It is unflinching in its willingness to transgress taboos, whether those taboos are religious, sexual or both.
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In addition to addressing a host of social taboos, Scott challenges art world taboos against beauty and humor, which are often not taken seriously by critics and curators.
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TWINS - AND OTHER TABOOS Dead ancestors are revered in Madagascar, and their beliefs are clung to in a wide range of cultural taboos - "fady" - which vary from one region to the next.
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"There are three taboos; sex, religion and politics," she says.
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"Let's talk taboos!" the emcee said, and the women did.
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Should they abandon their traditional dress codes and food taboos?
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But broader acceptance will probably require overcoming our cultural taboos.
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In the best comedy, taboos are broken and boundaries punctured.
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The point was to flout as many taboos as possible.
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But traditional taboos come under great strain on the spaceship.
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"A lot of taboos have been broken," Mr. Hass said.
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Sometimes it's societal taboos or infidelity, maybe a terrible accident.
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Myths and taboos (including ideological prejudices) are nothing to him.
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Because he is expressing an instinctive willingness to violate taboos.
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It was really cool and kind of took taboos off things.
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Do you think it has to do with breaking taboos together?
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Violating political and social taboos is part of his political brand.
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Taboos that would be farcical if the consequences weren't so dire.
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New stars have begun to appear, exploring subgenres and breaking taboos.
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"All options are on the table, without any taboos," Rutte said.
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Is going number two one of the last female workplace taboos?
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He has a taste for provocation and relishes challenging Washington taboos.
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But it also has strong taboos against open discussion of racism.
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Well, that's not good enough, and the taboos have been broken.
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He defied cultural taboos by touching lepers and dining with shady characters.
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Africa's biggest social issues and taboos are no match for these girls.
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Mr Trump had already shattered taboos surrounding decency, honesty and intellectual incoherence.
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Do you hope to change people's taboos and hangups about sexual imagery?
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But the Arab spring in 2011 swept away a host of taboos.
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How do you think your party will help to break these taboos?
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This is in part because it's taboo, and many taboos are erotic.
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There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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How does she escape from the taboos pressuring her from all sides?
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Minority and women candidates can't challenge the taboos Trump has gleefully ignored.
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I understand that openness beats secrecy and that taboos should be challenged.
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"The aim was to break taboos," Mr. Brus said of his actions.
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Like his plays, these works map social taboos that still haunt America.
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Yours is a generation that dissects taboos and eats them for breakfast!
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"There are a lot of taboos about sexuality in Mexico," Mayor said.
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Based in the more liberal environment of Belgrade, they blasted taboos to smithereens.
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In many parts of India, people still follow caste taboos, and often violently.
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Here, as in "Ave Maria," religious taboos and linguistic barriers complicate the procedure.
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But over time the taboos on women in public life seem to fraying.
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What's left in the list of taboos that we can still legally do?
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By cheerfully undermining unspoken taboos, she reveals much about the repressions governing art.
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Recognizing no taboos, he is free to experiment with whatever catches his interest.
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It shatters families, tramples taboos, and every now and then even soothes enmities.
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And those taboos and rituals reveal a great deal about the broader culture.
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"There is so much machismo, discrimination and taboos around LGBT couples," she wrote.
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We don't have more cultural taboos than we used to — far from it.
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That's because the partnerships at the center of French's novels have certain taboos.
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All families are their own countries, with their own idioms, rites and taboos.
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Without policing and erasing by law and popular culture, taboos lose their authority.
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Jesus broke with the traditions and taboos of His day to touch lepers.
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They've charged through taboos and soundtracked crippling depression by reimagining Nina Simone classics.
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Banished Chhaupadi dates back centuries and has its roots in Hindu taboos over menstruation.
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Rohrer sees these emerging taboos as the beginning of One Hour, One Life's morality.
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And a surprising number of urban Indians admit they still adhere to caste taboos.
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That the show would be overtly irreverent about taboos, including sex, was a given.
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For others the willingness to break taboos was proof that he is an outsider.
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Some of our cousins in the animal kingdom do not avoid these trifling taboos.
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The cultural taboos around evolution run very deep in this part of the country.
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Banished Chhaupadi dates back centuries and has its roots in Hindu taboos over menstruation.
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AK was once the party that broke taboos by acknowledging the Kurds' past persecution.
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Consider too that taboos around porn and other explicit sexual content are slowly fading.
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It suggests how difficult it will be to overcome our scientific and technological taboos.
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On the ship, the human beings fight to preserve the taboos they have left.
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Extremity means breaking through barriers, challenging taboos, and pushing back against traditional social mores.
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Every society is civilized, or blinkered, by its choice of moral and political taboos.
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The Normal Party: Donald Trump is a chaos candidate, a flagrant breaker of taboos.
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Houston native Inayah Lamis is ready to break some taboos and spill her tea.
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It is about YOU not feeling alone, it is about breaking taboos and sharing experiences.
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According to my mom, pornography was one of the biggest taboos when she grew up.
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Most of the taboos we use in this country have to do with bodily functions.
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These authors mainly focus on women who break taboos by not striving to be better.
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"And it helps to decrease the stigmas and taboos associated with sexual health and wellness."
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In a song called Sister he even exploited the Big Daddy of all taboos: incest.
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Magnanti now wants to lift the veil on the taboos and cultural denial around abortion.
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He was willing to say what perhaps others were thinking and to shatter verbal taboos.
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Trump was an outsider who violated partisan taboos and threatened to shake up the system.
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We allow no taboos against and seize every chance for the spread of knowledge. 4.
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These days it's useless, not to mention passé, to complain about taboos pertaining to depiction.
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From a man who exults in breaking foreign-policy taboos, they would be truly remarkable.
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Armed with social media and audacity, more people are questioning taboos around religion and sexuality.
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I couldn't talk about it for taboos, for threats… I couldn't sleep, I was afraid.
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Ultimately, the side that's frantically trying to shore up taboos is the side that's losing.
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These factors can range from body image struggles to societal taboos originating from religious beliefs.
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At least they wouldn't invoke divine sanction or cultural taboos before having us for lunch.
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Saudi Arabia's growing circle of social media influencers still tread cautiously when approaching cultural taboos.
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One of its central messages is that dismantling gynecological taboos is not a gendered issue.
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Germany's traditional political parties have been reluctant to indulge that desire because of political taboos.
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The campaign helped propel conversations about menstrual taboos into the mainstream-media narrative in India.
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There exist a whole class of people, Rebecca reflected, who want taboos broken for them.
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He showed us this over and again, breaking taboos gutting sacred cows at a breakneck pace.
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In 2014, Sheikh published his second book, Addressing the Taboos: Love, Marriage and Sex in Islam.
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Contatto Experience challenges diners to approach food in a more direct way, bypassing barriers and taboos.
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Each section comes heavily footnoted, indicating the appearance of traditional folk tale motifs — taboos, odd coincidences.
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Menstruation taboos can be found all over the world - here are 10 of the most common.
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Many of the items uncovered testify that Kahlo broke taboos not only artistically, but also personally.
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It is important to understand, clarify, go beyond taboos and secrets, and make our own opinions.
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Trump was a dominant media personality and a well-known rule breaker and violator of taboos.
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We live in times where old taboos about mental health and pursuing therapy are being lifted.
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But other nations are still constrained by local cultural taboos about discussing child abuse, he said.
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We could question taboos and start saying things that we were not able to say before.
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It's not good at arguing and relies instead on taboos and punishing people who violate them.
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It gleamed, like a tiny shiv you might use to slice away at age-old taboos.
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But Trump is transaction-oriented, not beholden to taboos he believes do not serve his interests.
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And what are the implications when the president flouts what used to be seen as taboos?
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Lesbian, gay, and queer defenders saw porn as an opportunity to challenge sexual norms and taboos.
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Social pressures, religious authorities and ingrained taboos may still keep many Palestinians away from the polls.
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But that first requires dismantling the taboos around sex and the tools that enhance or enable it.
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It has also pushed back social taboos by ensuring that drug users and sex workers are treated.
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That was actually par for the course for L.A. Law; the series was known for breaking taboos.
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"Being trans is portrayed as a morbid topic with many taboos," Manz and Sánchez explain to Creators.
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Here's what I learned the hard way: Mental illness is one of the last true societal taboos.
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"All the taboos have gone," says Ricardo Mendes of Prospectiva, a consultancy that specialises in trade policy.
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So there's a lot of taboos around cooking food, like you never cook food when you're angry.
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"It was a turning point in the representation of pregnancy, a breaking of multiple taboos," she said.
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Swearing suggests that you've absorbed a culture, including its taboos, a trickier accomplishment than it may seem.
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Despite the easing of taboos, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession, studies are showing.
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Periods are still one of the world&aposs biggest taboos, and many women suffer because of it.
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The boys knew these tales of dispossession and heeded them as they did the báhádzidii, the taboos.
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If young people do not question or break taboos and stereotypes, we are not going to progress.
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CO: As liberal and open as the art world can be, there are still so many taboos.
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"We want to break the taboos," said Mauri, 35, who works on issues of sexuality in her photography.
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But in today's society, it feels like so many old taboos are becoming normalized—religion, sex, bodily fluids.
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The surprising finding was that generally, the more taboos they threw out, the more words they knew overall.
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This is the generation that is shattering taboos and redefining old notions of gender, sexuality, and racial justice.
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Given all the taboos involved, FGM isn't an issue most US Muslim communities address unless they're forced to.
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Trump, for his part, doesn't seem to care about political norms or taboos as a matter of principles.
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Set behind twelve different authentic Chinese restaurants, the show tackles society's greatest taboos, from sex work to littering.
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While taboos around mental illness are slowly lessening, the reality is, it's still hard — and kind of scary!
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He tells me that what he likes about Berlin nights is that people there have almost no taboos.
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"Over the last couple of years, nudity has emerged from being one of society's taboos," she told Vice.
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Whereas producing porn and other erotic images at your parties is central to your mission of breaking taboos.
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But to Aneta Bartos, taboos are like the flimsy red ribbons of finish lines: built to be broken.
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But I suspect their comments reveal one of the last major taboos that exist in the dating realm.
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Its objective would be to propose changes to the bloc's political project without taboos, including reviewing existing treaties.
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"Over the last couple of years, nudity has emerged from being one of society's taboos," Vogel tells Creators.
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Yiannopoulos's whole brand of activist journalism is, by explicit design, aimed at breaking down taboos around offensive speech.
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Through Valentina, Crepax unhinged the sexual taboos of Italian society dominated by the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
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But certainly by the 1960s, blackface had become one of the few very absolute taboos in American culture.
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A civilization unto itself, with a rigorous hierarchy and unspoken taboos, the hotel hums with mystery and menace.
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But it still feels like there are some firm taboos in the way from making that a reality.
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Although she goes to school, she abides by the curses, bad omens and taboos of her local culture.
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He projected himself as a man of the people, a Siberian who spoke the truth and battled taboos.
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At times he broke rhetorical taboos, attacking the human rights record of the security forces and the judiciary.
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"Trump has created this scenario by breaking a lot of the taboos, rather fast and quickly," he added.
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But how difficult is it to break through sexual taboos and take on powerful people and mighty institutions?
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" In the words of Professor Wills, "He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.
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American political discourse has extremely strong taboos right now against open discussion of race, and Trump broke those.
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Speaking out during times of trouble can help conquer negative feelings — and shatter taboos around money silence, Francis said.
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Women freely walk without headscarves, while teenagers hold hands and flirt, both of which were taboos under Bashir's rule.
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More can be done to break the taboos that prevent the depressed from opening up to friends and doctors.
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The book takes us through the cultural history of blood, as well as the scientific advances and endearing taboos.
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We didn't think The Bachelor would be the franchise to break plastic surgery taboos, but we're here for it.
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Perhaps inevitably, Francis Bacon and David Hockney are summoned to represent the final breaking of taboos in the 1960s.
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The taboos that people feel, the hang-ups they have with their bodies, it all starts with loving themselves.
