what does doffer mean in english? Doffer A doffer is someone who clears full bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.
Many of us donât even realise that in our day to day behaviour and language we are discriminating against some groups of people such as those with a learning disability. It is impossible to measure the impact that stigma has on individuals or the hurt it creates for people.
There is a powerful stigma attached to suicide. Until the 1900s suicide was viewed as a sin rather than an illness. Stigma is a type of rejection that suicide survivors may feel. Athena du Pre explains stigma,  stigma refers to a type of social rejection in which the stigmatized person is treated as dishonorable or is ignored altogether(pg.209).