SIMRAN MUKHERJEE

“Judging a person on how flustered they appear in the face of a shaming is a truly strange and arbitrary way of forming an opinion on someone.   •”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed: the hilarious and unnerving real-life exploration of being found out on social media

“It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a ‘feeling’, for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed: the hilarious and unnerving real-life exploration of being found out on social media

“[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Shame internalized can lead to agony.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed