Shame is a reality of every culture. It expresses the norms and values of a
culture. It can be expressed overtly or
covertly and with varying degrees of harshness, but it is always there.
When someone publically calls out others for “body shaming”
them, they are not truly against the use of shame. Rather they want to counter-shame those are
trying to shame them for having an unattractive/non-normal body. It is an attempt to re-direct the values of
the culture away from the value of maintaining attractive appearance,
athleticism and health and toward the value of being sensitive toward the
feelings of others for their non-conforming bodies.
When a group of people has the power to shame others, they
have what I will call the “shame scepter”. When a woman dresses immodestly in public,
she is holding the shame scepter that feminism has given her. Her power to shame those who would call her
out on being immodest is more powerful than those who would try to shame her
for being immodest. It happens in a
society where the value for her freedom of choice and sexual freedom is more
important than considering the sexual power that her body has on others. The shame scepter goes where the values of
the culture go and shifts where the values of the culture shift.
Feminists are particularly skilled at wielding shame and
have held the shame scepter for many decades. Feminists deny male and female nature,
and at the same time never call out women for being too sensitive toward their
real and felt needs, only men. Feminists
will shame men for being insensitive to women when men stand in the way of
women’s felt needs. At the same time feminists
will shame men for being too sensitive when men stand up for their felt needs. So feminists
use the shame scepter to simultaneously deny masculinity and exploit masculinity
into supporting feminism.
The latest incident with theWonder Woman movie was the theater
provoking a reaction from certain men, and the feminist left using the shame
scepter that they wield back on those men.
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