When you tell me that you're "not ready yet," or "not good enough" to commit to a job you love, I know that's not you saying it, that's the internalized voice of your boss speaking through your mouth.
I argue that it is not only the level of obesity that is alarming, it is the internalized voice in girl's and women's heads that repeat "I'm unattractive," "I'm fat, ugly," "Nobody will ever want to be with me," and "I'm lazy, disgusting". Further, the "diet" message rarely confronts the powerful objectification of women and women's bodies perpetuated by our mainstream culture.
Age-integrating the struggles ahead means coming to grips with our own internalized ageism, the voices that whisper "too old" or "too young," that make us complicit in our own marginalization.
They are, instead, a reflection of her internalized journey, part of the process of becoming whole.
Salmonella isolates from internalized condition showed considerable internalization potential.
A "gay voice" is often the only obvious way of figuring out if a man is gay, (though it is also used to consciously communicate it) and consequently, "for many gay men, hating our voices is the last vestige of internalized homophobia," in the incisive words of Dan Savage.
The antidotes to what is often called self-stigma, or internalized stigma, are finding a group you can relate to, having a voice, and taking social action.
"The subtlety in which a woman's voice is used in conjunction with her body, that's mostly a result of the internalized stuff that's in advertisers in the same way it is the rest of us -- that men are the voices of authority and a woman's voice has power in so far as it's connected to her actual image".
The internalized shame scale manual.
