Word: repression
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...longs for a meaningful, emotional connection with a man. He fantasizes about men all the time, ever since he was a little boy, but never acknowledged these feelings because he grew up in a conservative environment where the only acceptable way to deal with these emotions was to repress them. They are now contemplating divorce...
...what are now called mixed-orientation marriages. While there are a myriad of complicated factors that could induce BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transgender) men and women to enter into heterosexual marriages, it is a tragedy when they do so because conservative religious environments force them to repress their sexual orientation...
...often print their anti-Semitic material out of sheer anti-Semitism. This entire debacle highlights the problems that arise when a movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right to blaspheme, offend, and shock others. To repress speech in the interest of curtailing blasphemy would be to subscribe to a particular religious dogma, which a liberal, secular government ought never do. Before democracy can be established in the Middle East, the violent protesters and conservative governments must demonstrate respect for freedom of speech. Ramya Parthasarathy...
...Ironically, the Court’s justification relies on British colonial emergency regulations that were themselves used to repress the Zionist movement,” he wrote...
...could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has become a derelict, with speech rhythms and nervous tics that suggest the young Tony Perkins--does 28 Up offer a character as full and mysterious as we might find in a novel, or in an old friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines...