With no context — and no real basis for interpretation — the act of labeling someone a "good dad" suggests that most dads are, by our very nature as fathers, somehow less than "good".
The simple act of labeling an individual or community as "different" and therefore "a threat" can trigger fear, hatred, and ultimately, violence.
Two recent papers by Vickers and co-workers have illustrated this principle, where the authors show that a brief shear exposure can change the receptor expression pattern of a cell and that the act of labeling cells with a ligand can cause receptor recycling as well as expression changes.
Your term is quite similar, but better suited to the act of labeling phenomena after the fact.
Other definitions of stigma include an attribute or characteristic that is contrary to a norm of a 'social unit' (10), conveys a social identity that is devalued (11), and an act of labeling, stereotyping, separation, status loss, and discrimination of someone possessing that attribute or characteristic (12).
As a Representative, Bernie raised no objection when Congress passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law that broadly criminalizes activism "for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise" and that has the ridiculous goal of labeling the act of freeing mink from farms as terrorism.
Often times, people make the mistake of labeling the act of infidelity as the main issue at hand.
On Twitter, most of the comments appeared to be negative, with some dismissing his suicide as an act of "terrorism" or labelling him a "Nazi".
In describing another, related study and its implications for prison life, he said that "the mere act of assigning labels to people, calling some people prisoners and others guards, is sufficient to elicit pathological behavior".
(Republicans then complained that the statement fell short of labeling the attack "an act of terrorism").
