Word: victimness
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...writings--against pornography in particular--dramatically influenced and often polarized the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said...
This time she's Silvia, a U.N. interpreter with a murky agenda and half the goons of an African country on her slim tail. Sean Penn is Keller, the federal agent assigned to figure out what she's hiding. Is she simply a victim? Or is grief driving her to assassination...
...journalists in a way. She's just repeating what they said, that the only patriotic Americans are on the right." Radosh, a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank, also says Coulter has exaggerated his own troubles as a conservative in academia. "She called me a victim of the left and the academy. That's partially true, but I've had plenty of jobs in academia." Coulter responded that Radosh had complained to reporters in the past about being blacklisted. She also called him "a chickens...
This last movie features Jody, a young murder victim, as the dead girl du jour. In the truly terrible “The Amityville Horror,” Jody is one member of the Defeo family, allegedly slaughtered in their sleep by their father (who claimed that voices from the house told him to kill his family). The young Lutz family moves into the home one year later, only to find that young Jody and other ghosts have not moved...
What are we saying to survivors—friends, siblings, parents, roommates, loved ones—when we say and do nothing at all? We are saying that we are not prepared to create the truly supportive environment that would allow them to come forward. Victim-blaming is frighteningly prevalent—why didn’t you say “no” more clearly? Why didn’t you push back? Why did you have anything to drink? When someone is robbed, or is the victim of another violent crime, our first thoughts...