Word: victimhood
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...Asnes, powerlessness, victimhood and the moral high ground are elements of a single package, while power, oppression and moral corruption are inextricably joined as well. She complains that in Israel today, the Jews are “not in the familiar position of victim”; she is actually mourning the fact that the Jews in Israel have power...
...overdog, the device risks showing weakness: pictures of American POWs in Vietnam undermined rather than galvanized support at home. But the Israelis, who in the first intifadeh suffered the ill p.r. effects of pictures of their soldiers firing on rock-throwing protesters, have learned that a measured message of victimhood is important to the well armed too. In the early days of this intifadeh, the Israeli government benefited from horrific images of the mob lynching of two Israeli soldiers...
...says Heide, we're also alone in the world when we grieve over school violence. "Incidents like this are either unheard-of or incredibly rare in other countries. We have a message in our popular culture that if kids are unhappy, this is a way to express victimhood. So if kids have access to guns, they will carry out that message...
...unintended consequences stirs steadily beneath the surface of Faithless. Its largest impact is on Marianne's nine-year-old daughter, devastated by the breakup of a seemingly contented marriage, who then, of all horrendous things, is invited to join her father in suicide. It is her innocent victimhood--her betrayal by heedless adults--that emerges most clearly and movingly in the film...
...Against Boys, conservative ideologue Christina Hoff Sommers blames liberal women for the boy crisis. Movement feminists, she says, cornered the market on victimhood for girls--and thus victimized boys. Gender-equity programs in schools only benefit girls, while boys are seen as "protosexists" and potential harassers. Sommers claims that most of the women in boys' lives--their teachers and counselors (and presumably their mothers)--don't understand masculinity and are threatened by it. Boys, she says, suffer when they're taught by women who want them to be in touch with their feelings; boys express themselves best through play...