Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.
When insurer RSA agrees to pay scandalous underwriting fees of £25m on a zero-risk rights issue, make it a better offer; if its board declines, embarrass it by going public.
The revelation is likely to embarrass the bank governor, Mark Carney, who has overhauled the central bank's operations and promised greater transparency over its decision-making.
"Isn't it best to step down on a point of principle, but don't you embarrass yourself if you start launching into a tirade about many other things, when you come from a position of having never held elected office?" he said.
Writing in The Star, commentator Suhaimi Aznam even suggested Anwar had invented the sodomy allegation to embarrass the government – and labelled him a drama queen.
"The president is being threatened to embarrass and frustrate her efforts to fight corruption," Mpinganjira, a veteran politician, said.
A majority of Scottish MPs voted against the government on the issue, and the SNP sought to embarrass the first ministerm Jack McConnellm over this yesterday in the Scottish parliament.
Maliki had become convinced early in the civil war that Assad was trying to undermine his regime as a way to embarrass the Americans, and the evidence he saw in 2009 from the meeting in Damascus took his loathing of the Syrian leader to a whole new level.
Paul, gesturing toward the acrimony that persists in the Senate even after the vote made passage of the USA Freedom Act a foregone conclusion, said his Republican opponents were rooting for a terrorist attack to embarrass him.
Frankly, my concern is less will they embarrass me than might I, by dressing like a hobo embarrass them.
Disclosure of the data breach is likely to embarrass the Australian government after controversial mandatory data retention laws were passed last week.
