Is Shame a healthy tool for social change?

jesset77 · 2022-06-03T00:38:26+00:00

This video does not evince any clear favoring of any particular gender, I feel it makes very strong points for male egalitarians against feminists, as well as for feminists against right wingers.

It also does a great job focusing less on recrimination for abuse, and more on what properties of the abuse affect the victim, and how a victim of abuse can take ownership in their own healing process instead of jumping to learned helplessness or blame.

The-Author · 2022-06-03T11:09:07+00:00

Shame can be used for social change but it has to be used very carefully. Shame only works if there is a clear and reasonable way back from being shamed to being a normal functioning member of society again.

If there is no way back from being shamed or the process for becoming a member of society/ the in-group is too much then this can easily cause an out-group to form against your group specifically.

Being shamed especially for something you passionately believe in is a very good way to cause a person to become angry and resentful also.

Not to mention shaming doesn't encourage a person to really change but only to hide their true beliefs from people who can't be trusted. That's how trump got elected. A lot of people liked what he was saying but were too afraid to publicly say they agreed because of the social pressure/ shaming that was going on against trump and people who agreed with him. So they waited until they were in the voting booths to express their true opinion.

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