Sentences with phrase «current social climate»

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

Due to the current social climate and the clamor for anti-racial acts, the world has attempted to embrace interracial dating and nowhere is this more evident than on dating sites.

Surely, nobody can be this disconnected from the current social climate to think that the general audience wouldn't emphatically reject this story.

McDonagh's script certainly takes major jabs at the current social climate in America regarding law enforcement.

Seeing temper replace timidity, or passion override passivity, is a far more accurate representation of our emotions, particularly in the current social climate.

Although Black Star is not intended as a direct response to the current social climates in the UK and US, Clark says that a number of the films in the programme speak directly to what's happening today: «John Singleton's seminal Boyz n the Hood is a prime example: it's impossible to watch the film and not see very clear connections to contemporary issues of police brutality and gentrification.

But the film doesn't play it straight - faced; it knows exactly what it is, embracing our current social climate and twisting it into a hilarious bloodbath.

Two Best Picture nominees in particular are a response to our current social climate.

It's a familiar trope — but do you think that in the current social climate this film will be received differently than it would have six months or a year ago?

You know Japan has to be spanking it pretty hard these days with the current social climate over there.

Tomorrow Is Another Day includes new essays by Zadie Smith, Anita Hill, and others about the importance of Bradford's work in the current social climate.

The photographers assembled here examine aspects of the country's current social climate, from the mundane to the politicized.

But most of them — including Currin, Carroll Dunham, Jeff Koons, and the young Mexican - American painter Alex Becerra (some of whose nudes are drawn from escort ads)-- declined to talk about their work's relationship to the current social climate.

I think the work I chose speaks to the current social climate and the demands of respectability politics, and how this «double - binds» African - Americans in the face of prejudices and racial violence.

Titles, such as September Elegy and The Day We Became People may be read as allusions to the current social climate.