Similarities Between Shame And Guilt

Shame and Guilt are two types of awareness about yourself. It appears to be similar to each other but in fact, they are two very different from each other. They are two very different terms to describe the attitude toward women. Guilt is a consciousness that one person has committed to break the code. It is an awareness that you fail to meet your actions toward the standard of expectations. The expectations include law, social standard or custom. For example, you stole a movie from store, but you got away with it. However, you start to feel guilty for stealing the movie because of society had established that stealing is crime. You may end up to confess to the crime because of your guilt is too strong to handle.
Shame is called by serious flaw in your characteristics. It leads to the failure of awareness to measure up to your expectations. To feel shame, it requires recognition of your self-awareness. For example, you decided to wear a cute skirt to the party but during the party, a man started at your butt. You start to feel shame for wearing the cute …show more content…
Women are conditioned to be self-conscious about her actions. It leads to sexism in the classroom setting, even the people are not aware of the surrounding in the classroom. Bartky has mentioned that in the classroom, women are less likely to be called on and answer more factual questions compared to male in the same class. Because of the society’s established on classroom setting’s expectations, women are conditioned to feel shame for receiving education. She was expected to be quiet and is more liable to put her head down and apologize to the professor for the poor quality of the paper that she had turned in. Ignoring the fact that the paper turn out perfectly acceptable, while males just handed the paper in and did not apologize for his quality of paper. In turn, the society had thought women to keep moral clean to be accepted in the