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Those pushing the bounds of what is deemed acceptable behavior are increasingly caught within the grasp of algorithms meant to identify deviancy.
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Taylor Owen, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2015
These racist stereotypes of Asian women’s hypersexuality and deviancy create entire systems of knowledgebased in the control of women’s sexuality while obscuring the complex decisions, forms of labor, and institutions that shape women’s lives and work.
—Genevieve Clutario, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
High achievements and severe mental illness are not mutually exclusive, but many people may not know much about schizophrenia beyond media depictions associating it with violence, failure or deviancy.
—Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
Culture wars are being fought over them anyway because the deviancy that’s being defined down is that of the cultural warriors themselves.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
Nutting, who wrote the greatest Grub Street diet of all time, delights in deviancy.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
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Taylor Owen, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2015
These racist stereotypes of Asian women’s hypersexuality and deviancy create entire systems of knowledgebased in the control of women’s sexuality while obscuring the complex decisions, forms of labor, and institutions that shape women’s lives and work.
—Genevieve Clutario, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
High achievements and severe mental illness are not mutually exclusive, but many people may not know much about schizophrenia beyond media depictions associating it with violence, failure or deviancy.
—Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
Culture wars are being fought over them anyway because the deviancy that’s being defined down is that of the cultural warriors themselves.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
Nutting, who wrote the greatest Grub Street diet of all time, delights in deviancy.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
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“Deviancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deviancy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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