Stigma
- "Middlesex, Eng." Penguin Book 1984
- 174 p.
The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority al share one decisive characteristic; they are all socially abnormal', and therefore in danger of being considered less than human. Whether ordinary people react hu rejection, by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarrassment, their main concern is with such an individual's deviance, not with the whole of his personality.