{"id":58,"date":"2016-12-05T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/nicolettacremona\/?p=58"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:59:52","slug":"shamegame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/nicolettacremona\/2016\/12\/05\/shamegame\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shame Game &#8211; What is it All About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/nicolettacremona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2016\/12\/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/nicolettacremona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2016\/12\/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/nicolettacremona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2016\/12\/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We <em>shame<\/em> on those who are fat, yet we <em>shame<\/em> on those who are thin. If you aren\u2019t model potential you are beauty <em>shamed<\/em> or flawed. Anyone that has, causal relationship or sleeps around is <em>slut-shamed<\/em> or <em>stud-shamed<\/em>, and if you don\u2019t you can be <em>shamed<\/em> for being frigid, a spinster, crazy cat lady, tragic or forever alone. Glamorous housewives are Stepford gym bunnies and gold diggers. Men with young wives are perverts and the wives mail order. Women with younger partners are ever <em>cougar-shamed<\/em> or <em>toyboy-shamed<\/em>. Business success means being <em>power-shamed<\/em> and failure\u00a0means being<em> poor-shamed<\/em>. \u00a0If you travel as a youth you are <em>indie-shamed<\/em>, and mocked for being spiritual or adventurously living life on the edge. Geeks are chic, but nerds are <em>shamed<\/em> for being clever. There are <em>food-shames<\/em> in multitudes: from <em>vegan-shame<\/em> and <em>meat-shame<\/em>\u00a0to f<em>ast-food-shame, kale-shame, carb-shame, protein shake-shame<\/em>, and <em>shame<\/em> of not eating. We <em>shame<\/em> on those with fame, and we <em>shame<\/em> on those who flop\u2026 We <em>shame<\/em> on the leading politicians in the country and claim we could do their job better.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We even <em>shame<\/em> on how they eat a bacon sandwich because it makes us feel better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For race, there\u2019s a <em>shame<\/em> for every colour, \u00a0and religious beliefs we scapegoat to Jesus freaks and others. There\u2019s <em>gay-shame<\/em>,<em> love-shame, sex-shame<\/em> and shame for fighting for gender equality. Fart-shame&#8230; oh yes, we\u2019ve got this low. \u00a0Society has ways of <em>shaming<\/em> people for being sensitive, <em>shame<\/em> for being emotionless, <em>sham<\/em>e for wanting attention or talking about taboo topics. Parents are <em>shamed<\/em> for the way they bring up children, breastfeeding in public and what they let their children wear. \u00a0Mental illnesses are <em>shamed<\/em> and shunned away, and disabilities <em>shamed<\/em> too. We <em>shame<\/em> on those who are victims, and we <em>shame<\/em> on those who troll. The only problem is, we don\u2019t realise that we are doing it as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is when will this shame game stop? Is it getting worse now that social media is such a big part of our lives? Not only can we shame the people we know personally and see in the streets, we can shame strangers across the world at the click of a few buttons. Isn\u2019t that a scary thought\u2026 I don\u2019t know about you, but it sounds like some sort of Black Mirror reality to me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of this blog is to uncover some of the types of shame in our society today and the issue with these being so prominent\u00a0so that hopefully this shame game and form of cyber bullying can be forced to a halt. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shame on those who are fat, yet we shame on those who are thin. If you aren\u2019t model potential you are beauty shamed or flawed. 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