All they had to do was look right in front of them or ask. Both saw the glass half-empty. Rather than seeing new neighbors as a possibility for Cathy to make friends, Marion saw them as an invasion of privacy. Instead of seeing them in a positive light, she sees them as a nuisance. Cathy saw her mother as someone who views the world in a negative way and chose to distance herself from her.
This is the attitude of most people of Laramie. They do not trust gay men or gay women. This is rather strange as it strongly opposes the great ideal of Laramie life – “Live and let live” (Kaufman 17). Such level of discrimination in Laramie has only creates great problems of insecurity within the society itself. This level of insecurity has only given birth to great amounts of mistrust within the Laramie
In some cultures woman are subjected by law to abide the rules and living conditions provided by their spouse, solely based on their vow to obey and honor. In a lot of cases domestic violence becomes fatal incidences, but for the most part it is a reoccurring even in people's everyday lives. Studies have shown that victims, mainly woman, don't speak up about what they're are going through because they fear the
From the beginning there were many examples of inaccurate perception of race. The history before the civil rights movement had left the majority of people in this generation to hate the opposing race, which explains the amount of inaccurate perceptions. For example, Gerry Bertier and Julius were two teammates that initially hated each other. Bertier, the white team captain and Julius was a black player that was just as good as Bertier. The tension of race as well as other social pressures kept their friendship from forming for most of the film and illustrated the difficulty of integration during this time.
This affected a lot between C’s and Sonny’s relationship, it affected everyone’s relationship with Sonny. Being feared rather than love gives Sonny the feeling like everyone respects him. The bad result of that is no one to love, you get lonely, and no one really understands you. C’s and Sonny’s relationship was based on both fear and love, mostly fear though. Sonny didn’t trust C with all his heart, and that ruins the relationship.
Society makes it clear their disapproval of homosexuality, but tries to punish it in a way that does not begin to “cure” it at all. Being homosexual is not a choice somebody has, according to the reading, a man/woman discovers his/her sexuality has progressed within time, and by then, it becomes to late. The homosexual goes through society with the knowledge that this is already not okay, sending him underground and already having to hide who he is. Since the homosexual
Last but not least, parents have to face the ridicule from society and family members also when their child is homosexual. It is not something easy to live
He then asked Jim to set up a session with just Serena and himself so he could tell Jim his side of the story. Jim called him and Serena’s mom separately, and said that the next meeting would have to be with both adults and no child because the reason for treatment was so far removed from the nonsense that was going on. Jim felt he was being ineffective because of the difficult place they put him in. It is not an ethical violation to tape a session, but in this case it was an ethical concern because of what it was being used for. Serena’s father wanted to use it in court against her mother for personal gain.
Rogers displayed empathy when he conveyed to Gloria his understanding of Gloria's concern on how much she should share with her daughter about her sex life. Gloria was feeling guilty for having lied to her daughter. Dr. Rogers communicated to Gloria that he understood and appreciated her ambivalence when he said "if you can't accept these feelings in yourself how could you possibly be comfortable sharing them with your daughter"? The congruence between Dr. Rogers and Gloria helped to put Gloria at ease. Dr. Rogers communicated to Gloria that he understood that she did have these feeling and did have these desires and didn't always feel good about them.
However what had formerly been viewed as a charity program aimed at helping helpless mothers, and females, was now being seen as a waste of time and money. America’s increasing economic problem caused great resentment toward welfare programs and to their recipients. White middle class America did not like the ideas of their tax money going to support other, especially when many of the white middle class had full time jobs. Nationalized reports of welfare fraud were all it took to convince the middle class that all welfare recipients were lying and cheating the system. Americans who felt overtaxed had something to blame it on now the more they resented welfare the worse the stereotype became, soon they were all drug users, who never intended to work just live off welfare, and the only reason that their children were starving is that they were spending the money on other things.