creep-shame

English

Alternative forms

• creep shame

Verb

creep-shame (third-person singular simple present creep-shames, present participle creep-shaming, simple past and past participle creep-shamed)

1. (transitive) To shame someone by characterizing them as a creep.
   • 2010 shonmao, December 17 on TwoXChromosomes Reddit

     The only time I feel comfortable dancing (club) is either by myself or with my lesbian friends. As an XY I have to deal with homophobia or creep-shaming.

   • 2011, Showdown: #MenCallMeThings versus The Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics, We Hunted The Mammoth:

     As one outraged Men’s Rights Redditor recently put it, in a comment with 30+ net upvotes: Creep shaming is probably one of the most insidious and anti-equality things you can do. The ability to label men as “creepy” is just one privilege that women enjoy, and a constant source of fear of ostracizing that all men must fear in our society.

   • 2012 Tiffani So I Creep: Men Who Don't Like Being Called Creepy Coffee Rhetoric

     Apparently the ability to“creep shame” is a special power men seem to think women have; used to ostracize them in the worst way

   • 2013 Jalon Caine The absurdity of creep shaming A Voice For Men
   • 2013 June 27, “It's Okay to Call a Guy Creepy”, in The Atlantic:

     When men complain about being "creep-shamed," or insist that the Tom Brady sketch accurately reflects reality, what they're really lamenting is a culture that is increasingly willing to honor women's right to be sexual -- and women's right to be safe.

   • 2014 Jessica Wakeman The Soapbox: Why “Creep Shaming” Is Total BS The Frisky
   • 2014 November 10, Don Macpherson, “Don Macpherson: Lessons from the Jian Ghomeshi affair”, in Montreal Gazette:

     We also have a reason to have a conversation with our sons about how every woman or girl deserves to be treated as our sons would want their mother or sister treated. And how a man who gets sexual gratification by resorting to power, physical or otherwise, deserves to be creep-shamed.

   • 2017 Perverting justice? Privacy ruling won't stop vigilantes 'addicted' to on-camera stings (Related Stories) CBC News

     Fraser Valley Creep Catchers taking credit for the arrest, police say they only creep shame