"It's been like, 'Got to be able to fit into that without being embarrassed'.
"The sisters talk about their own experience, and people can ask questions without being embarrassed".
It is more than 30 years since Sue Townsend created Adrian Mole, the tormented Leicester teenager who longs to be recognized as an intellectual, have his poetry commissioned by the BBC, win the love of Pandora Braithwaite, and get through the day without being embarrassed by his mildly feckless parents or being bullied out of 20p by the school thug, Barry Kent.
(Ron, from Ron and Fez, recently described The Da Vinci Code as a chick flick of a book, but one that men can read without being embarrassed. I never read the book nor saw the movie, so I can't speak to that).
You can't even have guests from overseas without being embarrassed to take them out.
I wish the Speedo police would leave me alone and the culture would let me be six years old again, standing in my skimpy suit, without being embarrassed.
Despite the insanity of 2017, it was also the year I learned to love the things I love without being embarrassed about it.
He achieved it with "nerve, courage, and a great deal of luck," supplemented by "a rifle and shotgun, a road atlas, and Travelguide, a listing of places in America where Negroes can stay without being embarrassed, insulted, or worse".
In the TEDx talk, Gaines also laid out some ideas about how to buy condoms without being embarrassed, tips such as buying cheese or birthday cards with the rubbers or going to a sex shop because the male contraceptives will be "the tamest thing in there".
Teachers who can teach us the facts without being embarrassed or judgemental", said Chan Kit Sze, 18 from Malaysia who is attending the youth forum and the Ministerial Consultation as one of fifteen youth reporters from the region.
