I suspect that most of us share Dworkin's greater fear of shaming. I know that it has been the much greater fear in my past. I endured physical bullying from other boys in school, but that was not as distressing as the loss of moral legitimacy that I felt from being shamed, usually by girls. I seemed to have no psychic defenses against that for many years as a younger man. It was only with the slow development of a sense of personal moral legitimacy that came from exhaustive analysis of my own character and actions, that I gained an immunity to the shaming that one regularly receives from feminists as an equality advocate.