So
victimhood is 'sharing the infinite merits of Jesus' passion and death to share the redemption of sinful man.'
She seems to have found an archetypal ally in
victimhood, which, in these days of identity politics sells well, politically, socially, and in gender terms.
Poverty,
victimhood and the blame game have become the WAG's USP.
In our book The Rise of
Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars, Jason Manning and I discuss how a new culture of
victimhood differs from cultures of honor and dignity, and we discuss how the new culture threatens the mission of the university.
The problem seems to be much deeper and rooted in a sense of alienation and
victimhood. This alienation seems to manifest itself among groups who use religious, economic or racial narratives to justify their violence.
They consider religion, class, and power in the show; female nudity; the show from the perspective of writings by Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and John Nash; queer intimacy; specific characters; adaptation, femininity, and
victimhood in the human sacrifice of Shireen Baratheon; the role of death in the narrative and Jon Snow's relationship to it; the role of costumes of female characters to assert dominance, display sexuality, or claim heritage; the relationship between the show and Richard Wagner's Ring cycle of operas; show spoilers; audience interactions with the show on social media; and other topics.
The aftermath of the Hebdo killings galvanized a set of opposing ideas about the nature and causes of the attacks, the value of free expression, the meaning of
victimhood, which animated an ongoing conflict for control over cultural values in Western societies.
"So keen are women to embrace
victimhood that members of the MeToo movement wail about flirtatious conduct decades ago and even a cabinet minister whimpers about an off-colour joke of several years earlier.
For generations they have been pushing welfare and
victimhood like they were crack and propping up poverty pimps, race baiters, and empty suits like they were heroes.
On the one hand, the Holocaust forms postmodern Jewish
victimhood, while on the other hand, the victim mentality it generates is used by "anti-Zionists"--as the new antisemites--to project the image of Nazis onto Jews or Israelis and to accuse them of crimes of victimization.