Let's not forget that Miley's insta-historic VMAs performance last year drew outraged comment from many quarters, but perhaps most notably from the creator of the foam finger himself, who claimed she had demeaned his oversized invention.
'High Art' was perceived by the majority as desiccated, pretentious, irrelevant bullshit - a symbol of the worst traits of the posher classes - while on the other hand the demotic and popular pieces of art that spoke to this majority were regularly demeaned as being formally simplistic, or dismissed as sentimentally inclined, as if this were a fault in itself.
I feel demeaned as a woman; my own libido has now disappeared, crushed by years of rejection.
Why should I feel violated, uncomfortable and demeaned?
But the pornification of everything is everywhere still, insanely sexualised images of women still the norm: back in the day when we were sticking feminist messages on tube station ads that demeaned women, we thought the sheer archaic dirty-old-man backwardness of all that would bring advertisers to their senses – but it got worse.
Miliband said: "Michael Fallon is a decent man, but today I think he has demeaned himself and he has demeaned his office.
Following her election victory on Thursday, Shah criticised the campaign of her rival, George Galloway of the Respect party, saying that it had "demeaned democracy".
A security agreement entered into by both sides with some enthusiasm and a sense of shared destiny would have been stronger and potentially more enduring than one demeaned by haggling.
What had wearied her was drinking from black-only water-fountains, using black-only elevators, going to the back, standing aside, being demeaned in a hundred ways.
He told Lorenzo that his family would be demeaned if his son were to become a stonemason.
"Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless," he writes, "but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction".If this criticism of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia had come from an outsider a dyed-in-the-wool technophobe then nobody would have paid much attention.
