Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pars-Avila, a victim advocate in the Violence Recovery Program (VRP) at the Fenway Community Health Center, spoke about his experiences in the past two years at VRP, where he said he has heard "way too many" horror stories...
...would later transform into one of the court's most progressive jurists, winning him praise from victim's right advocacy groups and scorn from the conservatives who had originally supported his appointment...
...comparisons between the deaths of Billy Jack Gaither, a 39-year-old Alabama man, and that of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. It's pretty hard not to. Both gay men, they were brutally slaughtered by young toughs who freely admitted they were motivated by their animosity toward their victim's sexuality. Gaither's killers told police they plotted his killing after the mild-mannered textile worker made a sexual advance. After luring him to secluded boat ramp February 19, the killers bludgeoned him with an ax handle and then put him on a pyre of burning tires. In Wyoming...
...Reject rejects winter and denies its existence. The Reject hates mercury and judges temperature by sunshine. Oftentimes without jacket, scarf or gloves, The Reject can be spotted dashing through the Yard, hands buried in a barn jacket--a true fashion victim. Living such a risky lifestyle, The Reject can often become a Sniffler. FM advice to The Reject: www.weather.com...
...pleased to hear that Ireland was defending the story of a possible rape victim but surprised that she was so stinging in her comments about the president. Feminists' hesitancy to condemn Bill Clinton for actions similar to those for which they had rightly vilified Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood has been extremely troublesome to me. I understand the reason for the double standard, though: Packwood and Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side...