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Swift sends this message as many other musicians have — through taboos like sex, alcohol, and even drugs, sort of.
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Bob the Drag Queen gives us further insight by reminding us how taboos hold different power in different locations.
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"These are calculated breaches of taboos," Joerg Forbrig, a fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, told me.
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And, like many sexual taboos, these feelings become something to fantasize over, fetishize, exploit, or even be addicted to.
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It's also flat and completely lacking in the energy of lust, daring, fun, or even glee at breaking taboos.
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To be sure, its taboos have helped keep the most horrific slurs and calumnies out of the public sphere.
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"The urgency of the H.I.V. epidemic really exploded a lot of taboos," says Catherine Murphy, an Amnesty policy adviser.
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"We want to break down the taboos around periods," Nicola Coronado, marketing director of Bodyform, said in a statement.
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The repercussions can be as specific as the taboos: Sing while eating and your teeth will grow uncomfortably long.
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"A lot of people are very fascinated [by us], because they've heard taboos, stigma, discrimination and suicide," Virgona said.
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But men themselves have played a major role in lifting taboos, in ways that are instructive for the West.
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Out of the limelight, many women are sharing details of their salaries, breaching taboos against honest talk about money.
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Each episode brings her to a different country in Asia, Europe and Africa to explore carnal taboos and norms.
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In her new solo piece, Mette Ingvartsen unravels taboos onstage by reenacting key moments in the history of porn.
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It provides us collectively with spaces to explore new and controversial possibilities, to transgress taboos and ignore arbitrary rules.
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Through savvy marketing, Thinx linked its principal product, absorbent underwear, with a mission to break social taboos about menstruation.
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One of the pillars of that framework is the military justice system; another is societal taboos against aberrant behavior.
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It's refreshing, I think, to find ways of breaking any sort of taboos about these types of cross-generational relationships.
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Trump won the presidency by smashing taboos and tapping into angry anti-elite sentiments most real politicians didn't even hear.
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He's shattered taboos on Israel by calling openly for more "respect and dignity" to be shown to the Palestinian people.
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Every cycle of crisis risks heightening perceptions of the military as a partisan institution and weakening taboos against its involvement.
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There's a lot of messages that aren't being communicated in society and a lot of taboos that aren't being addressed.
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That can be damaging in a region where taboos surrounding menstruation already exist, said Thérèse Mahon, the report's co-author.
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What is it about morals, taboos, systems of laws, and shifts in attitudes toward violence over the last 50 years?
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Experts argue these conversations can help break down the taboos around the subject and hold you accountable to your goals.
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People become less easily outraged by the shattering of taboos, and a candidate becomes emboldened to go further next time.
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And Japanese spending is set to surge in the next five years, with new offensive weapons breaking old pacifist taboos.
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At the end, it is up to us women to break the archaic and unnecessary taboos that surround our periods.
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In some cases, Dong broke strict taboos by demonstrating to commemorate victims of the deadly 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
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Old gods governing taboos and traditions are dead—it is no longer forbidden to express racist thoughts frankly and crudely.
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Despite Dunn's ongoing efforts to strip away the taboos that come with talking about money, the conversations haven't gotten easier.
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Indifference toward our mistreatment is viewed as an unfortunate side effect to the necessary art of challenging taboos through laughter.
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Teaching children awareness and empathy at a young age can help undermine stigmas and social taboos associated with gender fluidity.
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Goode and the entrepreneur, Lora DiCarlo, toured some of the health and wellness section and talked about taboos around sexuality.
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"We've never had a president who was as insensitive to the norms and taboos" of the military, Mr. Feaver said.
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Defiantly breaking the taboos of the day, these works show the repressed sexuality of children in an openly aggressive manner.
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The far right has scapegoated immigrants as dangerous and broken longstanding taboos about using language that echoes that of the Nazis.
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Amy Schumer has never shied away from tackling sexual taboos on her Comedy Central show or in films such as Trainwreck.
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The usual taboos against criticising the deep state that surrounds the unelected supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are flouted with abandon.
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Still, each kink is always explored with mutual consent among like-minded adults and a shared excitement for breaking sexual taboos.
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Learning more about when, how and why people swear offers insight into everything from the human brain to a society's taboos.
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The region's taboos and stereotypes are of particular interest to her, and she employs her camera's lens to make them explicit.
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"They are trying to break a lot of lines and taboos," said Shadi Amin, an Iranian women's and LGBT rights activist.
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Preventing infection rates from climbing in China will require shattering taboos and teaching young people about how to have safe sex.
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But more importantly, it walks all over the usual taboos around the very normal body-horror experience that pregnancy can be.
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Murder, rape, concentration camps, child abuse—all these taboos have lost some of their peremptory power in the past month alone.
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"To end taboos about sexuality in a country like Senegal it's going to take maybe more than one generation," Ndour says.
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But while Trump's willingness to blast taboos helped him in 2016, there is no guarantee it will work in the midterms.
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This gynophobic misogyny demands that women be surrounded with taboos and purgation rituals, along with severe restrictions on behavior and dress.
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Doughty wants Americans to know that there are other ways of doing death — that one culture's taboos are another's sacred practices.
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In general, anything related to a woman's decisions about reproduction and sexuality has been always surrounded by strong stigmas and taboos.
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"These are calculated breaches of taboos," Joerg Forbrig, a fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, told me last week.
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VICE: Why do you think blood, at least in modern life, makes so many so squeamish and carries such enormous taboos?
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But because there was this social revolution, I -- and other artists -- were able to bring lots of taboos into the open.
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While their parents may have been more closed off about discussing these taboos, the younger generation is helping to destigmatize them.
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It tells increasingly unsettled Western states that their taboos, conventions, courtesies and, above all, liberal institutions and mechanisms are under attack.
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Maine makes films that "represent women in realistic ways," but she wasn't always the straightforward writer and director confronting societal taboos.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) broke significant taboos around this issue in 215 with his pointed, strident criticism of the Netanyahu government.
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On the right, she argues, young men have latched onto a burgeoning counterculture that rejects social taboos around race and gender.
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Organized like an opera with multiple acts, the show pits the clothier's signature aesthetic against prevailing design philosophies and cultural taboos.
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It is simpler to squabble and delay than to break taboos, like writing down Greek debt or forging a unified asylum policy.
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Also, to let go of the taboos associated with periods because when you are on your period, people often say you're "down".
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You grew up in the South, so I assume you understood the cultural taboos around science in general and evolution in particular.
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"There are taboos that if you were to pray more you wouldn't have these eating disorders or mental-health issues," she says.
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Many women were applying for the role of an anchor, though cultural taboos almost ensured the role would go to a man.
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So how do you navigate the fact that so many of our desires are politically incorrect; how do you broach those taboos?
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Easily the highlight was writer Angela Nagle who cast the Trump era as a time for questioning both liberal and conservative taboos.
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She instead prioritized subverting social constructs and taboos, writing films that treated gender conventions as a social structure and then deconstructed them.
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Several other completely baffling myths and taboos still persist; they usually place the responsibility for a miscarriage on the shoulders of women.
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Our experiences with our bodies are blanketed by social stigmas and cultural taboos, often shared only with those we choose to bed.
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Schwabe presents his book as a collection of culinary taboos, but it's really the opposite: a celebration of what people will eat.
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In the name of tackling taboos that often surround discussing one's finances, here's a full breakdown of my summer of six weddings.
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The piece pays homage to humans' organizational skills, natural dominance, and ingenuity, but also warns against complete domination, and explores cultural taboos.
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"It's not enough that all of a sudden the taboos are temporarily falling," said Mariana Mazzucato, an economist at University College London.
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The Republican Party can't mount this argument in an effective way because to do so involves stepping over too many GOP taboos.
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The most rewarding writers, he said, are those who understand "that where there are taboos, there is an itch to violate them."
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But Beyond, which says it wants to break taboos about death, continues to push its advertising campaign online and around the city.
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The intention is confronting ourselves with our own fears, or our own preconceived notions or taboos, which we can also call prejudices.
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To many, the alliance violated one of the biggest taboos in German politics: that no mainstream party collaborate with the far right.
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He constantly flaunted taboos, particularly when it came to homosexuality, and was ahead of his time in his treatment of transgender characters.
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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Polish avant-garde director and playwright Tadeusz Kantor was drawn to the forbidden, to trampling on taboos.
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In the following millenniums, the sages expanded these prohibitions with a welter of interpretations intended to fortify the taboos against forbidden foods.
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It becomes a way of acting against social and cultural expectations — the act of infringing upon taboos becomes the source of need.
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With the demand for dermal filler set to rise among millennials, injectables may be one of the last beauty taboos to shatter.
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The multifaceted controversy touches on two of the more enduring taboos in American politics — frank discussion of racism and disparaging the electorate.
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In Beirut, gatherings devoted to sharing true stories are promoting tolerance and social cohesion, breaking taboos and allowing marginalised voices to be heard.
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Shattering taboos, he described the rape and how his father's insistence that "real men" know how to defend themselves left him feeling responsible.
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And as long as these taboos exist, and respectable mainstream conservatives defer to them, it will be hard — maybe impossible — to change course.
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"I don't think there's going to be any taboos with Donald Trump," said James Pethokoukis, a scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
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Speaking out with increasing regularity about the stresses they share with other parents, they are taking on long-standing taboos about seeking help.
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"There are so many taboos related to women," says Cruz, 44, who's mom to daughter Luna, 5, and son Leo, 8 this month.
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In the premiere episode, Ryan revealed that she suffered from depression and wanted to dispel the taboos about talking openly about mental illness.
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"Through her paintings she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality," Diego Rivera once said of his wife.
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In a new memoir, she confronts the drug's risks and taboos—including the psychotropic effects explored by famed opium eater Thomas de Quincey.
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National capitals can feel like different universes, with their own electoral and economic cycles, personalities, in-jokes, taboos, histories, myths and ideological constellations.
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The monstrous draws us in and gives us permission to delve into cultural truths and taboos that set off our fears and fantasies.
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Many of Graham's Instagram posts tackle taboos of body features that are often retouched in big photo shoots, from stretch marks to cellulite.
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It is a world in which, as Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany observed last week, the "taboos of civilization" are too easily broken.
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There's an exhilaration in successfully violating deeply held taboos, a profound sense of power and freedom, the rush that comes with occult knowledge.
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Réal contradicted two of society's biggest taboos—she was an unconventional (some would say bad) mother, and worked openly as a sex worker.
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"I Love You, America" marries a long-running interest in scatological humor and stomping on taboos with a new, more politically conscious voice.
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His stunts are designed to appeal to a warped sense of humor as much as they are to help batter down liberal taboos.
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To the extent that he knocked down the taboos of his day, it was to free up the creative powers of the individual.
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YouTuber Filthy Frank lives up to his name — he creates comedy that ignores taboos in order to shock (and delight) his loyal fans.
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You don't look at a gas station sign advertising sky-high gas prices and feel as if anyone's even attempting to shatter taboos.
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As old taboos were broken — I heard strong language regarding migrants in this traditionally liberal, tolerant town — new ones seemed to be emerging.
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"We are breaking taboos about immigration and multiculturalism and Canadians appreciate our frankness," he said by phone from Ontario, where he was campaigning.
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There are a number of things that are technically off-limits for new royals, but Markle hasn't had trouble breaking all those taboos.
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In that regard, Secretary Tillerson, Deputy National Security Advisor Dina Powell, and other members of the Trump administration deserve credit for breaking taboos.
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In her controversial book, "Killers of the Dream," she unflinchingly lay bare racist sensibilities, taboos and behavior — of her neighbors, family and herself.
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Trump may be the most politically incorrect man in America, but even he knows that there are some taboos you can't violate. ♦
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Bernie Sanders has played a leading role in much of this, continuing a trajectory of shattering taboos that he launched during his 2016 campaign.
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The cadence of the scripts, which are written in meter, slows down the spinning narratives, as they delve into gender iniquity and sexual taboos.
