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Key Words and Phrases
how dare she? | how inappropriate!
taboo | not socially acceptable
talking bad | gossiping
as soon as possible | quickly
without exception | no matter what
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What is considered taboo in my country?
Oh my God, smoking women or women that smoke. Here, if a man is smoking, everybody's like, okay. But if a woman is smoking, everybody without exception starts looking at her, talking bad about her, saying, oh my God, look at her. Look at what she's doing. Oh my God, how dare she? Oh my god, she's smoking. Everybody without exceptions starts looking at her and judging her, which I think is a very, very, very negative point that needs to be changed as soon as possible. Although smoking is a bad habit and it's unhealthy, but this is weird. A woman that cheats, that lies, that steals somebody else's properties, that does bad things is in my country a better woman than a good woman that smokes. Look how weird this is. So yeah, that's it.
