...This chapter uses the case of Black gay men to explore how male femininity is often denigrated among gay communities. Drawing on popular memes from social media and ethnographic observations with a group of young Black gay men in Los Angeles, I show how bottom shaming is central to policing...

... argues that public apologies face a problem of “mission creep.” apologies Govier Trudy shame Verwoerd Wilhelm Walker Margaret Urban Cooper Amy and apology MeToo movement Cooper Christian apology third parties moral repair forgiveness shame For years, I was a connoisseur of public apologies...

... depiction as the hallmark of pornography, and shame and degradation as the hallmark of obscenity. The book's thesis is that pornography becomes obscene when it can be the source of a degraded view of humanity. It has also highlighted the difference between the degradation of hate speech and the degradation...

... evaluate where such participation might become disproportionate. The chapter argues that audiences are unlikely to punish excessively when they seek to generate feelings of guilt and productive shame in those who are their targets. Attempts to non-productively humiliate, on the other hand, seem likely...

...Expanding on the notion of the primal “brown body” mediating gay modernity, this chapter argues that this brown body (frequently, though not exclusively, embodied as “Latino”) mediates gay male shame. Andy Warhol’s film, Screen Test #2, Douglas Crimp’s essay on that film, “Mario...

... perpetuate shame and stigma concerning sex work and divert resources from empowerment programs that could actually address the abuses sex workers face; fundamentalist religious leaders who target sex work as a threat to the moral fabric of African societies; and African government officials who wield...

...; it aims, in other words, to enable these agents to be at home in their social worlds. In these comments, I present two kinds of challenges that Lu’s account faces. Both challenges have their source in forms of shame and fear that are apt to discourage socially privileged agents from participating...

... overcome by hard work, independent resilience, strong cultural ties, and survival without complaint. Meanwhile, images of African American trauma and despair produced an unstable narrative of state shame and crisis owing to a long national history of black racial exclusion. Whereas stories involving...

...This chapter focuses on audiences' responses to how makeover candidates are represented on the shows according to axes of distancing and self-adjusting identification. It asks how audiences understand surveillance and shame in the process of the candidate's makeover, and to what extent they adopt...

... categories. Yet these young men's identification with global gey ideals is complicated by the strong role family connection and honor plays in their life. For them, coming out as "gey" can mean abandoning family connections or risking bringing shame to their loved ones. Capitalism Connectivity Gays gey...

... with the explanations for the increase in regulation of pornography. It then looks at the surge in the production of pornography in the 1740s and goes on to discuss how obscenity regulation became the subject of civil law. It also explores how the new combination of shame and access increased public concern over...