To avoide doing or even thinking about something you want to do very much. The main reason for not doing it is fear of guilt or losing the respect from a parent or peer. In fact, you make yourself believe that you really don't even want to do the thing you are repressing.
Shasha: "Cindy, do you want to go clubbing and get wasted? Maybe we will pick up some guys."
Cindy:" No, my mom won't approve and dancing and guys shouldn't be appealing to me anyway. I think I will stay home, knit and drink water. Yeah! that sounds much more fun!"
Not acknowledging negative feelings is true repression. Not allowing other people to acknowledge theirs because you don't acknowledge yours is the worst kind of repression/oppression.
For someone that claimed to be such a free spirit, repression was something she used at many oppurtune times to benefit from doing so.
Emotional repression is a way females try and come off as tough, badass, and charming without coming off as weak. Females who think that kindness is weakness tend to think that emotional repression is the way to go.
The girl child had now mastered emotional repression and was sure that people would quit being mean to her in her new tough, badass, and charming facade.
The Bible Thumping Belt is such a place of sexual repression. They're a bunch of abstinence loving, contraceptive hating, sex toy despising, missionary doing, homophobic freaks if you ask me.