Word: repression
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...explain this skittishness? "We are still very much governed by our puritanical heritage," answers Faye Wattleton, president of the New York-based Planned Parenthood Federation. "While European societies have chosen to recognize sexual development as a normal part of human development, we have chosen to repress it. At the same time, we behave as if we're not repressing it." In studying various cultures, the Guttmacher researchers found that the highest teen-pregnancy rates were in countries with the least open attitudes toward sex. "The ambivalence our society is projecting about sex is costing us a lot," concludes Institute President...
...China's communist regime is encouraging go-go people to make loads of money, but continues to repress those same individuals while denying the rest of its citizens basic rights. Without a hint of irony, a few months ago Defence Minister Robert Hill remarked that China is not "a democracy of our type." Quite. The so-called "peaceful rise of China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff...
...commitment is also belied by the steps it has taken over the past two years to repress Iraqi dissent, from ordering troops to open fire on peaceful demonstrators to blocking the publication of certain newspapers to shutting down the offices of Iraq’s trade unions and other civic groups. We have simply failed to pave the path towards a free society. Instead, we have followed the road to Abu Ghraib...
...recent years have forced Eminem out of the closet as nothing but a big, worried nerd. Despite all his efforts, he’s never been successful at convincing people he was carefree. And as much as we tried to repress our intuitions, we always wanted to ask him why, if he really had as little to prove as he claimed, he felt compelled to talk about it so much. He’s crushingly smart though, and because he knows exactly what he sounds like, he plays up the tension, pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It?...
...University administration attempts to decide whether to challenge the Solomon Amendment in court, it is time again to ask a pertinent question: who would recruiters, or even a full-fledged ROTC establishment, hurt? Would recruiters go out of their way to harangue students, or actively repress homosexuality on campus-—just the things that the anti-discrimination policies are meant to prevent? Would there be any lack of warnings or teach-ins admonishing would-be cadets of the existence of “don’t ask, don’t tell?” Hardly...