Word: victimizer
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...symbolism and persona are not enough to rehabilitate devastated nations, as Aquino has found out. In a land of political victims, she came to power as the most famous victim of Philippine dictator Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen...
...struggle for equality. They note, for example, that people- oriented jobs in which women dominate, such as nursing and teaching, are invariably on the low end of the pay scale. Catharine MacKinnon, law professor at the University of Michigan, calls Gilligan's different voice "the voice of a victim...
...merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender in a society saturated with sexual violence and victim blaming...
Shannon fell victim to a wave of anti-establishment vote, and Sawyer tried to capitalize on that sentiment in the general election. But Harshbarger said despite his long political ties, he did not carry the aura of an incumbent...
Will they next blame Blacks for slavery?(Or women for sexism and rape?) Sadly, such anti-gay crimes are not rare. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals are six times more likely to be the victim of crime than any other demographic group. More than 350 people were killed in the united states last year because of their sexual orientation...