"Public Shaming" with Clare Stephens
October 30, 2025
46 min
1
392
Full
392 of 468
Episode 392 · October 30, 2025
"Public Shaming" with Clare Stephens
0:00 / 46:48
Excerpt playback isn’t available for this episode — use the full-episode link.
Search the Record
Moment search isn’t open for this episode yet
When it opens, you’ll be able to type any phrase and jump straight to the second it was said.
Josh Szeps Episodes Around October 30, 2025
Episode 392 of 468 — walk the feed in the order it was published.
46:48This episode"Public Shaming" with Clare Stephens
Summary
<p>Pile-ons, performative outrage, apology rituals, and public humiliation have become a blood sport over the past decade. What happened? Was it a moral panic? A byproduct of new communications technologies? Or a storm in a teacup - a well-intentioned overreach, exaggerated by anti-woke right-wingers?</p> <p><a>Clare Stephens</a> is a feminist journalist who has spent years at the coalface of cancel culture. She spent years at Australia’s biggest independent women’s media outlet, Mamamia, copping heat from all sides and watching digital mobs turn ordinary mistakes into existential crises.</p> <p>Now she’s written a novel about it, <em>The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done</em>, and created a podcast, <a href="https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68c7a48244d0096b8787a6ed">The Pile-On</a>. Clare and Josh unpack how cancel culture evolved, why it hit women differently from men, how shame works, and whether we’re beginning to find a healthier way of disagreeing online.</p> <p> </p>
Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.