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Suddenly that willingness to break taboos is being taken as evidence that he is different from the political hacks in the capital city, Brasília.
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Kaitlyn: After Rachel and Corrine's dates tiptoed toward the twin taboos of the Bachelor franchise — race and money — I was in pretty good spirits.
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"Our company exists to combat outdated cultural taboos and the embarrassment that so many humans feel when it comes to their bodies," Macdonald says.
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He embraces ambiguity and cultural taboos in a way that many might find frustrating or uncomfortable; his films are also, well, deeply fucking weird.
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As usual, the magazine is filled with indiscriminate lampooning of all religions, sophomoric shots at various taboos, and sharp criticism of various political figures.
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The West, with its roots in the Enlightenment, remains the freest place in the world for scepticism about established dogmas and ill-founded taboos.
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And August 14, she smashed taboos about menstruation by openly admitting that her stomach hurt because she was on her period during the race.
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"What I experienced was exactly the same," the customer told me, wishing to stay anonymous due to the taboos surrounding drug use in Japan.
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Google's Undo Send feature has been saving people from embarrassing typos, mistakes, and other email taboos for years on the web version of Gmail.
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I stood there in that shitty, sticky bar amazed as this group of young men spoke passionately about one of our country's greatest taboos.
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"We make sure everyone washes their hands at the start," says an aid worker, hoping to combat Muslim taboos on eating with devil-worshippers.
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" As Keefe says, Trump's actions are "transfixing to watch" because they entail the "upending of norms, the defiance of taboos, the destabilization of institutions.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Looking for a podcast where Asian women chat about taboos, plus-sized women discuss dating, or Muslim feminists talk politics?
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That show of irreverence towards senior figures who have long commanded respect has broken taboos, setting these demonstrations apart from previous waves of dissent.
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But the good news is, there are plenty of women advocating for equal pay and breaking down the taboos associated with talking about money.
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"This ad is the most irresponsible way to address menstrual taboos," Dr. Stellah Wairimu Bosire, a Kenyan physician and gender equality activist, told Insider.
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If Emperor Akihito steps down, will Japan lose a check on the government's drive to rewrite the past, to discard its lessons and taboos?
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But taboos and superstitions are all too common in the world of the real-world fashion designers who inspired the character of Reynolds Woodcock.
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Here he talks about how it feels to be overweight in the professional kitchen, and all the discomforts and taboos that come with it.
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That show of irreverence toward senior figures who have long commanded respect has broken taboos, setting these demonstrations apart from previous waves of dissent.
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Related: Gift-giving taboos aren't as bad as you think Around the turn of the 20th century, toys were rarely marketed to different genders.
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Curses are versatile fictions, foundational to myth and literature, to the power of speech acts and religious taboos, even to national and ethnic identity.
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Lead single "Endless" is a rumination on one of life's greatest taboos: death; the legacy we leave behind, how there's a celebration in the afterlife.
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"The traditions, the taboos, the deterrences ... are all about constantly reiterating and saying we're not doing that, this is wrong, this is right," Sauer says.
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In a new sketch produced in partnership with digital entertainment company The Viral Fever (TVF), it tries to break down cultural taboos against dating apps.
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They discuss the cultural climate at the time, what taboos were being broken, and how this one sequence utterly changed the way movies were constructed.
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Using playfulness, vulnerability, and surreal pleasure, Donahue shows the double-crossed joys of motherhood, confronting the taboos associated with painting one's life as a mother.
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Ratajkowski has been very vocal about embracing her sexuality on social media and using Instagram has a platform to break down taboos and empower women.
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We established a free and happy space of no taboos and no judgment, where the pre-teens could learn about puberty, sex, relationships, and love.
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And with this book, I felt I wasn't going to let any taboos or anything stop me from writing the book I wanted to write.
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His show criticized the administration of Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsy, addressed social taboos and used humor to call out authorities for undemocratic practices.
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Activists have long pressured lawmakers for a law to punish those who force women to practice Chhaupadi, a ritual rooted in Hindu taboos about menstruation.
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They were kids who had grown up on the Internet, with few taboos about which musical traditions could be drawn upon to build rock songs.
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FEW Pakistanis have broken taboos as gleefully as Qandeel Baloch, a social-media star who used the internet to titillate and scandalise her fellow citizens.
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People can really try and smash taboos, and yet someone can stand up somewhere else and be booed offstage and have things thrown at them.
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Thinking about this exchange 14 months later, after what feels like a generation's worth of lines crossed and taboos shattered, her concern seems strangely prescient.
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This was significant because cultural taboos discourage open discussion of bacha bazi, said Wali Mohammad Kandiwal, author of a recent study on the new law.
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Harry's frank disclosures about his own torment helped to break down some of the current British taboos over discussion of mental health issues in public.
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The list of Orang Rimba taboos is long and includes soap, fried chicken and certain clothes like the Muslim prayer cap Mr. Tarip now wears.
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Spells as a trainee sniper and Sorbonne student precede her rise to fame, accomplished while barreling through three husbands, a doctorate and multiple sexual taboos.
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He attributes the change partly to the lifting of taboos around discussion of Judaism and the Holocaust — but also to growing interest in ancestral research.
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While the laws are rarely changed, the flagging public support makes enforcement of the rules increasingly complex, with many former taboos now tolerated by society.
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They feel a rare and comforting sense of moral certainty when they are purging an evil person who has violated one of their sacred taboos.
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But about half are Thai, and they have pushed the limits of what is taboo in a country many assume is mostly free of taboos.
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Mr. Höcke, who according to a recent German court ruling can legally be referred to as a fascist, is a master of breaking verbal taboos.
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Taboos about sex, fears about desire, and squeamishness about discussing our bodies have led to an abundance of whispers about sex and everything that surrounds it.
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"Too often the limits of freedom of speech are being tested very calculatedly, and taboos are being broken and carelessly employed as political instruments," she said.
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As it grew, numerous women took a picture of themselves holding a chart of a sanitary napkin with the words #HappyToBleed, to protest against menstrual taboos.
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Roderich Kiesewetter, a foreign-policy expert in the Christian Democratic Union, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, chimed in that there should be no "thought taboos".
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The debate between the laws and "the spirit" of the game is not unique to tennis, with a number of other sports having their own taboos.
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Even though we in the US and UK might think we're really advanced and have all this positive period walk, we have taboos; they're just different.
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"It is a big challenge because there are so many issues: from child marriage to child trafficking to culture issues and taboos and poverty," she said.
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He recommends that economists spend more time thinking about such taboos, but mostly because they are a constraint on the use of markets in new contexts.
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So, yes, intelligent young people are interested in anal sex — and they're working to break the kind of taboos that make people think they shouldn't be.
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Sploshers often prefer to do this clothed, as "ruining" a nice set of shoes or outfit intensifies the sense of abandon and freedom from social taboos.
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"While the information, supplies, support, and breaking of taboos is essential, the aspect that frequently gets overlooked or under-addressed is that of toilets," Sommer says.
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Taboos on nuclear tests and chemical weapons usage were under threat, he added, while talk of tactical nuclear weapons was leading in an extremely dangerous direction.
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"Porn's job has always been to show what is taboo, but we've kind of gotten to the point where we've run out of taboos," Shibari says.
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Eric Yuan helped shatter one of the weirdest corporate taboos on Thursday, becoming one of the first Chinese CEO of a major U.S. publicly-listed corporation.
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As the night went on, I realized every aspect of the evening allowed butt-related taboos to be front and center, destigmatizing them as a result.
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One time, I was on a panel discussion where we talked about different taboos, and someone pointed at me and said that I was a taboo.
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Lowbrow references, subversions of classic American culture and challenges to societal taboos are all present in his work, alongside a focus on race, gender and power.
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And indeed many of the "Winesburg" stories, in violation of the prevailing literary taboos, openly explored the destructive effects of stifled desire, sexual repression and perversion.
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One of the most surprising is Amal, a woman who breaks all taboos to leave her family and village to live on her own in Cairo.
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In Nanterre, it provided an illuminating glimpse of the artistic mood in 1968 — and a reminder that some taboos haven't changed much in half a century.
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It seems reasonable to include in such taboos proclamations in public settings stating that one race, nationality, religion, sex or orientation is superior to all others.
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His adultery is painful for Minnie and their children, and represents an unacceptable transgression of racial and sexual taboos to the sheriff and other white people.
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Those taboos are being challenged in states including Maharashtra, where the government late last year ordered all public schools to begin teaching the truth about periods.
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The age-play and experimenting with taboos are wonderful and I encourage you to continue to explore your sexuality with people who make you feel safe.
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Mr. Trump has said so many outrageous things, has broken so many taboos and has insulted so many people that his latest outbursts no longer shock.
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Interpreters, quickly trained, must try their best to understand another language, and fill in the gaps left by cultural differences—including taboos about what victims can say.
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Darnell agrees that the taboos surrounding women's sexual pleasure can inhibit open discussion of orgasmic dysfunction in women and formal research into how women experience their bodies.
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In keeping with the far-right's message board tradition, the posts appear intended as ironic commentary or as efforts to break PC taboos by shocking and offending.
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A country where organised Christianity was once exceptionally well entrenched is now, it seems, abandoning the beliefs, practices and taboos mandated by that religion with unusual speed.
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When we decided to start tackling one of the last taboos facing modern women, our ultimate goal was to help our community take control of their finances.
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There's a certain thrill in violating taboos and operating outside of normal social boundaries, and games like this give us permission to cross those boundaries without guilt.
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A measure of how far all this touches some of the taboos about France's eye-popping 3,500-page labour code was the reaction of certain union leaders.
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Vampire clubs like Fangtasia, the black and red extravaganza of kitsch owned by Eric and Pam are quirky attractions for humans who want to transgress sexual taboos.
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Hannah, who was depressed about her condition for years, later put on a brave face and campaigned to raise awareness about it and to break down taboos.
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So by offering new toilets and access to products, we gain permission to talk to girls, boys, parents, teachers and the community about menstruation, stigma and taboos.
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"I make art about the double standards, taboos and cultural expectations that govern the lives and bodies of women," she wrote in a biography on her website.
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"It is a big challenge because there are so many issues: from child marriage to child trafficking to culture issues and taboos and poverty," she tells me.
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The dictionary of people who are moving beyond sectarian taboos; the dictionary made possible when religion is separated from politics; the dictionary of people throwing off fear.
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But one reason that Trumpism is so transfixing to watch is that it is about the upending of norms, the defiance of taboos, the destabilization of institutions.
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If we have to dig into what they did wrong according to today's values, let's not forget all the risks they took and the taboos they broke.
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They remind us that cocktails give us a place on which to project some of our more indecorous desires and, by liquid proxy, playfully indulge in taboos.
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She posed for a series of covers for Elle Australia with her son, and appeared on a variety of talk shows to discuss taboos surrounding the topic.
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China has long dynastic histories, and they took great records—they didn't have the taboos that we have, so they weren't secretive about writing this stuff down.
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Here's What Happened When an Artist Had Total Control Tattoos Transform into Moving Images with Ink Mapping A South Korean Artist Is Breaking Taboos with Flower Tattoos
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Hemmed in during their youth by racial and sexual taboos, and Confederate and Klan ghosts, the Lumpkins kept their secrets close and turned out to the world.
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"In our African culture there are taboos ... we say 'this child is cursed', we will say there is witchcraft, that this child is irrecoverable," she told Reuters.
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The show's director, Ben Taylor, said it was this "initial breaking down of taboos" that was most valuable, as well as the open discussion of sex scenes.
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By the time Mr. Meglin and Mr. Ficarra became Mad's editors, taboos had been broken and Mad's audience had eroded as the alternatives to its satire multiplied.
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Yet it is by breaking taboos that Britain's royal family has remained not only entertaining, but also relevant to all the many people who ardently follow them.
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Often, the President has a knack for tackling taboos about America's global posture and the international system that a more traditional commander-in-chief might have avoided.
