Through fear, it encourages people to live a lie, to build their whole identity upon untruth.
We do not need to remind ourselves who we are, enforce our identity upon ourselves we just are vaguely British.
This is fine when applied to an adult choosing to be circumcised, but we should not impose identity upon a child who cannot choose.
Doctorow's father stamped the family's new identity upon his second son by naming him Edgar, "because he liked Edgar Allan Poe's work.
Elizabeth has built so much of her identity upon deriding other women that the spectrum of female companionship she can cope with is extremely narrow.
But he said gay honor killings remained underground because a homosexual not only brought shame to his family, but also tainted the concept of male identity upon which the community's social structure depended.
But he said gay honor killings remained underground because a homosexual not only brought shame to his family but also polluted the very concept of male identity upon which the community's social structure depended.
Lest we make the mistake of thinking of Quattlebaum's cross-dressing as a gimmick, or even a statement of transgender identity, upon closer inspection it becomes clear that it is simply an unwavering expression of a fully developed gender fluidity.
For suppose that x depends for its identity upon y.
Note that it may be urged, with some plausibility, that every object x trivially depends for its identity upon itself.
