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Humiliation

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings for Silver-haired Boomers

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.02.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Ralph Stanley, Humiliation, Fitness and Exercise, Silver Lining, Mindfulness, Aging Baby Boomers, The Raspberries, Aging Gracefully, Aging Humor, Old Age Security, Video, Fifty News
Michael Sigman

For millions of boomers passing from 50-something to 60-something, day-to-day life begins to seem like a series of small humiliations.

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The Most Embarrassing Moment You Never Had in The '80s -- But I Did

Jenny Isenman | Posted 07.31.2012 | Women
Read More: Funny, Bad Boys, Jenny From the Blog, Xanadu, Embarrassing Moments, Skateland, Roller Skate, Eighties, Humiliation, The Suburban Jungle, Roller Derby, 80s, Parody, Couples Skate, Jenny Isenman, Nostalgia, Humor and Satire, 1970?S, 1980?S, Becoming-Fearless, Women News
Jenny Isenman

You know how whenever you're feeling a little big for your britches, you'll get an earth-shatteringly embarrassing flashback that puts you right back in your place?

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How Shame Destroys Relationships

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 07.01.2012 | Women
Read More: Infidelity, Marriage, Shame, Depression, Divorce, Bullying, Sex, Dating, Teens, Parenting, Choldren, Humiliation, Anxiety, Women News
Barbara Greenberg

Shame, one of the most difficult of all emotions, can slowly eat away at your heart, soul, stomach lining and relationships.

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Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?

Ethan Casey | Posted 03.14.2012 | World
Read More: Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Muslim Americans, u.s. Marines, Humiliation, U.S. Military, War Crimes, Marines, Pakistanis, Muslims, American Muslims, American Soldiers, Atrocity Videos, Atrocities, Kashmir, Taliban, Afghanistan, India, Torture, World News
Ethan Casey

What is there to think about, anyway? What is there to say, really, except that there's absolutely no excuse? No excuse for the policy makers and officers, but neither is there one for the brutalized young perpetrators.

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Auto-address on Behalf of Possible Residents of Kepler-22b

Tim Terhaar | Posted 02.08.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Kepler 22b, Space Exploration, Exploitation, Galileo Galilei, Aliens, Sigmund Freud, Humiliation, Animals, Charles Darwin, Weird News News
Tim Terhaar

The reason for Kepler-22b's fame is that it might sustain living organisms. But what if it does? I suspect that if life were discovered the first thing we'd want to do after we'd recovered from the initial awe would be to exploit it.

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When Women Are Abused: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Shadow of Shame

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 10.27.2011 | Women
Read More: Nafissatou Diallo, Shame, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Humiliation, Anne Sinclair, Cyrus Vance, Sexual Abuse, Tristane Banon, Women News
SaraKay Smullens

Hundreds of thousands of dollars later Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his wife Anne Sinclair, and his lawyers are rejoicing at what an August 24th New York T...

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The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nobodies, Predation, Indignity, Dignitarian, Dignity, Humiliation, North Africa, Movement, Indignities, Middle East, Sexism, Predatory, Unrest, Racism, Justice, Somebodies, Rankism, World News
Robert Fuller

The weak are not as impotent as they once were. Using weapons of mass destruction and strategies of mass disruption, the disenfranchised can bring modern life to a stop. Humiliation is a time bomb.

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Pacing In The Shadows Of Our Finger-Pointing

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The Shadow, Psychopathology, Tucson Shooting, Tucson Massacre, Arianna Huffington, Carl Jung, Humiliation, Jared Loughner, Human Ecology, Arizona Shooting, Media Responsibility, Era of Greater Civility, President Obama, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

To be therapeutic, addressing our differences must include seeking truth, both the subjective and the factual. This can only be done when we see our own mistakes, and recognize how much in common we all have.

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Why Are Americans So Angry? Arizona and Beyond

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Pointing Fingers, President Obama, Conservatives, Liberals, Politics-of-Humiliation, Righteousness, Violence, Blame, Tuscon Tragedy, Humiliation, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

Why we are in effect ignoring the widespread nature of the acts and attitudes of violence throughout our human climate in general?

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Hello. I Am Now Going To Touch Your Junk

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Airport Security, Full-Body Scanners, TSA Security, Humiliation, Thanksgiving Travel, Groping, Travel News
Mark Morford

Sweet Jesus, we should have thought of this ages ago. Why didn't we think of this ages ago? It seems so obvious. You want to ignite some delicious...

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What is Rankism and Why Do We "Do" It?

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Colonialism, Dignitarian, Ableism, Indignity, Dignity, Sexism, Homophobia, Ageism, Racism, Classism, Humiliation, Rankism, Politics News
Robert Fuller

Rankism is an assertion of superiority. It typically takes the form of putting others down. It's what "Somebodies" do to "nobodies." It turns out that rankism is the source of most man-made suffering.

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Obsessions: Small and Monstrous

Thomas Scheff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Iraq War, Obsession, Anger, Wwi, Compulsion, War, Delusion, Humiliation, Healthy Living News
Thomas Scheff

Humiliation can spiral to the point that it haunts us. Emotions, at their core, are bodily states of arousal. It is bodily arousal over which one has no direct control that makes the obsession painful and compulsive.

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Facing Your Fears

Nicole Williams | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Fear, Fear-of-Failure, Disappointment, Embarassment, Selfhelp, Humiliation, Confidence, Fear of Failure, Self-Help, Healthy Living News
Nicole Williams

Your fears are uniquely yours and yours alone (I'm not sure if that's good news or bad) and there are thousands of possibilities of what you might be afraid of.

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