don1carter
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- Aug 18, 2010
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I think it may have started with a quote from the movie "Stepbrothers," but I have heard the phrase "you're embarrassing yourself" used a lot lately, on TV talk shows and elsewhere. Am I wrong in thinking that the phrase makes no sense? Embarrassment, it seems to me, is a subjective feeling; so only I can impose it on myself. No matter how boorish or stupid my actions may be, if I don't feel embarrassed by them, then there is no embarrassment. For one person to say to another, "you're embarrassing yourself," seems illogical to me. "You should feel embarrassed" would be fine. Am I wrong? Have I just embarrassed myself?