Quotes About Stigma

Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, it makes the moral authority of whites and the legitimacy of American institutions contingent on proving a negative: that they are not racist. The great power of white guilt comes from the fact that it functions by stigma, like racism itself. Whites and American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.

She would not show her personality, and even if she did, nobody would see it; they would be too distracted by the thought of a mechanical cunt, endlessly absorbing discharge.

Maybe the girls in my gym class had been right all along, and poetry was a trick on smart people—a bunch of hooey, fawned over by whining fops of the most stick-up-the-ass variety.

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

Téléclitoridienne means simply "female of the distant clitoris," but it had a lovely, aristocratic ring to it—calling to mind a career woman in heels and sweater set, cabling reports from her home in Biarritz. At the very least, it had a nicer ring to it than "frigid.

When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

Being ugly is one of the worst things you can do for your brand, because people will assume that you've sinned a whole bunch and God is punishing your face.

ideário dos saqueadores fez com que pessoas como o senhor passassem a encarar suas maiores realizações como um estigma vergonhoso, sua prosperidade como culpa, seus maiores filhos, os industriais, como vilões

el colapso económico debería haber convertido en historia esa idea de que la pobreza es un fracaso del individuo, o el fruto de una disfunción interna. En las colas del paro y las de la beneficencia hay tantas hormigas como cigarras, tantos optimistas habituales como depresivos crónicos.

In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, like the one where we'd been convened to receive the information that from now on our bodies would be producing poisons that would need to be discharged on a monthly basis, through an unspecified orifice. The restriction of the typing requirement to girls suggested some sort of connection between our festering genitals and the need to serve in a clerical-type occupation, perhaps as a punishment.

Because DSS pay is basically the fuck-you peanut butter sandwich type of paycheck. That's what the big world thinks it's worth, to save white-trash orphans.