Sentences with phrase «into public shaming»

Thanks to the Internet, suppressed cultures now have a voice and using cultural references can quickly devolve into public shaming.

It often escalates into the public shaming of groups and persons.

Not exact matches

Loneliness has recently transformed from a quiet personal shame into a top public health menace.

It took the public's call for action after the Parkland shooting to shame Scott and the Florida Legislature into passing the state's first new gun restrictions in decades.

These snake oil salesmen need to be shamed into oblivion, certainly off the public stage.

Some stumbling blocks in the breastfeeding relationship that mamas may encounter include the modern societal view of breasts as solely sexual objects which often leads those in public places, including many churches, to shame mothers into hiding in restrooms or vehicles or at the very least using covers that make breastfeeding far more difficult and clumsy than it needs to be.

The answer to all public health ills is not to shame and frighten mothers into breastfeeding.

As a huge proponent of teaching kids that their bodies are their property, I'd never shame my kid into engaging with a random stranger out in public.

The city countered with a $ 100 million low - ball offer and a public relations campaign geared at shaming Brodsky into selling at a discount.

«It's a shame that they made so much progress in starting an investigation into this area, but were unable to follow this investigation through to completion,» Bill Mahoney, research coordinator at New York Public Interest Research Group, told City & State.

Integrate himself into Guy's social circle and carry with him the threat of exposure and public shame.

-- a public shaming that quickly escalates into an act of war between her, the sheriff (Woody Harrelson) and his dim - witted racist deputy (Sam Rockwell).

What is so special about The Miniaturist is that despite its delicious and unfamiliar period setting, its concerns are absolutely modern: privacy, sexuality, corruption, commerce, hypocrisy, race, public shaming... all woven into a tightly plotted story full of surprising twists.»

When Willoughby learns of the billboards, he blows a gasket, and it seems clear where the movie is headed: to a battle between the police and Mildred, the aggrieved citizen who has taken the law — or, at least, the power of public shame and coercion — into her own hands.

Even worse for Weingarten and the AFT, Duncan didn't take too kindly to her attempt to shame him into submission; he doubled down on his earlier remarks, arguing that the AFTs (and NEA's) defense of traditional teacher compensation policies «undercut the public's confidence in public education.»

So You've Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9781594634017 Ronson's examination of public shaming as a means of social control — from a writer shunned after being caught in the act of plagiarism to a woman forced into hiding over a single tweet — was named a best book of 2015 by the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

It's a shame you didn't get into a position to consolidate and make your loans eligible for credit towards the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

The only real shame is that so few of the general public will ever get to see or truly appreciate the time and dedication that goes into producing them.

Other members of the media should be shamed into doing the right thing, and if the corporate organs on our nightly network news choke (as is likely), the public should be told about it.

Isn't it a shame that so much effort and money goes into dreaming up scientifically implausible explanations that can bamboozle the ignorant public and convince them falsely that scientists are: a) corrupt and b) stupid.

They could put that sort of information into the public sphere and 1) influence purchasing decisions, 2) shame designers and manufacturers into improving their output, 3) create a parts inventory for people who would like to fix an item rather than throw it away.

One would think that if you could find a sympathetic reporter at a major daily newspaper to run a «Scientists won't release unchecked data, even after FOIA request» story, there might be some public shame that would come into play to elicit release of hidden information.

It seems to me the antithesis of mutual respect to try * in public * to shame Dr Schmidt into agreeing to give an appology for what he wrote * in private * before you will give the appology that you owe.

If public shaming is going to be the stick used to coerce larger employers into reducing their gender pay gap, then the reporting should be an accurate reflection of the gender pay and bonus disparity within the workplace.

The dissent highlighted the fact that the funeral was indeed central to the Church's strategy for attracting public attention as it had made a point of issuing a press release (stating that Matthew Snyder had «died in shame, not honor, for a fag nation cursed by God») before attending the funeral in order to make sure that it would turn into a media event.