Quotes About Stigmatization

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person.

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

Now I've got kids, you wouldn't want them to suffer because of a perception of you. I try to be very careful where I do things and make sure I know why I've done them. I wouldn't want them to be stigmatized.

Today, the word "refugee" is used in a horrible way. It's something either to be pitied or blamed for everything. Overpopulation? It's the refugees. Rents going up? It's the refugees. Crime? It's the refugees. If you label people refugees, they remain refugees for the rest of their lives.

The doctor told her that the effect of the procedure "would wear off." Cox's mother consented to her daughter's sterilization under a North Carolina law that allowed sterilization of mental defectives under age twenty-one if their parent consented. Cox underwent the operation, which left her permanently infertile, although there was no evidence that she was mentally defective.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

Like many very poor people and people from countries in turmoil, Nafissatou Diallo had lived in the margins, where telling the truth to authorities is not always a wise or safe thing to do, so she was portrayed as a liar.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Los regímenes demagógicos exigen que olvidemos y, por tanto, estigmatizan los libros como un lujo superfluo; los regímenes totalitarios quieren que no pensemos y, por consiguiente, prohíben y amenazan y censuran; ambos, en general, necesitan que nos volvamos estúpidos y que aceptemos con mansedumbre nuestra degradación y por eso alientan el consumo de productos vacuos. En circunstancias como ésas, los lectores no pueden más que ser subversivos.

Consider the example of trans. There was a reason to linger over the difficult and poorly discussed issue of people who are born intersex. It was not for prurience but to make a point. As Eric Weinstein has observed, anyone genuinely interested in addressing the stigmatization and unhappiness felt by people who are in the wrong bodies would have started addressing the question of intersex first.

In the wake of Cologne and other similar attacks one could hear the language deteriorate around the fringes. Street movements began to talk of all arrivals into Europe as 'rapefugees'. In Paris I met an elected official who referred to all migrants as 'refu-jihadists'. These were unamusing as well as insulting terms for anybody who knew first hand that some at least of the people who had come were fleeing rape or escaping jihad.

Como toda lengua, esa también jerarquizaba, estigmatizaba, a los vagos, a las mujeres casquivanas, a los «sátiros» y los malvados, a los niños malcriados, alababa a las

Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.

The demonizing and devaluing of certain segments of the population during the last two decades of the nineteenth century would grow in both support and legitimacy.

Diagnostic fads simply relabel patients that psychiatrists have always seen.

advocated celibacy, but these societies have disappeared. Virtually all major religions that survive today instill gender roles and reproductive norms that encourage women to cede leadership roles to men and to bear and raise as many children as possible—stigmatizing any sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. Throughout history, religion has helped people cope with survival under insecure conditions. Facing

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

Yep, now even the teachers were treating me like an idiot. I shrank back into my chair and remembered when I used to be a human being. I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.