Victimhood makes it more and more difficult for us to resolve political and social conflicts.
Not exact matches
Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b)
makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique
victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.
NO WE DO NT want to
make fun of or scorn BUT NEITHER do we want to fall into the modern trap of
victimhood and placation.
Forgiveness is a huge part of getting over
victimhood — genuine or
made up «Woe is me.»
What is more, once Vera has been arrested, her mute
victimhood borders on catatonia — and even if this is supposed to reflect the powerlessness of women, or of the «lower orders», before the legal apparatuses of the Establishment, it
makes the film's second half seem to drag, carried as it is purely by pathos without the accompanying support of drama.
But simply presenting depictions of women being abused, despondent or suicidal does nothing to
make them less sexually objectified and does nothing to challenge patterns of perpetual
victimhood.
[61] Facilitated, if not actively promoted, by the rise of the social sciences,
victimhood culture had
made its way from US colleges to European universities.