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It breaks through taboos or firewalls around the privacy of what happens in a marriage, what happens between a couple, what happens behind closed doors of therapy.
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Some add that any campus official who disputes this dogma, or who inadvertently violates the ever-expanding catalogue of taboos, should be hounded out of their job.
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Protestors are increasingly taking up former political taboos, such as praising the former monarchy and royal family, while also targeting symbols of the regime's ideology and leadership.
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"Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS" tackles many taboos that have hampered cleareyed discussion of Islamist extremism in general and ISIS in particular.
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Pads are not easily available in many rural parts of the country, but taboos around menstruation mean that women are ashamed to openly wash and dry cloth.
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The Marlon Riggses of the world — black gay men; black gay men with AIDS (Riggs died in 1994, at 37) — embodied this disjunction of the era's taboos.
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"There is a lot of guessing about what happened, but people recognize that there are some pretty major taboos that have been broken with this," said Minzer.
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That is my worry, because the last taboos that I think remain particularly in British and American English are the ones that are to do with othering people.
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But even a photo op can erode hard-won taboos against military involvement in politics, said Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Verge spoke to George about the science of blood, the history of an important and underappreciated hematologist, the harm of menstrual taboos, and whether anything is changing.
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Ryan Murphy has an established reputation as a "provocateur," the word we use for (mostly) men who push boundaries when it comes to sex, gore, and other taboos.
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WATCH THIS: Andrew Zimmern Gives Us a Taste of His World Part of his philosophy includes expanding upon the foods we find socially acceptable — and breaking past taboos.
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Even in urban centers like Delhi, taboos around menstruation prevent women from talking about problems and then trying to hide anything related to their period, including sanitary pads.
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Nontraditional set ups like consensual non-monogamy, plural relationships, and, as we'll recall from an earlier season, sex tapes, are all all framed as shocking taboos on LHHATL.
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A child of the 1920s, she sets off into young adulthood with gusto, busting taboos by studying for a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Chicago.
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A Massachusetts man broke through many layers of taboos to speak openly about his penis transplant, the first in the U.S. and the second successful one on record.
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To defeat our scientific phobias and taboos will require understanding how the findings of science and their consequences fit into the cultural makeup of both liberals and conservatives.
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Richard Neville, who challenged societal taboos and obscenity standards as a founder of the satirical countercultural magazine Oz in the 21979s, died on Sunday in Byron Bay, Australia.
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When they learn to sign with me — and there are still too few who really learn — they must overcome these cultural taboos about excessive movement, pointing and gesture.
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Stones songs like those have outlasted the taboos they once triggered; familiarity has replaced shock as the band's fans have grown from their youth to parent- and grandparenthood.
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Breaking taboos Since it was founded in 2015, the California-based nonprofit has reached about 15,000 girls ages of 11 and 16 in Kenya, according to its website.
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In these gatherings, people are given a chance to break cultural taboos; they would play music, dance and break the biggest taboo, hanging out with the opposite gender.
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The exception is 1973's Immoral Tales, an anthology film that broaches such taboos as defloration, incest, and sacrilege, that is actually a very random pick for Netflix.
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Pestering your hookup about an ETA, asking for a bargain, and canceling an order-last minute are obvious taboos—but not every wrong move is that clear cut.
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Related: A South Korean Artist is Breaking Taboos with Flower Tattoos 16,000 Flowers Become a Living Sculpture See Flowers in a New Light in this Hallucinatory Photo Series
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The general point about food taboos is that they are concerned precisely with what is unclean, and what is unclean is polluting whether you know it or not.
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In a June 2018 article about comedy and taboos in the blog Philadelphian Neighborhoods, Gillis defended Louis C.K., who has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women.
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Sleeping on the job is one of those workplace taboos — like leaving your desk for lunch or taking an afternoon walk — that we're taught to look down on.
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In Britain and America students shout down speakers they deem racist or transphobic, and Twitter mobs demand the sacking of anyone who violates an expanding list of taboos.
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But I would trust someone who has to juggle the different needs, moods and taboos of multiple billionaire donors over a billionaire who is accountable only to himself.
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As the host of a popular late-night radio show, Sharma, 33, takes questions from across the country about consent, queerness, safe sex, sexual taboos, and social mores.
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Activists say dropout rates rise when girls are co-opted into household chores, pushed into early marriage or held back by discrimination and deep-seated taboos over periods.
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It's basically a belief that the various societal norms and taboos — around race or culture or gender — are bullshit and that they're poking holes in all of it.
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Even the most open and tolerant societies have boundaries and fringes, ideas that are not tolerated in mainstream political discourse, taboos that, once broken, result in serious consequences.
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Having discovered that I'm completely normal, I was filled with a desire to smash taboos and to help people to feel at ease when talking about sex OFF camera.
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Death taboos vary wildly from culture to culture, as do imaginings of the afterlife, according to religious studies scholar Erik Davis, author of Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia.
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Many of those immigrants arrive with strong taboos against drinking, premarital sex and smoking—at least among girls—and think that only paupers send their children out to work.
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Taboos that persisted until a generation ago are now in the past, thanks to a history-making, 500-pound behemoth that is as human as the rest of us.
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But taboos about opioid use, restrictions on prescriptions and import barriers are still in place across much of Africa, says Barbara Goedde at the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
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With shows like Transparent, Black-ish, and Master of None, the field is experimenting with form and genre, and not shying away from societal taboos or new cultural norms.
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Riedelsdorf is a German who has thrown in his lot with a nationalist and xenophobic party that, breaking taboos, has just taken almost 100 seats in the German Parliament.
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The post-prison world he walked into was a new one, awash with hippies who openly rejected social norms and formed idyllic enclaves ostensibly free of restrictions and taboos.
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The Semaq Beri value odors as food-locating resources but also as important pieces of life that can indicate a person's identity and guide taboos and rules for behavior.
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"There seemed to be this movement of artists who refused to be labeled by nationality or gender, who challenged social and sexual taboos with their work," said Mr. Williams.
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The phallus — whose depiction in Western art has been one of the most persistent taboos since the end of the Classical era — is a ubiquitous form in her work.
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And our laws and cultural taboos have not prevented the Alternative party from gaining a small but steady 8 percent of voters ahead of the national election in September.
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"In my experience, the taboos between a man and a mother-in-law are a lot stronger than between a woman and her mother-in-law," Professor Bowern said.
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Some in the CSU see robust language as an effective way of challenging the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has shown its willingness to break rhetorical taboos.
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It's possible to use up all the animals or plants in an area and make it uninhabitable, and because of that players are developing taboos around certain crops and animals.
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To Trump, winning retroactively justifies everything that came before, and the fact that his win was so unexpected will give him confidence that future taboos can be shattered without cost.
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His first big point is that there is a puzzle, in monotheistic history, about the fate of the Hebrew Christians, the followers of Jesus who observed Jewish customs and taboos.
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While being interviewed about her new single, the singer-songwriter was asked why she chose to include these emotional and somewhat taboos words at the beginning of the music video.
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While the AfD is not a Nazi party, its candidates have smashed many of the taboos of German politics established as the country rebuilt its democracy after Adolf Hitler's defeat.
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Just by watching this series, viewers will get drawn into a larger debate about teenage life, responsible storytelling, and how best to address the trauma and taboos around teen suicide.
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Moreover, cultural taboos can mean that it's not easy to attract new workers into the industry, which means that higher wages in the sector also get passed along to consumers.
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In Syria, a society where taboos about women riding bikes remain strong, "there's a belief bicycle seats deflower women, and virginity is a big deal", said the 24-year-old.
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In a speech on mental health this week, Theresa May emphasized that her priority is to prevent mental health problems, and pledged to remove taboos and barriers to accessing help.
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But hey, it's standard, vanilla sex: a widely accepted Thing People Do. So even if you're unsure of yourself, at least there are no taboos to overcome before diving in.
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While Young M.A's music is not explicitly political, being an outspoken lesbian in the hip-hop industry -- a topic that she often addresses in her lyrics -- has broken some taboos.
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These paintings were commissioned in an effort to communicate the constraints and taboos of racial mixing both to those in the colonies and also to those on the Iberian Peninsula.
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In recent weeks, as France debated the burkini, Turkey again chipped away at old taboos, allowing female police officers, for the first time, to wear head scarves on the job.
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For all the talk about all the taboos and rules Trump has broken during his election and transition process, this breach by the Obama team would be the most serious.
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While open racism against blacks remains among the most powerful taboos in American politics, Americans feel more free expressing worries about illegal immigrants and dislike of Islam, survey research shows.
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Going out on the road, where Trump shatters taboos and dodges accountability for his wild misrepresentations, offers him more than the chance to draw energy from those who love him.
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By telling our stories and sharing our experiences, women are tackling taboos --- and pushing back on a standard of perfect that's harmful to our health, our happiness and our success.
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But those taboos are there for a reason: We don't want people explicitly advocating for the racial inferiority of black people, or the idea that women exist to serve men.
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After forty years of growing up depressed in a militarized society, we [artists] needed to speak up and break taboos, constructs and hollow icons like the President Bashar Al-Assad.
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Orban has often challenged Western liberal taboos and after winning a 2018 election, his third in a row, flagged major changes ahead, claiming a "mandate to build a new era".
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Mel B launched "The Truth Flirts," a podcast dedicated to breaking down sexual taboos and have an open conversation about sex, in partnership with dating app Badoo in October 2019.
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Societal taboos as well as the lack of clean water, soap and sanitary products, mean that many women and girls are unable to manage their vaginal bleeding in sanitary conditions.
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The post-prison world that Manson walked into was a new one, awash with hippies who openly rejected social norms and formed idyllic enclaves ostensibly free of restrictions and taboos.
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A famous line: Why it matters: By skillfully skewering religion, ethnic groups, celebrities and other targets while pushing the bounds of decency, "South Park" has largely obliterated TV's last remaining taboos.
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On the one hand, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has shown himself willing to "break certain taboos" that have made it easier now for Israel to work with Saudi Arabia.
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I like to take the piss out of topics that either take themselves too seriously, or are taboos that are so ridiculous or dated that they deserve to be laughed at.
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Subject to a Jordanian campaign to ban them across the Arab world, Mashrou Leila, a Lebanese indy band whose lyrics flout sexual and political taboos, launched its latest album in London.
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Sim's work has stretched from Asia to Africa and was the inspiration behind the United Nations' 1003 declaration of a "World Toilet Day", in a push to break taboos around toilets.
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In the Gulf state of Oman, for example, the Trump administration has touted a recent, historic visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a sign that old taboos are eroding.
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Tagame is not afraid of touchy subjects and taboos, writing stories featuring Nazi prisoners, bestiality, incest, scat, permanent body modification and Japanese WWII soldiers captured and tortured by Chinese liberation groups.
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Hungry for stories that reflected her experiences as a woman from a traditional Indian family, Sangeeta Pillai decided to start her own podcast to delve into taboos, like sexuality and menopause.
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"The broken taboos, the extent of political conflict, the aggression that we've seen from Trump, this can widen the scope of what becomes thinkable in our own political culture," Schwarzer said.
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Even before that, the President had trashed taboos, saying at the start of his campaign that McCain, who was tortured in Vietnam, was not a war hero because he was captured.
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The most remarkable thing about last Sunday's debate was Anderson Cooper having to school a 70-year-old man on workplace taboos that most of us learn on our first job.
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Public opinion in India's biggest cities has been in favor of scrapping the law, but there remains strong taboos around gay sex in conservative, rural areas, and opposition from religious groups.
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With music that tackles homophobia and various social taboos, Mashrou' Leila are one of a wave of rebellious Middle Eastern bands formed out of the political upheaval of the Arab Spring.
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The posts themselves appear to be an integral part of her practice, breaking down taboos around openly discussing women's reproductive health and building a supportive community of fellow people with endometriosis.
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Lawrence Millman: I've been traveling to and studying the Arctic for 40 years, and I've done a lot of ethnographic work—collecting stories, tales, myths, superstitions, and taboos from Inuit elders.
