Sentences with phrase «taboo about»

With the already established taboo about self - publishing, it is imperative for you to present yourself in the most professional light possible.
There's something almost taboo about the way this film annihilates the Christmas spirit with its yuletide terror, and it's one that is sure to make it onto many requisite holiday viewing lists.
The film is a celebration of everything irreverent and taboo about fraternities, but also topically explores what life can hold once you're past that point in your life.
«There's some sort of taboo about male nudity and I don't see a problem with it,» Bolger tells ETonline while promoting the Tribeca Film Festival debut of her new thriller Emelie.
But in the end there is really nothing taboo about it, at least not to me.
And there is a very open taboo about women dating younger men!
The taboo about age - gap dating is fast waning in these modern times and has been affirmed and popularised by many celebrity «cougar women younger men» scenarios.
When I was growing up (a very long time ago now when England were good at sports and the Bee Gees were topping the charts) there was a real TABOO about dating agencies and classified personal ads.
The researcher hopes that the results can help to break down a taboo about medical doctors» substance use disorders.
There used to be a taboo about speaking about the «big C» - cancer.
Until the taboo about breasts is gone, the media will always have a problem depicting breastfeeding, even if it wants to.
Far from damaging her stature, however, they received widespread acclaim for breaking the taboo about mental illness.
A general taboo about procreating outside the context of marriage, yes, but no extended analysis was really necessary while there was only one way to make a baby.
Thinx boss Miki Agrawal wanted to break taboos about the female body.
In spite of their taboos about their own special holy objects, they still know right from wrong when it comes to harming other people.
We see it in iconic imagery, and religious taboos about sexuality, particularly women's sexuality.
Clinical psychologist Antonette Zeiss explains that we find it «difficult to confront» sex among the elderly because «it's the conjunction of two taboos about sex.
Food choices mark out who is part of our group — hence the strong religious taboos about pork which have endured long past the time when consuming it carried a serious risk of food poisoning.
THINX's mission is to create innovative period solutions that empower people, sustain our planet, and break taboos about menstruation and reproductive health.
QUOTE: «The taboos about contact and touching were very basic and pervasive when I started.»
Most remarkably, in reaction against the taboos about left and right that he encountered on his travels, Twombly began to draw «as if with his left hand».
Talking to people about reproductive health and breaking taboos about it is important.»

Not exact matches

What I'm most excited about is really, really breaking the taboos
For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.
«People think of talking about salary as kind of taboo, but it's a good thing,» said Donna Ballman, an employment lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
It's taboo to share your salary with everyone, but being transparent about payment is very beneficial for businesses.
If you're planning a date for Valentine's Day, you'll probably want to avoid talking about money: Most people are so reluctant to engage that they would prefer to discuss other taboo topics like politics or religion.
In the old days, it was taboo to talk about your personal life in public but social media has changed all that.
If you're going to get mainstream press out of a subject that's taboo and no one wants to write about, you can do anything.
It's not a taboo topic to talk about with us.
In his own words: «When we talk about investing is the stock market, there is always a subject that is almost considered a taboo: Stock Market Crash!
When we talk about investing is the stock market, there is always a subject that is almost considered a taboo: Stock Market Crash!
Once I decided to start blogging, sharing became the new normal for a topic that a few years ago was very taboo to speak about.
In today's click - to - borrow culture, why is it that talking about debt seems like the last great taboo?
Jump into a conversation between Shannah Game and Taylor Schulte as they chat about the top five investing taboos that raise a lot of questions, doubt, and insecurities with investors.
No, but I think that 123 area which I will tell you goes back to the range of the week of July 23rd, 2012 when the Draghi, of course, made his famous speech about no taboos and will do whatever it takes.
Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.
I remember back in the 60's and 70's we all had gut feelings about priests molesting kids, but to even suggest it was taboo.
The Youngs say the church has been silent about the issue of sex for too long and that they believe the issue should not be so taboo.
The human brain's reflexive thinking about tribes and taboos blinds us to our stupidity and religion often capitalizes on that.
Suicide sounds like it should be one of those untouchable topics for comedians, however, Louis C.K. has cultivated one of the most successful comedic careers in history by doing bits about each one of these taboo topics.
A willingness at least to talk about opioid deaths (among other taboo subjects) surely helped Donald Trump win last November's election.
This has been such a taboo subject in the Church... and hopefully a time is coming when it won't be about «putting up with» people, but rather «persevering with» people on our journeys, regardless of where any of us start from or hardships we face along the way.
Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent of techies are religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject matter is taboo among most modern scientists; it's not something we talk about in our daily working lives.
Do you feel it is becoming less taboo to talk openly about your questions about Christianity?
Child sex abuse is a taboo topic for some parents [and churches]-- CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/…/sexual-abuse-talking-to-kids-parents/ CNN Apr 30, 2014 — Child sexual abuse is a taboo topic in some families, but experts insist that parents must empower kids to speak up about inappropriate... until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the.....
Taboos vary by culture becuase religions develop based on the laws of darwinian evolution in that different environments bring about different religions.
The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.
It is a difficult enterprise to maintain in a time when taboos lie strewn across the cultural battlefield, but Ms. Brown, being British, knows that there is still a giggle to be milked from an audience that only vaguely remembers what was supposed to be sacred about the institutions and ideas now so casually mocked.
This made possible rational alteration and interpretation of the taboos leading to the possibility of critical reflection about them.
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