Sentences with phrase «taboo subjects for»

It used to be said that until the late 1960s, the Holocaust was a taboo subject for anxious American Jews.

We have the unique opportunity to make postpartum mood disorders better understood and not a taboo subject for our children's generation.

Birth was a taboo subject for a number of years — the same years during which twilight sleep ensured that many women never consciously experienced it.

In this modern age where science rules and people are further than ever from their animal origins, it's no wonder that breastfeeding has become a taboo subject for many.

Indeed, 51 % of women think that sex is a taboo subject for a date (vs just 17 % of men).

There is a George Carlin routine in which he states that given the right context, there really is no taboo subject for comedy.

As many misconceptions as there are about both of those topics individually, trying to understand how the two relate is almost a taboo subject for a lot of -LSB-...]

«Money is a taboo subject for families, but we do find that silence can be costly,» says Lauren Brouhard, a senior vice president at Fidelity Investments.

Not exact matches

For some, discussion of a religious subject is taboo when it comes to business.

Sana Hasan, an Egyptian scholar best known for her Enemy in the Promised Land, has written another important book in Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt» a book in which she honestly confronts the sorry condition of Christians in Egypt, where the «problems faced by the Christian minority are for many... a taboo subject.»

We are not using God's Word, the Bible, when trying to educate people, Christians and non-Christians, about what God has to say about caring for the poor, racism (a taboo subject in many evangelical circles), and articulating moral principles like the immoral budget proposed by Ryan - Romney as well as many other societal issues.

Moms learn and talk about: - Caring for ourselves and out families - Family sleep and tranisitions - Motherhood: the myth and reality - Newborn family nutrition - Identifying my supports - Siblings and the newborn family - Diapering, baby wearing and attachment parenting - Every family is unique - Boundary setting - Mommy anger and other taboo subjects - The new normal - Effective communication Led by trained postpartum peer coaches

It's time for the Conservatives and Labour to realise that the world has moved on, reform is no longer a taboo subject and voters expect politicians to deliver results based on solid evidence, not overblown rhetoric.

On the plus side, says Dr. Williams, talking about — and caring for — our vaginas is no longer a taboo subject.

But since 1) that's a sum total of two people, 2) the last few years have just been weird for bonuses and billable requirements anyway, and 3) it seems like it's a touchy / taboo subject.

Sex often is a taboo subject, especially if you're looking for it.

Many find sex between seniors and romance a taboo subject and it's hard for people to imagine older daters to be as sexual as someone in their twenties and thirties, but as many know, it's important to have a full and active life to really enjoy every aspect of a relationship.

Fang Li should be applauded for his courageous efforts to address taboo subjects of sex and politics, even while one may question certain aspects of his films.

In fact, the film is already raising ire of protest groups for its treatment of taboo subjects, including animal cruelty and mental illness.

The film is not a perfect work and vacillates greatly in quality, particularly in Volume Two, but the successful sequences are so rich in thought - provoking representations of big subjects and so distinctively the work of its singular and taboo - flouting director that it all makes for essential viewing.

The difficult little brother of the independent cinema world is coming off a mostly unsuccessful attempt to return to former glories with 2009's «Happiness» semi-sequel «Life in Wartime,» and had promised lighter fare for his latest, «Dark Horse,» claiming that for the first time in his career that he wanted to make a film without pedophilia, or masturbation, or any of the taboo - breaking subjects that he made his name with.

In its climax, the film happily adds «violence against women» (albeit of the self - defense variety) to the list of taboo subjects it tries to mine for comedy.

Nonetheless, I give Ms. Dixon credit for tackling the taboo subject of AIDS in a serious manner, a reminder that the disease continues to run rampant in the African - American community.

It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product of its time and an effort to broach a taboo subject in light of today's cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.

For this irreverent adventure essentially undermines itself via ill - advised departures into such taboo subjects as child molestation and date rape, all in search of a cheap joke.

It playfully mines religion — a somewhat taboo subject — for plenty of laughs without being mean or disrespectful.

Despite its failings, I'm still willing to give Blackbird a little credit for tackling a subject that remains taboo in the black community.

This legislation would protect individuals from the very real threat of being profiled or investigated for crimes based on the taboo subject matters they like to read.

The Bastard of Istanbul , Elif Shafak's sixth novel and the second written in English, was an instant bestseller in Turkey and got her indicted for denigrating Turkishness, code for openly discussing the Armenian diaspora and the 1915 massacre, a taboo subject in Turkey.

For Artforum's January 3, 2017, «500 Words,» Aram notes, «I tend to embrace some of the more taboo subjects in art.

On Open Democracy,, Ivan Grinko explains why migration is a taboo topic for Russia's museums, which «avoid [the subject] at all costs».

Seen as a question the exhibition seeks to expose, either directly or symbolically, a prompt for conversation around the particularly taboo subject of death in contemporary society.

Formed in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is internationally recognized for work that tackled such subjects as the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, the relationship between the body and the identity, issues of gender and sexual repression, and famously HIV / AIDS activism at a time when talking about the disease was a taboo.

Despite a cultural taboo, Namdakov has addressed the subject of Genghis Khan, sculpting the great Mongolian leader in bronze (2003, 2011) and acting as art director in the film Mongol (2007), for which he received Russia's Nika Award for Best Art Direction.

As for the narrative scenes that he depicts, they too are ostensibly African: Armitage travels to his homeland to derive inspiration while making drawings and watercolour sketches, and his finished paintings often foreground aspects of East African culture, such as indigenous folklore, issues surrounding mental health, or the taboo subject of homosexuality.

In the 1970s, American comics dealt with taboo subjects like sexuality and violence — here, for the first time, the subversive potential and the psychological content of comic worlds were used creatively in in fine art.

Pryor was renowned for his ability to objectify race relations in his routines, using irreverent, profanity - laced comment to foreground otherwise taboo subjects.

Family planning policies have been pushed off policy agendas for the last few decades, and the subject of population has even become taboo.

The idea that we can love one person but may desire another is such a taboo subject that couples rarely broach it for fear of hurting each other or breaching trust.

Robyn took an interest in sexuality at a young age, checking out and studying library books on what most kids (and adults, for that matter) considered a taboo subject.