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This made it hard to continue the perceived self flagellation to little gain.

Watch out, you might lose all your karma for interrupting the Bay Area self flagellation.

Wow... How did HN become a den of self-righteous, humorless self-flagellation.

I'm not going bother arguing with him because really what's the point, this self-flagellation obviously gets him off and as usual it's all about him.

If you think that recognizing one's own privilege is about self-flagellation, you really, really don't understand the concept.

It seems that a trend is developing of labeling earnest introspection as "self-flagellation.

Acknowledging that you were born with certain advantages, and that said advantages make you blind to the difficulties that people who are not like you face, is a weird thing to call "self-flagellation".

Various horror stories were recounted by female bounceyball players and a new round of self-flagellation began among those in the industry.

There was a reason why Huxley picked an insecure religious fundamentalist with a fondness for self-flagellation and fear of his own sexuality to contrast with the Brave New World.

The most important things, I think, are to be mindful, to experiment, and to choose a lifestyle that is enjoyable and sustainable, rather than one of puritannical self-flagellation and inevitable binging.