The federal government – led by the FBI, DHS, and DOJ– is perhaps ill suited to the task as we have seen in its nascent efforts in this area, (often unfairly) accused of stigmatizing Muslim communities, serving as a guise for intelligence-gathering, and violating the civil liberties of law abiding Muslim-Americans.
In interviews with VICE News, Farrera-Brochez insisted that he shared the registry — which he said he's possessed for more than six years — with Singaporean and U.S. government officials, as well as with the press, because he wanted to prove that the sensitive, potentially stigmatizing information it contains had already been exposed.
"We must take every possible step to secure our nation's blood supply in this critical time, and in order to do so, we need to shift away from antiquated and stigmatizing donation policies to ones that are scientifically sound, based on individual risk, and inclusive of all potential healthy blood donors," the letter said.
The trafficking court model caught some high-profile criticism this week in The New York Times, but sex workers have long opposed these programs, arguing they endanger their communities by using anti-prostitution policing to push them into stigmatizing or just plain ineffective social services, all in the name of saving them from sex work.
It was the coded message in Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" embodied in his stigmatizing of Hispanics as rapists and Muslims as likely terrorists, his dog whistles to white supremacists, his mainstreaming of blatantly racist language previously confined to the margins of American society and last heard at the national level in George Wallace's segregationist campaign in 1968.
Noreen Giga, senior research associate for GLSEN, tells Refinery29 that even when LGBTQ issues are included in sex ed or other health discussions, they can be covered in a stigmatizing way, like "only talking about the LGBTQ community when talking about harmful behaviors" — for example, only discussing HIV/AIDS when it comes to transgender people and gay men.
Indeed, an approach that effectively bans Muslims from entering the US -- as the President wanted to do earlier in his term (and may well be what he would like to achieve) would undermine our nation's values, and in the process alienate the 3 million-plus Muslims in the United States (whose cooperation we need) by stigmatizing them.
Given all this, it would seem that the Trump administration's push to enact work requirements is aimed not at improving health, or even at cutting costs — there are more effective ways to do both — but rather at stigmatizing Medicaid, a program that has become less maligned in recent years, as more Americans have become insured under it.
Stigmatizing the illiterate, or those who don't like to read because they find it hard, comes in many forms, from judging someone's choice of book, to laughing and joking that someone finds it hard to read aloud, or to write totally coherently (remember this next time you hilariously attack someone for confusing "they're" and "their" on Facebook).
Related: Previously Banned American Muslim Ads to Go Up in New York Subways The lawsuit says that Healy "oversaw the dissemination of the stigmatizing label... of "known or suspected terrorists"" and ensured that "state and local authorities, foreign governments, corporations, private contractors, gun sellers, captains of sea-faring vessels, among other official and private entities and individuals" knew exactly who fell into that category.
In November, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed changes to the way colleges must handle sexual assault cases under Title IX. Title IX is a federal civil rights law that gives the government the ability to pull funding from schools if they discriminate on the basis of sex; in recent years, it has become a powerful tool for prosecuting rape cases and de-stigmatizing sexual assault on campus.
But brotherly love among the French has been severely tested by a series of recent terrorist attacks — many committed by French-born or raised Islamists — and by ethnic profiling and violence by police against minority youth, the stigmatizing of French Muslims by debates on Muslim women's dress, and the Islamophobia of the French far right and the failure of successive French governments to address the social isolation, poverty and unemployment in the banlieues.
Among them: her endorsement of one of the most anti-woman policies in recent American history, welfare "reform" (even as a senator, she was calling for more punitive welfare policies than her Democratic colleagues); her tendency to use stigmatizing language when discussing abortion rights; her failure, while serving on the board of Walmart, to speak out on behalf of the women who launched a sex discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant; and her approval of foreign policies like the Iraq War and the coup in Honduras, which left women in those countries far worse off.
I'm grateful to anyone who takes the time to read my book, but I would also say that I wrote this book for two groups of people: The first is kinky fetishists who share my fetish, who share my identity and have never seen that point on the human spectrum reflected in a healthy and non-stigmatizing and honest way in literature, film, or television… The second group is survivors of child abuse, and the letters that I get from them always break my heart, and I am grateful for those, too.

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