tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450810047250498407.post2483582574897791326..comments2020-01-01T15:40:13.561-06:00Comments on Squirlaraptor Photography: The Blame GameChristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06554232112054581147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450810047250498407.post-9020183351406105462008-10-06T08:10:00.000-05:002008-10-06T08:10:00.000-05:00Yeah, that's a major problem with issues like this...Yeah, that's a major problem with issues like this. I teach college freshmen and sophomores and too often it's the female students who are most judgmental about other girls or women who are victimized. <BR/><BR/>I read in an article by Jean Kilbourne once (I don't remember if this was her idea or her quoting someone else's idea, though) that this happens in part because this mindset allows women to maintain the fiction in their own minds that they have some level of control over what happens to them. In other words, it's easier for them to see other victims as somehow responsible for their fate than it is to acknowledge that they could easily become the next victim and there's really nothing they can do to prevent it. <BR/><BR/>That makes a lot of sense to me; it doesn't, of course, change the fact that blaming the victim is wrong and deeply troubling, but it does provide a way of understanding why it happens in some cases.Christyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554232112054581147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450810047250498407.post-4377893807167036312008-10-04T17:33:00.000-05:002008-10-04T17:33:00.000-05:00Victim-blaming is such a pernicious problem that i...Victim-blaming is such a pernicious problem that it even comes from other women sometimes--I remember when I was a teenager, and issue of Seventeen interviewed a girl who got upskirted. In the next issue, another teenage girl wrote it and said, "No wonder she got upskirted--look at what she's wearing!" Even as a teenager, it disturbed me hugely. You should write a response, and more power to you for it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com