Quotes About Stigma

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.

You'd think he'd look more ashamed of himself, said Bertie. You'd think that he'd look more ashamed of being a Campbell.

cleavage is a liability in this climate

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

For three centuries, Black mothers have been thought to pass down to their offspring the traits that marked them as inferior to any white person. Along with this biological impairment, it is believed that Black mothers transfer a deviant lifestyle to their children that dooms each succeeding generation to a life of poverty, delinquency, and despair. A persistent objective of American social policy has been to monitor and restrain this corrupting tendency of Black motherhood. Regulating

It's not easy being easy.

I'm into S/M" is a turnoff to a lot of people who have mistaken ideas about what that means

Despite what you might have learned from the TV or the tabloids, sex workers really are not all desperate drug addicts, debased victims, or predatory gold diggers. Many healthy and happy people work in the sex industry, doing essential and positive work healing the wounds inflicted by our sex-negative culture. We know them as friends, lovers, colleagues, writers, therapists, and educators, as

I think a lot of women look at hookers like scabs crossing a picket line. "You can't just go out and sell it! We're holding out for so much more!

Democrats were seen as the party who really cared. Republicans the party of wealthy assholes.

For many gay men and women the idea that sexuality is fluid and that what goes one way may go another (what goes up must come down) is an attack on their person.

In society at large, when people come out as gay they are celebrated for having arrived at their natural end-point. For most people this is a decent recognition by society that there is no problem with them being who they are: they have arrived at the place that is natural and right for them. But one oddity of this position is that anybody who is gay and then subsequently decides they are straight will be the subject not just of a degree of ostracism and suspicion, but widespread doubt

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.