as in self-loathing
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There was some internal kind of self-hate, cultural hate in some ways.
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Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Hot With a Vengeance shows why beauty should be a tool of self-expression, not self-hate.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 June 2024
And then the awful demons of self-hate and self-contempt, a hugely negative self-image, took its place in the center of the victim’s being. . . .
—Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 7 May 2024
When offered as just-in-time tools within popular social media platforms like Tumblr and Discord, these programs reduce near-term ratings of hopelessness and self-hate and increase desires to stop self-harming, with effects considered large within the scientific community.
—Jessica Schleider, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
Waters’ antipathy toward C.J., much like John Claggart’s hostility toward Billy Budd, has a strong element of self-hate.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Hot With a Vengeance shows why beauty should be a tool of self-expression, not self-hate.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 June 2024
And then the awful demons of self-hate and self-contempt, a hugely negative self-image, took its place in the center of the victim’s being. . . .
—Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 7 May 2024
When offered as just-in-time tools within popular social media platforms like Tumblr and Discord, these programs reduce near-term ratings of hopelessness and self-hate and increase desires to stop self-harming, with effects considered large within the scientific community.
—Jessica Schleider, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
Waters’ antipathy toward C.J., much like John Claggart’s hostility toward Billy Budd, has a strong element of self-hate.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
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