Comments on: BrenĂ© Brown: on Shame and Gender /2012/05/23/brene-brown-on-shame-and-gender/ A feminist pop culture adventure Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: Abed /2012/05/23/brene-brown-on-shame-and-gender/#comment-449863 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:33:37 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10732#comment-449863 Re: Emily, I’m a straight guy (from Pakistan :P) and I respect you and admire your courage. Respect yourself, as you fully deserve to, entirely and wholeheartedly, and ultimately you’ll see past (and perhaps even forgive) the small heartedness and fear that causes others to wrong themselves by treating you with disrespect.

Hope your doing well two years on :)

]]> By: Emily /2012/05/23/brene-brown-on-shame-and-gender/#comment-2292 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:42:10 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=10732#comment-2292 I am a transsexual Male to Female. My shame voice for years berated me because I wasn’t living up to the male role expectations. Finally, I am free to a great extent of that shame 2 1/2 years into my transition. But, now I am starting to see the effects of female shame in my life. I have an eating disorder I am working on and if I stand up for what I believe in and value, my shame voice calls me a drama queen, because women are to be seen and not heard. However having been raised male I have a strong sense of my human birthright to be treated with respect, since it is so important in the male world to respect other men. This causes a lot of problems when I interact with the world having this expectation for how I should be treated. Mostly with men who don’t want to respect me.

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