I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it. And in most cases, you might as well save your breath because the reporter had no shame anyway.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
