Citations:victim-blamey

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English citations of victim-blamey

Adjective: "engaging in, promoting, or characteristic of victim-blaming"

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  • 2013, Annika Wolters, "What Makes A Costume Offensive?", The AS Review (Western Washington University), Volume 29, Number 7, 30 October 2013, page 8:
    “I think any sort of advice on how to have a safer Halloween based only on the costume is very victim-blamey,” Wozniak said.
  • 2014, Timaree Schmit, "Bad Karma", Philadelphia Weekly, 24 September 2014 - 1 October 2014, page 19:
    They tell me you can never let your guard down. Not for a single second. That you should expect every fellow citizen to be a sociopath. It isn’t exactly victim-blamey, but it feels gross.
  • 2015, Howard Hardee, "The Bros among us", CN&R, Volume 38, Issue 37, 7 May 2015, page 22:
    “This can get very victim-blamey, but you teach people how to treat you by what you tolerate,” she said. “Women who tolerate men being offensive and derogatory toward them, being possessive, letting men control them, they feed into it.”
  • 2015, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 18, aired 21 June 2015:
    John Oliver: And that whole distinctly victim-blamey sentiment of "if you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have taken photos" is hard-wired into mainstream culture.