There is, to adapt Jerry Lee Lewis, a whole lot of “shaming” going on. In recent months I have spotted “parent-shaming”, “single-shaming”, fat-shaming”, “skinny-shaming” and even “dog-shaming”. And that is to say nothing of the phrase with which it all began: “slut-shaming”. Perhaps we should start there. “Slut-shaming”, first identified in about 2012, is the practice of singling out women and attempting to make them feel ashamed for their behaviour or appearance, but mainly for being sexual. It amounts to calling them a “slut” (a fifteenth-century word meaning a woman of slovenly habits or “loose” morals), but with anonymity and the strength of the crowd behind you. Those who