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That this was the case at a time when so many doors were closed to women, and so many taboos enforced upon them, makes her that much more remarkable, and inspiring.
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That this was the case at a time when so many doors were closed to women, and so many taboos enforced upon them, makes her that much more remarkable, and inspiring.
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Every breakfast begins with an icebreaker — a game of sex and anatomy trivia to loosen up language around taboos — and then students break into smaller groups to air out personal confusions.
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Because of strong social and religious taboos against homosexuality in much of Indonesia, gatherings of gays often take place away from the public eye, like in saunas or at underground parties.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that Grace and Frankie takes place in a region where the residents make taboos out of totally normal activities like getting wrinkles or eating carbs.
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My mother marched for abortion rights in the 1970s, and my father was a leader in the 1968 student movement in Berlin that forced open the taboos about Germany's Nazi past.
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From Indonesia to Belarus and Kenya, the United Nations is partnering with young people, local communities, schools, governments, influencers and thought leaders to tackle taboos around menstruation and produce innovative solutions.
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Like Amoruso, Miki Agrawal, Thinx's self-styled "She-E-O," has made a name for herself as an alternative feminist icon, an innovator lauded for her refreshing ability to break sexist taboos.
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"Girls often turn to their mothers and teachers for support, but if they lack the confidence and information themselves, they may instead perpetuate taboos," said Mahon, who is WaterAid's regional program manager.
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But what makes this song great is that it's so damn good, slipping comfortably into the grand tradition of pop stars using their music to expand our collective imagination about sexual taboos.
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ANNE MCELVOY asks Ricky Gervais, an award-winning stand-up comedian and creator of "The Office", whether there are any taboos left in comedy and if it matters when people are offended.
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"A number of words that we used to have always in G7 and G303 summit communiques became kind of taboos," a European official said on Saturday in the midst of the negotiations.
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As previously mentioned, it's illegal to be gay in Pakistan, as well as India, Iran, and Afghanistan to name a few, and social taboos can be even more pervasive than the laws.
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The 350-page report, based on testimony from 1,690 people, called for an end to taboos around discussing abuse, so people who had been failed as children should not suffer in adulthood.
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Swimsuitsforall's campaigns consistently challenge viewers to broaden their conception of beauty outside of the narrow definition society has provided us with, and we can't wait to see what taboos they breakdown next.
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The ad is part of Bodyform's new #bloodnormal campaign, which aims to bring "blood out of the dark, onto our screens and into the conversation" in a bid to end period taboos.
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"As long as I stay home during clashes and don't violate laws and protest-taboos... I will be safe," said Jane Chen, an undergraduate business student from the mainland at City University.
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Orban has successfully challenged western liberal taboos, winning the 2018 election with a strong anti-immigration campaign and by focusing on the importance of national pride and unity, and a "strong Hungary".
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"A number of words that we used to have always in G7 and G303 summit communiques became kind of taboos," a European official said on Saturday in the midst of the negotiations.
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Teenagers across Africa urgently need more information about sex to combat soaring rates of HIV and unwanted pregnancies, experts say, as widespread taboos and cultural conservatism prevent discussions in schools and homes.
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Agrawal, who also founded Thinx, a line of underwear designed for people menstruating, said she sees Tushy, her bidet brand, as an extension of her mission to talk abut feminine hygiene taboos.
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From distributing hygiene kits to girls affected by disasters to constructing child-friendly toilets in schools across Asia and Africa, Plan International is working with communities to break the taboos surrounding menstruation.
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I think the takeaway I found from writing Lesbian Surrender is that you can create taboos anywhere, but that for sex to be hot, it needs to be a little bit transgressive.
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Basket and Ink, loincloth-clad women of the Stone Age, are sitting around the cave feeling wistful for a simpler time — before clothing, community and social taboos came along and ruined everything.
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Among those women who will not be celebrating on the streets this Sunday are the pioneers who broke social and legal taboos decades ago with their protests demanding the right to drive.
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What Ms. Dunn lacks in financial literacy she makes up for in charm and candor, and she coaxes her guests into trampling the taboos around money until they get to something real.
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Run by a foundation, it has a strong reputation of independent reporting, and its reporters and columnists have been in prison many times over the years for breaking government or military taboos.
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It is not illegal for employees to talk to one another about how much they are paid, though companies have retaliated against employees who do so, and cultural taboos inhibit such conversations.
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Meanwhile, by talking about immigrants, terrorism, Islamism, colonization and the euro in the stark terms that she favors, Ms. Le Pen has little by little lifted taboos and normalized some scandalous propositions.
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Only 12% of the 355 million Indian women in the reproductive age group use sanitary napkins, partly because they are not affordable or or inaccessible due to the social taboos surrounding menstruation.
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In many ways, the leaders, each prone to tough talk, reviling Iran and a willingness to embrace near demagogic campaign tactics and to infringe on campaign taboos over race, are political soulmates.
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He allegedly used it as a tool to break down barriers that he might have otherwise faced, like taboos against adult men sleeping in the same bed as 7-year-old children.
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But it's with a strange pleasure that the reader will realize that so many of the taboos these writers hope to shatter — about the ambivalence of motherhood, for example — are, by now, familiar.
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Through the protagonist Sneha Mathur, viewers encounter common, but rarely challenged social practices and taboos such as sex-selective abortions and menstruation - all based on real life cases from across largely conservative India.
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Their stories feel like the product of a writerly mind that is inclined emotionally toward violence and toward the breaking of sexual taboos, but is revolted intellectually and morally by the very idea.
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We have countless preconceptions about how a death has to be handled, countless taboos around discussing it openly, and we place a profound degree of trust in those that help us handle it.
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The Belle Époque in Paris, where this is set, is a very interesting time because people were breaking taboos left and right, and there was a big sense of sexual exploration, and stuff.
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MEXICO CITY — The president of Mexico said Tuesday that he was submitting a proposal to Congress to legalize same-sex marriage, as Mexico presses forward with breaking long-held taboos in Latin America.
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Ernst Nolte, a German revisionist historian who broke academic taboos by equating Nazism with Bolshevism and who was denounced as an apologist for Hitler and even the Holocaust, died on Thursday in Berlin.
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The subculture of UFO enthusiasts and researchers seems to be pushing back hard against the stereotypes and taboos established by a mainstream culture that once wrote them off as crazy or conspiracy theorists.
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What's incredible is to see Ms. Daniels embody so many human extremes — so much boldness, so many flaws, and so many taboos broken — and to see her story nonetheless believed and acted upon.
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Christopher Kane is not a designer who shies away from investigating taboos in his work, finding inspiration in the 1972 sex manual "The Joy of Sex" and others' private fetishes in previous collections.
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For Trump, the presidency seems as much about orchestrating strife in the center of a whirlwind as he tilts at national taboos as it is the steady accumulation of political and global victories.
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Sanders also shattered taboos on Israel, not so much by breaking brand new policy ground — the support for a two-state solution, the notion that Israel has a right to defend itself, etc.
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Despite its 1970s airdate, and live studio audience, "All in the Family" was always ready to let things get dramatic, and also thrived on tackling social issues that were usually taboos on sitcoms.
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At adult clip site ManyVids, CEO Sed Dehan and CTO Anthony Moretti say it's a matter of enabling content creators to become successful, and giving them the freedom to push boundaries and break taboos.
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Though I had to learn to curb my enthusiasm and lose the weight healthfully, I did so in a way that allowed me to keep my love of food – nothing off limits, no taboos.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Touching Queen Elizabeth has long been considered one of the greatest taboos surrounding the British monarch, one of the unwritten rules about how people are expected to behave around the royal family.
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"I have said in the past that I find humor in breaking taboos and laughing at things that people tell me are forbidden to joke about," Yiannopoulos wrote in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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The series also looks at teen sexuality to help adolescents to better understand the changes their bodies are undergoing and dispels social taboos that dictate that menstruation is dirty and that masturbation is unnatural.
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In October a board that manages hundreds of Hindu temples in the southern state of Kerala for the first time broke one of the last ancient taboos, inducting six Dalits to serve as priests.
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While rallies are critical in terms of spreading a message, the type of substantive change the scientific community seeks — and our country needs — will only be realized when scientists overcome outmoded taboos and evolve.
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There are things that are inappropriate to say in public, and things that are inappropriate to say at all, and social sanction — shaming — is the first line of defense for keeping those taboos intact.
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"Though there have been a few start-ups in the sexuality realm that have been funded, this category, while it has huge potential, is largely ignored by VC's because of the taboos," said Murphy.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deaths from cervical cancer will double in the Middle East and North Africa by 2035 unless conservative nations vaccinate young women and tackle sexual taboos, a study said on Wednesday.
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In "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life", a history of the subject, Bill Brewster imagines night falling on prehistoric savannahs, where early man "abandoned the taboos of waking life" and "joined the gods".
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The idea of I.V.P.'s curriculum is not, necessarily, to train women from developing countries in the mores of Western Europe but to expose students to the oddities and taboos of one another's nations.
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But this minor episode from the world of 1980s German media might have new relevance in America today, where taboos both rhetorical and actual are falling as fast as Donald Trump can invoke them.
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But in the modern era, political scientists like Robert D. Putnam have built on Freud's earlier rudimentary analysis to develop the idea that taboos—on incest, say—help people to exercise everyday moral judgement.
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He may do the same following the midterms in order to profit a while longer from his reputation as a bruiser who is not bang afraid to break taboos and bash the 'established order'.
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The Ia haven't shared much about their personal habits (there seem to be some taboos involved), but after a dozen or so meetings Jim drank a small glass of water in front of him.
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We bartenders live by specific and unwritten codes of behavior, and we often (somewhat) unfairly expect you, our beloved patrons, to navigate these codes and taboos without us having to explain them to you.
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"What the F" delivers on the surprise promised by its title, as what seems like a book about language taboos turns out to be a cognitive scientist's sneaky — charming, consistently engrossing — introduction to linguistics.
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It was a time in which the erosion of moral taboos in the swinging '60s and the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the Cold War combined to produce a steady supply of dramatic trials.
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Anything that portrays the sugar community as a niche cultural curiosity with an entire lexicon of inscrutable customs, taboos, and salutations, helps the company's case that sugar dating is fundamentally detached from sex work.
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In this way, I'm trying to weave a net of questions about ethics and morality and reveal a staggering series of social triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have been invisible until now.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Taboos around vaginal bleeding in developing countries are putting the lives of women and girls at risk, and the lack of sanitation is making it worse, a report has found.
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Bajpayee, who played a gay professor in 2016 drama "Aligarh", said public debate about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues was key to tackle taboos in India, where gay sex is still illegal.
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Those taboos are fading, but even now there is heated debate over whether Democratic candidates who identify as socialists (or democratic socialists or social democrats, etc.) risk alienating voters outside certain deep blue regions.
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" Even while enslaved on Sapelo, wrote historian Michael Gomez of New York University, Muhammad and his family "practiced daily prayer rituals using beads and mats, observed dietary taboos, and exhibited other behaviors consistent with Islam.
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She broke taboos by speaking publicly about her bulimia, depression, and how Charles's affair shattered her—which allowed everyone in England and around the world to feel a little less shame over being human, too.
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Even among families who admit to prejudices such as refusing to let Dalits into their homes, or to use the same utensils, it is likely that the number of such taboos has diminished over time.
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The anthology confronts taboos, such as Shaista Aziz's hard-hitting essay on "honor" killings in Pakistan, including that of Qandeel Baloch, who was strangled by her brother in 2016 for her risqué social media posts.
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Terium, who swapped his job as RWE CEO for that at Innogy after the latter's successful carve-out last year, said there would be no taboos with regard as to how that might be achieved.
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I and the mostly great writers in charge of crafting the show every week never forgot that we needed to make people laugh, but the struggle to survive, and to break taboos, was equally important.
