Quotes About Stigmatization

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Even the rising number of poor whites being swept into prison by corporate dispossession and profiteering today are often "blackened," in the sense of being marked in the eyes of the larger society as "transgressive" and in some of the ways often meted out to persons of color. In

Cernovich has cleverly repackaged such concepts in a manner friendly for guys, and in the process he has given men permission to engage in these activities without feeling stigmatized. It's akin to when Coca-Cola invented Coke Zero, which was conceived as a male alternative for those were too embarrassed by the perceived effeminacy of ordering a Diet Coke.

I've been called a skank, a whore, a whinger, and a slut.

Well into the twentieth century, expulsion and even sterilization sounded rational to those who wished to reduce the burden of "loser" people on the larger economy.

waste people," and later "white trash," marginalized Americans were stigmatized for their inability to be productive, to own property, or to produce healthy and upwardly mobile children

Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.

Like so many other high school discipline cases, he'd probably been given some hybrid cockamamie ADHD- bipolar diagnosis at a very young age and been medicated into submission for the benefit of his homeroom teacher. We've all read about them in the paper, the problem kids who get slapped with five disorders by the time they're twelve, and horse-pilled by a culture that has pathologized everything from PMS to teen angst.