To Woolf and her Bloomsbury friends, psychoanalysis must have confirmed what they already suspected, that social norms and accepted forms of behavior were often there to veil the gulf that exists between what is professed and the truth.
As a baby-boomer, born a year before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, it seems like a very short time ago when overt racial segregation, and both de jure and de facto racism were accepted forms of behavior in our society.
But it's an accepted form of creepy.
Credit cards are not an accepted form of payment.
"Haha's" are more easily accepted forms of "laugh-filler".
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For Fadl, jihad was less a spiritual quest than "a socially acceptable form of bad behavior".
Dale's presence in the Boy Scouts would, at the very least, force the organization to send a message, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Scouts accepts homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior.
He said "Dale's presence in the Boy Scouts would, at the very least, force the organization to send a message, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Scouts accepts homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior".
"Dale's presence in the Boy Scouts would, at the very least, force the organization to send a message…that the Boy Scouts accept homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior," he concluded.