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The rapid political evolution on marijuana legalization mirrors the speed with which public opinion changed on lotteries and same-sex marriage in some respects, as societal taboos fell away and polls showed voters accepted change.
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We can see the ways social values are constructed through legacy on Monday as the sun harmonizes with Pluto, the planet of taboos, at 11:04 PM, allowing secrets to be visible in plain sight.
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Stop focusing, they told jittery allies, on the sound bites from the White House Cabinet Room earlier this week when Mr. Trump appeared to embrace longstanding conservative taboos like gun confiscation and comprehensive background checks.
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Cave has addressed one of the last taboos in art and in life, not just by so candidly speaking about the effects of trauma but in the way he has presented it to an audience.
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This was a very specific type of rebellion, limited to white Americans who could view the new taboos against racist epithets not as a crucial step toward basic human rights but as oppressive new norms.
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Many organizations have focused on Chhaupadi's negative effects on women's health and menstrual hygiene; there now needs to be greater emphasis on the social issues and cultural taboos that fuel these practices, the study said.
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New Delhi (CNN)Slated as the world's first feature film about menstruation, the trailblazing Bollywood movie "Pad Man" opens globally Friday with an eye toward breaking taboos around a subject rarely discussed publicly in India.
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Last month, Fortum and Uniper said they would make a new effort to explore areas of cooperation and that there would be no taboos in discussions, a comment that raised hopes for a full takeover.
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By acknowledging the role clothes play in her own life and psyche, she is contravening one of the last taboos: If women want to be taken seriously, they are not supposed to take fashion seriously.
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One of our readers, Nikita Azad, wrote an open letter on Youth Ki Awaaz directed toward the head about how he was encouraging menstrual taboos and how women have suffered for centuries because of them.
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Bassema's struggle to give her cousin a dignified burial shows how fraught the issue of suicide is for US Muslims, as old taboos bump up against calls for new ways to approach suicide prevention and response.
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MONEY DIARIES MANIA Our readers were rabid about our Money Diaries column, with 7MM unique visitors in 2018 joining our conversation about how real women spend their cash — one of the most pervasive taboos for women.
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Double that, and you end up with a dull exhale of a movie, one that wants to provoke the audience by sticking its fingers in social taboos while simultaneously being too timid to do just that.
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A study from Pew Research Center found that since 2013, use of dating sites and apps has tripled among young adults, proving that the taboos once attached to online dating are a thing of the past.
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She felt like she didn't fit in academia, having been a goth/metalhead hybrid since the 9th grade who'd always been "interested in explicit content and all forms of visual terrorism," including taboos and the macabre.
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After all, in South Carolina, Trump shattered GOP taboos by accusing the last Republican President, George W. Bush, of lying to the public about the Iraq War and failing to prevent the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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To many readers, Watsa is that person –who listens to their deepest, darkest problems without judging; and providing the answers that come without the baggage of all the taboos that still surround sexual behavior in India.
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Though the new steps proposed are generally seen as modest, one diplomat said the proposed plan broke taboos that have held back European defense cooperation since the French parliament rejected a first attempt in the 1950s.
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"Porn memes" such as More's, which combine explicit content with everyday situations or well-known news stories, tap into a tradition of subverting social norms and questioning taboos which has long been embedded within gay culture.
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While no primer on NYC nightlife could ever be complete, VICE staff writer Allie Conti and I did our best to answer questions about cheap booze, hard-hitting techno, and drugs that are considered social taboos.
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In his years as prime minister, Mr. Erdogan was seen as an ally of the Kurds, breaking taboos to advance Kurdish rights and vowing to drink "hemlock poison" if it would help end the Kurdish conflict.
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And you could make it happen in exchange for a relatively small amount of money in the grand scheme of things if regional leaders are willing to work together for a change and break some taboos.
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The 2015 nuclear deal, negotiated under the Obama administration, broke many taboos when it came to U.S.-Iranian contact, but a Tehran visit from then-Secretary of State John Kerry was never truly in the cards.
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Virgo Pluto, lord of the underworld and planet of taboos, ended its retrograde last weekend, but being a slow-moving outer planet, the effects of its direction change can be felt into this week as well.
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On a weekend that shattered most remaining taboos of American foreign policy, Trump stepped into North Korea alongside Kim and proclaimed it a "great honor" to stand alongside one of the cruelest tyrants of the current age.
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Taboos are one of the most popular themes in our sexual fantasies and most men, regardless of sexual orientation, have occasional fantasies about "forbidden fruit," or people that our culture or society considers to be off-limits.
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This newfound accessibility for consumers and businesses is erasing past taboos and, in return, is allowing people to have more fun, and that's driving more vice companies to launch, grow, and get noticed by the investor community.
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It's also likely, Leone said, that we've shifted our conversations about crabs online because they particularly wig us out: They're creepy-crawlies on our bodies tied to sex—a ton of taboos all rolled up in one.
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A pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by targeting Iran's hardline elite, from the conservative judiciary to the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
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And unlike Saudi literalism, Qatar's serene Museum of Islamic Art portrays Islam in all its manifold forms: its current exhibition, "Qajar Women", breaks three conservative Sunni taboos, portraying the unveiled female figure, Iranian culture and enlightened Shias.
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Millions of Americans feel they can't say what they think, or even entertain views outside the boundaries laid down by elites, and so are drawn to the guy who rails against taboos and says what he believes.
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A pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer by nature, Rouhani nevertheless fired up the pro-reform camp with speeches that broke taboos by targeting Iran's hardline elite, from the conservative judiciary to the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
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Japan has only recently begun to disregard longstanding taboos on discussing mental illness, and experts say the sort of mental health programs widely available to students at universities in the United States and elsewhere remain relatively rare.
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In his excitement, Mr. Wesa cared little about cultural taboos and what is socially acceptable in giving his answer: "I told him I would even name it after his mother — whatever it takes to get the books."
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Confined indoors for seven days and banned from using salt in food, women and girls often face harsh social taboos about menstruation, which excludes them from activities,such as cooking or praying — and even going to school.
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For the world economy, the current crisis looks set to be deeper but shorter than the financial crisis of 12 years ago, while rescue efforts may need to be bigger, faster and break even more policy taboos.
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López-Claros and Nakhjavani set out to prove the equation in their title by examining the fiscal ramifications of social phenomena like "son preference," domestic violence, workforce gender imbalance, job segregation, cultural taboos, civil rights and education.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victoria has become the first Australian state to provide free sanitary products in schools, prompting calls from women's rights advocates on Thursday for a nationwide drive to end widespread taboos around menstruation.
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Unafraid to tackle societal and sexual taboos, he regularly packs his films with a surplus of heart, comedy, lust and color, like a child who goes to select a crayon and then absconds with the entire box.
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DUBLIN — Marian Finucane, who broke taboos as a radio broadcaster in Ireland by addressing topics like divorce, rape, contraception, homosexuality and the female orgasm, becoming one of the country's most popular on-air personalities, died on Jan.
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The number of unmarried couples living together is growing for many of the same reasons it has elsewhere: rising individualism, greater empowerment of women, the deferral of marriage and a decline in traditional taboos on pre-marital sex.
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"In India, the cultural taboos around being able to talk about these issues, and a tendency to push them under the carpet, needs to be addressed," said Sudhanshu Vats, CEO at Viacom 18, MTV's parent company in India.
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Susandra, himself from Lombok, said local girls are often discouraged from surfing due to religious taboos about figure-hugging attire like wetsuits, pressure to do housework and fears that it will lead to wayward behavior, like casual sex.
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"Unforbidden Pleasures" is a collection of essays loosely linked by a diaphanous thread of a theme: the idea that forbidden pleasures — taboos and prohibitions and shameful desires — tend to obscure the meaningfulness to our lives of unforbidden ones.
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But it embraces extreme right ideas, and it broke countless taboos during the election -- including arguing that Germans should be "proud of the achievements" of their soldiers in World War II -- signaling a new turn for postwar Germany.
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Even so, for most of her life Levin rarely spoke about her mother's punishing nature, only going as far as calling her "difficult" because, she says, admitting to having cruel parents is one of the last existing taboos.
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It's true that in fiction and nonfiction alike, it might be that the industry gatekeepers (agents, editors) have been more willing to publish works with transgressive content and "bad" language as social taboos around, say, sex have relaxed.
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Whether that was because taboos were fading out as men began searching for more advanced and interactive ways to masturbate, or because of the rise in long-distance relationships thanks to online communication, is yet to be determined.
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Read about Buch, "a cozy, safe neighborhood" emblematic of the forces "threatening to upend Western politics as we know it," and delve into how Germany's taboos, once a bulwark against the far right, may now be enabling it.
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"Humor allows you to address taboos," said Mr. Khullar, whose parents came to Montreal from northern India in the 1970s and who is far more soft-spoken in person than his swaggering, expletive-fueled stage persona would suggest.
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Artists of several generations and many stripes pushed this approach forward, ransacking painting's history and conventions, examining it as both a commodity and an object in space, toying with its taboos and its pursuit of a signature style.
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He hardly sleeps, pushed his way to the top of two large and troubled car companies — first Renault and then Nissan — and energetically broke a series of corporate and national industrial taboos to bring them to good health.
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Throughout, Mr. Morin's 36 performers remained almost too close for comfort — discussing social taboos, from talking about money to drug use, while looking us in the eye, or inviting willing onlookers to get up and form revolutionary cells.
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Related: Tattoo Art Takes Over The Museum of London A Striking Video Portrait of India's Holi Festival This Model Got Tats Tracing 110 Years of American Tattoo Art A South Korean Artist Is Breaking Taboos with Flower Tattoos
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Lindsey Stanberry, R29's Director of Work & Money, will be chatting about all things money and taboos with writer Helaine Olen and photographer Brittany Powell on Wednesday, September 27 at the International Center Of Photography at 6:30 p.m.
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Less extraordinary is the dichotomy of good and bad blood and the way that blood in most medical contexts is seen as an "absolutely unquestioned good," but menstrual blood leads to taboos that can deprive girls of their education.
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Because tapping and rubbing one of OMGYes's virtual reality vulvas certainly won't equip you to "blow any woman away in bed," but breaking taboos with conversation might — as long as people can take it off-screen and get real.
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Lindsey Stanberry, R29's Director of Work & Money, will be chatting about all things money and taboos with writer Helaine Olen and photographer Brittany Powell tomorrow, Wednesday, September 27 at the International Center Of Photography at 6:30 p.m.
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Normally known as a mild-mannered pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by making open references to human rights abuse by the authorities.
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Only in a campaign of near daily absurdities and broken taboos could a sitting governor, Kentucky Republican Matt Bevin, muse at length but without much notice over "whose blood" will be shed in the aftermath of his candidate's loss.
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While the more square elements of society might chalk these low usage figures up to a win, one Japanese man fears the laws and taboos surrounding drugs in Japan may actually be robbing his fellow citizens of certain benefits.
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She kept quiet for years but in 2009 broke her silence and began campaigning against the taboos and stigma suffered by victims of sexual violence, which was used as a weapon by all sides in Colombia's 52-year-war.
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However, he and other Gulf Arab politicians speaking at the forum also said they were in favor of controls to prevent anonymous posting and of punishing users who broke taboos by criticizing religion or calling to end monarchical rule.
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Getting us to change how we eat over and over again tends to undermine the various social structures that surround (and steady) our eating habits: things like the family dinner and taboos on snacking between meals or eating alone.
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Crushing convention Trump has always crushed convention and been ready to step on racial, cultural and behavioral taboos, evidenced in his response for instance to Charlottesville riots and willingness to exploit foreign terror attacks to push his immigration policies.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Frustrated by one of the world's highest rates of sexual assault, poor law enforcement and tribal taboos that keep people quiet about gender violence, some Nigerian women are breaking with tradition to take self-defense classes.
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So, OK, we're looking forward to seeing sex toys served up with AI smarts and a side of blockchain—but really, we mostly look forward to the erosion of taboos around sexual health and sexual pleasure, particularly for women.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%Synopsis: In Spike Lee's romantic drama "Jungle Fever," the director deconstructs the taboos surrounding interracial love by telling the love story of architect Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) and his office employee Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra).
