Mum-shaming, fat-shaming, slut-shaming and engagement ring-shaming (yes, it's "a thing"): with all this shame being tossed around, it always seems surprising that people don't have any. But listen to me, casually "shaming" the shameless. If it weren't for the word being elasticised to such a ludicrous degree and used to muffle anything once known as "criticism", I might be able to work myself up into the state of perma-outrage we're all now required to be in.

LA actress Jameela Jamil is the latest to add her name to this list, speaking in an interview over the weekend about how, after recovering from anorexia, she was "nationally fat-shamed for months" when prescription steroids she was taking for asthma made her gain weight. Her eating issues stemmed from growing up in an "incredibly fat-phobic" family, where "jutting hip bones were seen as a sign of peak brilliance both at home and at school".

Some forms of shaming really do bring on the red mist, though. And while it's hard to get too worked up about "degree-shaming" or "sunset-shaming" (victims of which have posted too many sunset pictures on social media), I do find "mum-shaming" – publicly judging and criticising a woman's mothering skills – a particularly repulsive pastime. Why? Because it's both a form of shaming that has always existed, and one that can now be supercharged on social media.

The Duchess of Sussex would doubtless agree. Since she welcomed her first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in May, Meghan Markle has been consistently mum-shamed. So much so that, according to the top PR manager Tom Bourlet, Buckingham Palace should be doing more to protect her "motherly image".