“With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.” MenTeachingVictimBlameCamouflageVictimizationBlame Me Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.” ArtPurposeProjectsPhotographyVictimExpectedEnterpriseCompassionateUnfortunateVigorousConcentratingVictimizationArt Photography Book:On photography Source: On photography
“The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.” PeopleFirstsLooksMayLongFacesPurposeValuesComfortAbuseVictimGenuineRecoveryAttractiveConvinceVictimization Author:Frederick Crews
“Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.” SelfAmericaNamesTermMoralCallingClaimsVictimCampaignsDebatePityRacistAmerican HistoryMulticulturalismDefiningEntitlementSelf PityGrievanceSexistRewritingVictimizationName CallingHomophobesRevisionismRewriting History Author:George Will
“I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.” PeopleThinkingSoulHelpingBodyVictimMovedHelping OthersSurvivorHealedMoved OnVictimizationSoul And Body Author:Stephanie Davis
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” WorldWayMadeHappensFatherResponsibilityHusbandOvercomingResponsibleVictimTraumaOver YouMy HusbandAnything Can HappenVictimizationGetting Over YouGet Over YourselfAbusive FatherBad Husband Author:Camille Paglia
“The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.” SelfMatterAbilityPlansDangerPromiseAbuseSafetyVictimRemainsGuaranteesRealisticCapabilityProtectiveHeartfeltPerpetratorsContingencyVictimizationBatteringBattered WomenContingency Plans Author:Judith Lewis Herman
“Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.” IfsHumansDoeMatterCarePainDiesHurtMillionsGroupsEmpathyVictimMiseryAbsenceBillionsJustifyChickensMiceRatsWho CaresDisregardDoes It MatterVictimizationSpeciesismRodentsIntentionally Hurt Author:Joan Dunayer
“Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.” FeelsMayHas BeensActionIndividualSocialBlackRealizingVictimAgentsCollectivesSpheresInitiativeOppressedPersonal LifePassivityIndividual LifeVictimizationCollective ActionChanges In Society Author:Shelby Steele
“If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.” IfsVictimTreatedNovelistsVictimhoodVictimization Author:Paulo Coelho