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Everybody knows you're passionate, Scorpio, but try to avoid being overzealous midweek, when Venus (the planet of values) opposes your ruler Pluto (dark planet of taboos and obsession) along the axis of your chart related to writing, thinking, and higher learning.
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Trump wants to show the people who sent him to Washington that he is doing exactly what he said he would do, taking aim at political taboos, living up to his rhetoric on trade and education, and building a significant presidency.
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In a 2012 write-up of Moonrise Kingdom, the New Yorker's Ian Crouch wrote about how Anderson had "broken one of Hollywood's biggest taboos: he offed the dog," a practice the 48-year-old filmmaker has repeated across his movies.
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Damore: I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally raising questions about cultural taboos and how they cloud our thinking about gender diversity at the company and in the wider tech sector.
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For more than a decade, Apple has succeeded by violating every one of the old cypherpunk taboos — tightly restricting software and centralizing control over its hardware — and made some of the most secure devices on the market because of it.
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The fact that men make up the vast majority of SCI patients, coupled with cultural taboos on engaging with female pleasure, means that we know and hear a lot more about how men access these new realms of sensation than women.
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The President's self image and his appeal to many supporters rests on the idea that he has the courage to take steps other Presidents wouldn't and that he will be unpredictable, disdain political correctness and shatter taboos that defied his predecessors.
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I wanted to take part in breaking taboos, to have in-depth dialogue with the people who are subverting tradition and to feel like my actions, completing quests and talking to NPCs, actually affected and transformed the town in any way.
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The widespread breaking down of artistic boundaries, sexual taboos, and drug interdictions, mixed with a desire for chance-based interdisciplinary collaboration is all beautifully illustrated by Frank Leibovici's massive flow chart covering two of the large entry walls to the exhibition.
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White, a recipient of SFMOMA's 2017 SECA Art Award, spent a year considering the intersections of art, humor, and magic, culminating in a wry exhibition that artfully challenges taboos and perceptions of the ordinary, while reconsidering the nature of representation itself.
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But they all owe a debt to If These Walls Could Talk, the 303 Demi Moore-produced and Cher-co-directed HBO movie that busted taboos around discussion and went on to nab four Emmy and three Golden Globe nominations.
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What you're seeing, with this rise of far-right anti-immigration politics across the West, is a destruction of gatekeeping norms: People's hostility toward immigration is giving politicians license to mainstream more extreme voices and challenge longstanding anti-racist taboos.
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A sex toy and an alarm clock in one, Little Rooster has already sold out around the world, he says, including in countries that Maggs coyly tells me have some of the strongest taboos against female sexual pleasure in the world.
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In Asia, where a youthful stand-up comedy scene is still developing, comedians in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are finding creative ways to tell jokes about sex and politics, while coming up against cultures of censorship and taboos.
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The company's success is emblematic of China's increasing economic power, which, combined with a more isolationist American foreign policy, is forcing European leaders to violate old taboos in order to improve the functioning of the European Union and its economy.
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Though the patent for the first menstrual cup was issued nearly 100 years ago, the devices have not been widely embraced because of religious and cultural beliefs, and taboos about touching one's own genitals and coming in contact with menstrual blood.
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They had disappeared at the same time as their colleague Surachai Danwattananusorn, 78, who was the face of the radio programme and also broke taboos - and was charged with violating Thailand's strict "lese majeste" laws - by openly criticising the monarchy.
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But he was also reminiscent of the older comics who once roamed the Catskills, those dark and angry men who provided a cathartic outlet for harsh ideas that both broke and reinforced taboos, about the war between men and women, especially.
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The scene may be a natural progression for "The L Word" The original "L Word" series shocked mainstream television audiences when it premiered in 2004 for its open portrayal of lesbian sex and was known for attempting to destigmatize social taboos.
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"It needs to show that it is willing to show that in the face of a new threat, it needs to react differently and be willing to rethink old taboos," said Martin Kahl, a terrorism expert at the University of Hamburg.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The #MeToo social media campaign to raise awareness about sexual harassment and abuse has sparked conversation in parts of Africa where domestic violence is rampant but strong cultural and religious taboos prevent women from admitting it.
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They had disappeared at the same time as their colleague Surachai Danwattananusorn, 78, who was the face of the radio program and also broke taboos - and was charged with violating Thailand's strict "lese majeste" laws - by openly criticizing the monarchy.
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Elaborating on Draghi's point, Rehn, a potential successor to Draghi, suggested there were no taboos and that besides a rate cut or more bond buys, further tweaks to interest rate guidance and a multi-tier deposit rate were also on the table.
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"In this issue we embark on an exciting era of more freedom and less inhibitions, challenging some taboos of how to visually present female sensuality … Who better than #BellaHadid to champion this revolution," one of the magazine's Instagram posts reads in Spanish.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German utility Uniper said on Wednesday there were no taboos in the fresh talks it will hold with its largest owner Fortum, breaking a long-standing deadlock between the two and potentially paving the way for a full take over.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From fears that eating chicken wings makes it hard to find a husband to beliefs that pineapple jeopardizes fertility, a host of food taboos are fuelling malnutrition among Indonesian girls, experts said as they launched an adolescent health drive.
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It's something I've thought about before, and the question I still ask myself is, Is black metal attracting more people with "far-right" political views, or is it that black metal encourages people to be totally honest, and there are no taboos?
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While there have been reports in Nangarhar, the eastern province where Islamic State first appeared in 2014 and in Zabul in the south, deep taboos that can make it impossible for women to report sexual abuse make it hard to know its scale.
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Breaking taboos through paintings and digital media — including Twitter and a sex talk radio show, by addressing issues of gender, sex, pleasure, and abuse — Johannesburg-based Lady Skollie is colonizing London with her first solo UK exhibition, Lust Politics at Tyburn Gallery.
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In court, they tried to suppress the episode at the grocery, fearing (rightly, it turned out) that Mrs Bryant's story would be taken by the all-white jury as evidence that Till had broken one of the sexual taboos of the south.
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Frederick Lewis Allen, in the epilogue to his 1931 best seller "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 19733s," wrote that cultural values changed after the crash: People began to dress more modestly, adopting a new formality and religiosity, reviving Victorian sexual taboos.
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It was Moses who turned being Jewish into a way of life, involving everything from ethical behavior (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal) to inscrutable rituals and taboos (thou shalt not wear a garment made of mixed linen and wool).
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Breaking down the taboos around menstruation, educating the public about what is normal and abnormal when it comes to period pain, and getting more funding for endometriosis research is key to helping the estimated 176 million women struggling with endometriosis live normal lives.
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While that's an untruth I actively encouraged when it came to convincing my sports teachers I couldn't get in the pool once I hit puberty, it's kind of gross that period taboos have left so many of us in the dark about menstruation.
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Shaped by centuries-old taboos and myths, they force many women to dry their home-made sanitary towels—made from spare pieces of cloth—in dark, unhygienic corners of the house, even in the roof, to avoid them being viewed by men.
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Our correspondent notes how dramatically Britain and the royal family have shattered some lingering class and racial taboos and how it provided a welcome distraction at a time of unrelenting bad news about the economy and the country's place in the world.
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The coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe with lethal and wealth-destroying consequences has proved so jarring to the powers-that-be on the European side of the Atlantic that they have discarded deep-set taboos to forge atypically swift and pragmatic responses.
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Media power players show great fascination in the stuff — particularly after the financial success of "Fifty Shades of Grey," the B.D.S.M.-lite series that started as erotic "Twilight" fan fiction — even as they rib its literary amateurism and recoil at its sexual taboos.
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Germany has, in the past decade, grown beyond many of the taboos that stem from the Nazi era and World War II. It leads on eurozone matters, sends small numbers of troops on overseas NATO missions and has organized recent sanctions against Russia.
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In Europe, taboos against anti-Semitism continued to hold firm two generations after the end of World War II. In the Middle East, it seemed possible that the peace process would lead at least to a softening of hatred toward the Jewish state.
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Yet after allowing so many social taboos to slip, Iran's leaders face a growing dilemma of whether to start translating the social changes into new laws and customs or try to hang on to the 40-year-old ideals of the revolution.
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As the decades go by, cultural baggage piles on: "Humans around the world have really strong cultural taboos around food," Spackman says, which is why Americans go gaga for curdled, aged milk (cheese) but won't even think about eating most organ meats.
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The other "Xi Jinping: Seven taboos" was based on a Chinese Communist Party document leaked by journalist Gao Yu. Appearing on Chinese television February 29, the booksellers claimed to have voluntarily turned themselves in and confessed to illegally distributing books banned in mainland China.
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All 6,000 square feet of San Francisco's The Laundry are a jungle of VR and AR stations, projections, sculpture, colorful lights, interactive, installation, and mixed-reality works, organized in conjunction with a global effort spearheaded by OpenIdeo to facilitate conversation and remove taboos surrounding death.
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There are many global traditions and arrangements that he could target, though each could carry a geopolitical or diplomatic price -- one reason even presidents who have come into office with all guns blazing often find that there's a reason why some taboos last so long.
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The eve of a holiday celebrating the Jews' liberation from bondage in Egypt is the perfect time to talk to the petite Jewish sex therapist who, over the course of her career, has helped to free countless Americans from the stigmas and taboos around sex.
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" It all started in the 1960s, he says, when the rise of feminism meant that "there were fewer taboos about women going out and being in social spaces doing the kinds of things that men do... more women were working and had disposable income.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian soap opera that is shattering social taboos - from domestic violence and acid attacks to menstruation and child marriage - has become one of the most watched series in the world, attracting over 400 million viewers, the producer said.
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DEFENDERS of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America stand tall again by demolishing the politically correct taboos of left-leaning, establishment elites.
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Today, others around the world are now looking at the work the Kiwis are doing surrounding the issue, as part of Time to Change, a new global alliance started in October 2007 that shares the same mission of breaking down the taboos surrounding mental health.
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"My rapid rise in the last year … is testament to the fact that America is crying out for somebody who will say the unsayable, who will break taboos, and who will fearlessly resist those who want to clamp down on free expression," he said.
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Specifically, in their campaign ads, and more specifically, in their own words — whether they came out shooting, literally (guns feature prominently in many G.O.P. candidates' ads), or tossed the playbook and tried to turn political taboos, like being a mother or a refugee, into strengths.
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Despite the unique cultural taboos arising from the historical memory of Nazism, Germany has joined a long list of European countries — Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia among them — where far-right, sometimes explicitly racist political parties command significant minorities in national elections.
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De Sade's fictions shred religious morals, familial taboos, and all other laws regulating sex; his extremes galvanized a new generation of writers and thinkers in France who viewed The Enlightenment as having produced a civilization that runs on moral hypocrisy, state violence, and robotic capitalism.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - An exhibit-cum-pop-up store of handcrafted dildos in Havana is throwing new light on sexual taboos in Cuba stemming from its macho culture and decades of isolation, and has re-ignited calls for the country to allow the sales of sex toys.
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Hugely popular until the 1980s as many Italian sexual taboos were being challenged for the first time, commedia sexy films usually involved a middle-aged man becoming improbably entangled with a beautiful younger woman who would shed most of her clothes at some point in the proceedings.
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However, he risks being held hostage by the Left Party, which supported his previous government but pledged to seek to bring down Lofven if he proposes bills to loosen up the tightly regulated labour market or ease rent control rules, taboos for the centre-left until now.
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"Popstar" reverses the idolatry, which is hilarious on its face and also a gesture in the direction of some of the cultural taboos and conundrums that stretch back through the history of American popular music from Eminem to Elvis Presley to the arrival of the banjo.
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Behavior in Madagascar is governed by thousands of cultural taboos, or fady (pronounced FAH-dee), many of which involve food (don't eat goat or eel), days of the week (no funerals or farming on Tuesday) and objects (don't use shovels with firm handles to bury the dead).
