Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Avery is concerned that both the victim andoffender's confidentiality will be violated ifschools are held legally responsible forharassment among students...
...should pay attention to what the victimwants," she said. "We don't want to take controlaway from the victim...
...media feel about the whole jolly she-bang? Repeated endlessly, these questions have become painfully boring, but it is easy to be horrified by some of the press's efforts for sensationalism. One angle particularly off the mark is the moralistic retelling of young intern cast as naive victim and lead astray into sin by bad older...
...approximate the Miss Lewinsky profile--for better or for worse, probably for worse--we are in a privileged position to gues about her perspective. So what's the average sensibility of a smart gal, an ambitious teen or twenty-something? I'm not arguing Monica hasn't been a victim, perhaps of the media, of Kenneth Starr, of Linda Tripp, but of Bill...
...that Woman is always the perpetrator of sin, with a wiggle and a bounce. That would be equally naive and a down-right dangerous assertion. But each case is different, and when two consenting people break their commandment of choice, it is insulting to women to label Monica a victim. Just because she is young, female and virtually a secretary doesn't mean she was taken advantage of. She knew what was up--what she wanted and how to get it--as do a fair share of young women. No need to like Miss Lewinsky, or even respect her particularly...