Word: victimness
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...alleged ringleader of the group, who has been identified as Roland K, a 74-year-old former developer, testified in a Bavarian court this week that they didn't intend to kidnap the victim, identified as James A. He said he and his friend and fellow investor, 60-year-old Wilhelm D, met with the investment specialist in the town of Speyer in June 2009 for a "final chat" about getting their money back. But when they realized that their savings were gone for good, he said they became enraged. (See the top 10 crime stories...
She’s a very serious, very keen student who is very much appreciated and valued in Kirkland House,” said Tom Conley, Master of Kirkland House. He confirmed that the victim is still able to walk after the accident...
Tang said she later e-mailed the victim, who told Tang that she would “be okay” in 10 days...
Indeed, in the shared language of the media, battered women double as entertainment. More often than not, the female is figured as a perpetual victim: as the passive, the “done to,” and the “acted upon” rather than the actor. Women cannot represent but are, instead, represented, their subjectivity eroded to the point of death. Seducing the audience with the macabre-made-sexy, such images remain complicit with the stereotypic representations they relate, reinforcing, rather than disrupting, cultural myths of the feminine as immanence and contingency. Replayed again and again...
Case in point: in its eighth season, America’s Next Top Model aired a “crime scene” photo shoot, where each contestant appeared as a supine victim, having been variously electrocuted, decapitated, or stripped of internal organs by a fellow model. The judges received these images, unequivocal in their eroticization of the brutalized female body, with banal one-liners, extolling their elegance, beauty, and “fierceness.” One chastised a contestant for lacking “some sort of spark,” opining “you just gave...