Remember Gomer Pyle, the hapless and saintly TV marine? His philosophical lexicon was limited, but it included two all-purpose expressions: Surprise, surprise, surprise! and Shame, shame, shame! The ...
When Valerie Starks, a mother from Denver, found out that her 13-year-old daughter was posing as an older teenager to post raunchy photographs to the Web, she took to social media to teach her a ...
Remember Gomer Pyle, the hapless and saintly TV marine? His philosophical lexicon was limited, but it included two all-purpose expressions: Surprise, surprise, surprise! and Shame, shame, shame! The ...
Shame is one of the basic emotions, and it is normal and necessary for all of us to survive in the world. Other emotions — joy, distress, fear, and anger all have survival value, but fear, anger, and ...
A Christian philosopher pushes back on attempts to rid ourselves of this unloved emotion. In a dramatic way, Auden was recognizing a truth that even most non-Christians affirm: Human beings possess an ...
The myriad ways that overweight women are body-shamed has received extensive media coverage in recent years. Doctors fat-shame their patients during routine exams. Fans fat-shame celebrities who post ...
Gemma J. Schneider ’23, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Pforzheimer House. It was a group of about 15 kids having dinner by the Charles River. They were around my age and, as I imagined, probably ...
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, by Cathy O’Neil (Crown: 2022), 272 pages. Cathy O’Neil is a brilliant mathematician, erstwhile MIT prof and Wall Street quant, and former ...
Conservatives regularly overestimate the beneficial effects of shame. Shame provokes response in the form of impulse, not long term planning. A person who is ashamed isn't going to think, "I'd better ...
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