I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
It's very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show.
Smiling without good reason is demeaning.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
