The most intimate parts of your relationship suddenly are considered
acceptable conversation topics for parents, grandparents, friends and coworkers.
Cordoning off marriage from the mix of
acceptable conversation topics only heightens the pressure for couples to hide behind a perfect facade, pretending all is always well — while affections, trust and respect crumble, privately.
Not exact matches
Emotions around grief that were once taboo are now becoming more
acceptable topics of
conversation.
Luke was an educated man, he knew full well what
topics were
acceptable in public discourse and which were to be private matters, and pregnancy was most definitely a private matter — a
conversation left to women, sometimes catty women, who shame those who don't give birth.
It interests me that it is an
acceptable topic of
conversation immediately upon meeting someone in the scene — now I haven't been to many singles events, but generally when I'm in a bar people don't come up to me and ask «what are you into in the bedroom» as an opening line so I'm presuming it's not happening in «vanilla» single circles?
My theory is this: discrimination is an
acceptable topic of
conversation because it's a little more inclusive, and many more of us have had to deal with discrimination than have had to deal with racism.