I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.