Quotes About Stigma

I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

The only thing worse than dating a single mom is dating a single mom that won't put out.

As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Suicide is very contagious.

persons with AIDS, and they hear a very clear message from the church: "You get no sympathy from me. You deserve your suffering as God's punishment. Keep away." I cannot think of a more terrifying disease than AIDS, or one that provokes a less compassionate response.

do worry about the recent tendency for the labels "evangelical Christian" and "religious right" to become interchangeable. Increasingly Christians are perceived as rigid moralists who want to control others' lives.

He added a chilling remark, "As a gay man, I've found it's easier for me to get sex on the streets than to get a hug in church.

It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.

a powerful woman will always attract slander

A title like 'the Lady,' for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.

This is how women are treated: when they act on their own account they are named as sinners, when they enjoy success they are named as whores.

Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something.

They may hate us for sucking cock, but at least they can't accuse of making more little cocksuckers.

Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.

What's a slut? I ask him. A girl who puts out too easily. Puts out what? I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that. Puts out, you know... His face, already beet red from our run, turns a darker scarlet. Sex. I wonder where Greer puts the sex out.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

A woman may in some circumstances acquire what she desires without the protection of a man." She regarded Ester. "If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

Marrano" was the Spanish word for "pig." Pretty much sums up Catholic Spain's view of Jews.)