Usl At The Stadium Summary

The two essays’ “Usl at the Stadium” by Rivka Galchen and “From is Shaming Necessary?” by Jennifer Jacquet express that society should not shame individuals if it is something that is not sever. Because the shamers’ tend to shame others because they feel like there is no other alternative or way for people to see or understand them. Shaming others can put them in dark spot that can be hard for them to get out of. If shaming is to be used as a punishment then it should be used for serious problems like drunk driving and criminal offenses.

Frist, on the subject of “Usl at the Stadium” there is a character named Usl. Usl had fallen asleep at a Yankees game. As he was sleep commentators turned against him. They had put him on the jumbo Tron,

and everyone had seen him. Because of social media even more people had seen him, he had become an internet sensation. Soon people started to shame Usl for sleep at the game. People were mad because they felt like Usl was sleeping and wasting money. Usl had tried to sue the commentators that he thought were his friends. But that made the shame become worse. They were calling him a fat attention seeker and a triple loser. The shamers’ even told Usl to kill himself. Usl started to think people were just disgusting. He thought this because once in a while people do fall asleep at baseball games, but are never shamed for it. Shaming Usl for falling asleep during the baseball game was mindless and useless. He did what every human being does and that is sleeping.
Comparatively, this goes along with “From is Shaming Necessary?” by Jennifer Jacquet.

In the essay Jacquet states that shaming is not preferable, but people feel that it’s the only alternative, because they feel like it is part of their duty and values for them to say something. Even though nobody, but the people close to Usl really know him. The people on social media do not. The shamers’ only understand that he fallen asleep at a game and people pay money to go to that game. So, they get on YouTube or twitter and say all these hurtful thing because they feel like maybe by doing this someone out there would understand and jump on board with them. Because there really is no formal way or reason to punish people then people will use shame. Usl was not never in the wrong. People just wanted that attention and a reason to start something. Like with monkey see monkey do, people started to just jump in and attack Usl. If people were going to shame Usl it should have been a more suitable reason other than sleeping at a baseball

game.
Furthermore, in Usl at the Stadium there is a change in Usl behavior. Usl felt like everybody was against him and was worried about the comments people were making about him. After time passed Usl had stop going on the internet and then the radio. Because he was constantly worrying he started to lose sleep. Because he was tried he started to snap on the people that loved and cared about him. For example, after everything that happen his mother would say that she loved him. Usl had thought that his mother was very loving. And that if he was a father he would be a bad one, because good mothers are bad. He was blaming his mother for him fallen asleep because she was too caring. He also started to think about going into the woods for ten to fifteen years. Because by then people would forget about him. Then when his boss tried to help him feel better Usl stated yelling at him. Instead of his boss yelling back or fire him. The boss said that he was going to tell him something that he did not want to hear. His boss told him that he loved and cared for him. Which made Usl breakdown in tears. The shame that he was getting was not refining his behavior, but making it worse.
In contrast, if shaming is to be used as a punishment, then it should be used for serious problems like drunk driving and criminal offenses.

Usl was just taking a nap at a baseball game and was severally shamed because sleep was punishment to those that shamed him. If that is true than what he did can be compared to drunk driving and criminal offense? But it is not true because drunk driving and criminal offense is an act harmful not only to that individual but also to a community and society. Usl sleeping did not harm anyone. That was his money to waste, not anyone else. The people that shamed him had no right to do that. They made fun of his image and character. Jacquet stated that shaming can change people’s behavior for example drunk driving and criminal offense because those people could hurt or even kill someone. So if they are shamed for the bad things they have done, then maybe they will think twice before hurting someone. Usl was just sleeping and dreaming about life and not bothering anyone Ultimately, Usl was a fictional character based on a real person named Andrew Rector. Rector had went through everything Usl did in April of 2014. Till this day because of social media the video of Rector sleeping and suing commentators can be found on the internet. In the video the commentators were making fun way too harshly of him and the comments on the video are still there, three years later. It is upsetting and shocking to know that this person life was destroyed by

people who did not even know him or why he was sleeping. Anybody could be sleep at the game, but they chose him because they wanted to feed off the attention, as long as it was not them. Both essay’s connects to the real world, that there are people out there that are severely punished because society feels like it is their duty to go out and shame others without understanding the real reasons of their actions. The dream that Usl was having that got him shamed felt like real life, just like the shaming.