Should more forms of unorthodox behaviour be stigmatized?

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More social cohesion + 'unorthodoxy' strengthened by ordeal and purged of vacillation?

― dave q, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Define 'orthodox' pl.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything most ppl's grandparents or the 'Mail' wouldn't approve of

― dave q, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ironic reactionary

― maryann, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can't we just stick to re-stigmatizing sex?

― maryann, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The answer is yes. To the question. Stigmatize!

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lets keep stigmatizing Internet Addiction Disorder so we can ignore the real roots to peoples probelms and blame them all on technology while sending more and more people into AA based 12 step programs and seriously messing with their heads.

Without stigmatizing those different than us how would self help industry survive? There would be mass unemployement, teenage riots in the streets, more senseless violence from former Shamespiral pushing lunatics.

More stigmatas (who knows the plural for stigmata? I dont) would be cooler by far.

― zacko, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everyone bleed out holes in their hands and feet - go!

― Ally, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its not working. I really could use the flowery scent right after lunch. Leave the blood for the cleaners.

― zacko, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought singular was stigma and plural stigmata.

― Lyra, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lyra is right, stigma = singular and stigmata = plural. I considered pointing this out but didn't want to appear pedantic. Oh, ok, I was going to point it out but my pedantic side got distracted by the horrific realisation that two-thirds of my treasured collection of different editions of Fowler's "Modern English Usage" had gone missing. Oh no!

Sad, isn't it? Well, I'll never be able to write eloquently or interestingly, so being anal about semicolon usage and fused participles is as close as I'll get. Sigh.

― Rebecca, Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In an astonishing development, our copy of Fowler's has just gone missing too. Is there a madman with an anti-grammatical agenda on the loose?

― Nick, Tuesday, 28 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y's in Kansas, I don't know if that counts as "on the loose" or not.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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