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" This genteel treatment, along with grossly inappropriate descriptors, appears in the book as well, when the author writes: "Through encounters with women such as Rachel, Newt knew that white men regularly crossed the color line despite laws and social taboos that forbade interracial liaisons and marriages.
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In these cultures, human sacrifice — usually of slaves or others with low status — was sometimes called for in response to several events, including the breaking of taboos or customs, the funerals of important people, or the consecration of a new house or boat, according to the authors.
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It seems unimaginable now that Reynolds was making a radical break with Hollywood taboos about male nudity, let alone full-frontal, by agreeing to appear in the altogether for a mainstream publication now that every actor from Jason Segel to Daniel Radcliffe has shown us his junk.
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Even the methods of the New Right borrow heavily from 1968: provoking with language; staging sit-ins; infiltrating book fairs with far-right publishing houses; breaking taboos like throwing a burqa over the statue of the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna; forging international links to similar movements.
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Embedded within the idea of seduction, he writes, are two stories: one of passion, in which a villain pursues a victim and degrades away their ability to consent; and one of reason, in which two rational individuals meet on equal ground, unburdened by prudish sexual taboos.
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Pope Francis: He used the keynote address of his stay in the United Arab Emirates to breach delicate taboos, specifically mentioning Yemen, where his hosts are engaged in a brutal war, and calling on countries throughout the Gulf region to extend citizenship rights to religious minorities.
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She's perhaps best known as the former CEO of Thinx, the absorbent underwear designed to replace pads and liners while breaking taboos, before she had to step down from the company amid claims of sexual harassment—allegedly discussing an employee's breasts and another's pierced nipples, among several other complaints.
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As Lena recounts what happened to her, she repeats sentiments that are blockbuster taboos — that she doesn't know, that she can't explain the Shimmer or what it was after — statements that are bound to exasperate the Lomaxes in the audiences as much as the Lomax in the movie.
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"It's quite clear how breaking taboos, using hate and incitement, all things done by the AfD, lowers inhibitions so much that they result in pure violence," she said in Paris in remarks that were reported by German media and later confirmed by her Christian Democrat (CDU) party's press office.
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Bannon's expulsion would be a small victory for those who worry that Trump's campaign and presidency have been a blow to important taboos, but it would neither indicate that Trump had been coopted by benign political forces, nor that his administration's humiliating incompetence will come to an end.
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In order to broaden our understanding of cannibalism, which he says vacillates between "the sensationalistic shit" and academic studies, Schutt examined the animal kingdom and applied what he learned to examples of cannibalism among humans, as well as the Western taboos that have led us to consider it unthinkable.
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While Pride Month celebrates the progress that L.G.B.T. people have made in living openly gay lives, social taboos during Mr. Franklin's heyday pressured other closeted men to assume the trappings of a straight life, perhaps even marrying a woman as a cover, something Mr. Franklin did not do.
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Professor Xu's rare rebuke of Mr. Xi challenged political taboos, urging the government to overturn its condemnation of the pro-democracy protests that ended after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 270, and calling on lawmakers to reverse the vote that abolished a two-term limit on Mr. Xi's presidency.
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But there is a gap between Iran's older, ruling clerics and the ambitions of its people, as was made clear when Iranians came out in force to dance and protest in the streets this weekend, breaking Islamic rules and political taboos, in celebration of Mr. Rouhani's re-election.
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One was the company's risqué "Xi Jinping and His Lovers"; another, published in 2013, outlined the party's so-called Seven Taboos, a list of forbidden topics and ideas like "press freedom" and "civil society"; a third book remarkably predicted the ouster of a once-powerful general named Xu Caihou.
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The Russian newspaper Gazeta reported that at Thursday's hearing, Mr. Pavlensky made a statement to the court in Russian that he was dedicating the trial to the Marquis de Sade, the 18th-century French nobleman and revolutionary known for his libidinous antics and writings that broke sexual taboos.
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AMSTERDAM — If there's a single work that encapsulates the artistry of Erwin Olaf, a leading Dutch photographer known for meticulously staged pictures that challenge social taboos and explore human frailty, it might be his 260 portrait of a young woman in a yellow dress from the Hope series.
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But in creating a culture around shutting down what his mainly young, white, male listeners saw as the sacred cows of "political correctness" -- whether it was sexual taboos or the pomposity of American elites -- Stern and the generation of radio "shock jocks" he inspired built the foundation of a revolt.
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Wanosik, who is based in Missouri and owns a business that makes lactation cookies, which are made with oats, flax seeds and other ingredients thought to improve lactation, says people on Facebook were horrified that she would breastfeed another woman's baby, highlighting one of the taboos that currently exist about nursing.
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The foundation, which Duchess Meghan was introduced to on a trip to India as part of her work as a World Vision Ambassador, works with women in Mumbai's urban slums to break taboos around menstrual hygiene by offering women access to low-cost sanitary pads and accurate information about menstruation.
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Time, in the sense that Cold War taboos are fading nearly three decades after its end, and money as it applies to a stagnant economy for wage-earning workers, in particular younger ones, whose first gut-level political memories were shaped by the 2008 financial crisis and its lingering fallout.
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Professor Xu challenged political taboos: urging the government to overturn its condemnation of the pro-democracy protests that erupted in Chinese cities in 1989 and ended after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and calling on Chinese lawmakers to reverse the vote that abolished a two-term limit on Mr. Xi's presidency.
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Steffen Kailitz, an associate professor at the Technical University of Dresden's Hannah Arendt Institute who studies extremism, authoritarianism and failing democracies, said he found the reaction to Mr. Trump's statement about Charlottesville encouraging, because the broad backlash showed that in the United States, the taboos against racism and extremism remain intact.
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Contrast Max and Karen's chemistry with the lead characters in Snipes's previous interracial romance Jungle Fever, which posits that its characters are primarily tempted by social taboos and stereotypes; One Night Stand assumes they're hot for each other because their spouses are tiresome, and, well, they look like Wesley Snipes and Nastassja Kinski.
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Carpenter from CNNMoney points out that while all of the aforementioned reasons like competition and fear are completely understandable — and that everyone is entitled to doing things at their own comfort level — if we ever truly want to see equal pay, we have to push ourselves to shatter the taboos around salary secrecy.
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The guardians of culture that cluster in these urban centers have a set of social values and set of social taboos that I think are informed by genuine commitments toward justice, but also have this sort of aspect of elite manners that are understood by huge parts of the society as elite manners.
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"People differ in their level of disgust sensitivity, [which is] the extent to which you find different types of things disgusting," she says, explaining that being grossed out by one thing—such as bodily fluids—means you're likely to be grossed out by other things, like insects, spoiled food, or sexual taboos.
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The mid-20th century was characterized by public policies and societal norms that fostered broad prosperity, including a rising minimum wage, firm rules for time-and-a-half for overtime, strong private-sector unions and cultural and political taboos against high pay and bonuses for executives in the face of layoffs of workers.
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Mr. Shapiro, who still lives in Los Angeles, wrote a book about it, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV." Add to that economic frustration, and taboos around race, gender and sexual orientation, and you start to explain Mr. Limbaugh's explosive success 20 years ago.
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Boots invited 10 young people from Norway, the United Kingdom and Sweden to work with 10 young locals from Sant Boi and they were asked to think about the worst image they could choose to paint on the hospital wall -- to initiate and open up a frank discussion on mental health taboos.
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Being part of the queer community and having made a significant contribution to sex-positive queer imagery themselves, Volcano had their own methods, questioning gender norms and sexual taboos in their photography series Love Bites (1991), which was itself the subject of considerable censorship and controversy inside and outside of the queer community.
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When: Saturday, April 23 & Sunday, April 24, 4pm Where: MoMA PS1(803-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens) Shūji Terayama, a Japanese avant-garde artist who gained recognition in the 1960s, became known for performing masked plays on the street, confronting taboos and stereotypes in the process and ambiguously mixing fact and fiction.
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But here in Kurdistan, their aura is augmented with sexual characteristics that stem from the negative magical power long associated with women under patriarchy as "the second sex"—the sex of the left hand and evil eye, of the horror of menstruation and black magic—and therefore hedged in by taboos (honor, the veil, etc.).
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Its aim is to deal with the remaining taboos in modern interpersonal situations, and this was my favorite one, because as open as most people are to discussing the most intimate details of their relationships (with their partners or friends or strangers, even), money is the one thing many still feel uncomfortable talking about.
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The slow but rising trend can be credited to a combination of fading taboos around difficulty conceiving; a competitive job market with employers eager to adopt recruiting and retention tools; and the reframing of infertility as an issue less about ambitious women who have waited too long than one of corporate diversity and inclusion.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis used the keynote address of his roughly 40-hour stay in the United Arab Emirates to breach delicate taboos on Monday, specifically mentioning Yemen, where his hosts are engaged in a brutal war, and calling on countries throughout the Gulf region to extend citizenship rights to religious minorities.
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One of those taboos, as I discovered when I visited Sweden at the height of the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, is the idea that refugees from conservative Muslim countries, especially poorly educated young men, may not integrate into Swedish society as well as, say, relatively secular and prosperous Iranians or Bosnians.
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Trump has also frequently dominated news cycles with provocative rhetoric that breaks taboos, including unabashed insults targeting women he dislikes over Twitter, or unusual policy proscriptions like his call to temporarily bang Muslims from entering the country to prevent domestic attacks, or to force Mexico to pay for a multi-billion dollar border wall to keep out immigrants.
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A writer of Aksel Sandemose's ilk most probably would have zoomed in on the girl in the red bikini both he and his friend desire, then followed the three of them through life, because here we have a very fundamental psychological as well as social structure, two on one, and archaic in nature, the taboos surrounding it are basic.
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Whether the setting is the Bronx in the 1980s, South Central Los Angeles in the 1990s, Oakland or any number of midsize cities today, one finds the same broken gold chains, self-published books and shabby mortuaries; the same candle vigils and Russian roulette; the same petty slights, retaliation, snitching taboos and grisly walk-up executions.
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I thought that June was most likely specifically targeted by Gilead because she was married to a black man, not just because she was married to someone who had been married before, and that this would develop into a commentary on how the sexual taboos of the evangelical right have evolved in the time since Atwood wrote her book.
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Her provocative affront to the taboos imposed upon Arab and Muslim women, her shattering of the shame that surrounds our sexualities and bodies, her frank display of abuse, obscenity and failure, liberates the genre from its grandiosity, imagining a gospel of the mundane that reflects the mortality and fragility in each and every one of us.
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Since heavy metal's inception in the early 20003s—or 22000s, depending on who you ask—heavy metal has been criticized for its flagrant obsession with cultural taboos and longstanding love affair with Satan, and from a purely musical standpoint, musicians on the outside looking in often have a hard time accepting metal because of its extreme guitar tones and unclean vocals.
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In a recent book chapter based on a qualitative study with 198 teenagers who had lost a friend, Wandel highlighted how, for these young people who often struggle to express what they feel, posting on social media allowed them to break certain taboos surrounding death, to process their emotions, and to find meaning in the death shortly after it happens.
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I love that she's using her platform for good, which is why I love Origins so much too, people and brands that are using their platforms to bring good to this industry — an industry that's been one-sided for so long — and break down those barriers and those taboos and say, 'Hey, it's not cool anymore to not make a difference.
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And if the sexual taboos built into his church training are worth resenting to this day, "Black Canyon," where some poor sufferer kills himself by jumping in front of an 18-wheeler on the freeway, is for the saved and the unsaved alike, its hero a female firefighter brave enough to face her own worst memories as she shares the suicide's last moments.
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Instead, a much less tangible web of norms, taboos, and fears has reined in US presidents since World War II. But as North Korea escalates its nuclear weapons tests, Russia promises to strengthen its nuclear forces, and the new President of the United States has openly tweeted that the US must "strengthen and expand its nuclear capability," experts worry that this fragile web could start to tear.
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