Mathew Gross: The politics of victimization

[dand]

Deride and conquer.


Watch Dan rather apologize for not getting his facts straight, observe Donna Braizille squirm as she is ridiculed by Bay Buchanan, listen to Pelosi and Schumer take to the airwaves saying that they have to go back to the drawing boards and learn from their mistakes and try to be better, more likable, more appealing, speak to morality. Watch them awkwardly quote the bible. Hear the voices crying out, "why did they beat me?"

Then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they ever heard this before.

They will tell you, every single day.

The answer is quite simple. They beat us because they are abusers. We can call it hate. We can call it fear. We need to recognize that we are victims of verbal, mental, and even , in the case of Iraq, physical violence.

http://mathewgross.com/blog/archives/001041.html

[cassiepriam]

1. Great article.... hits nail on head nt

[Demit]

2. Just curious--did this appear originally in the Washington Post?

[dand]

3. My error, see above.

[Rose Siding]

4. An insightful analogy

I would dare to add to Ms Gilles' title: Surviving (or Overcoming) The Politics of Victimization

There's much hope within her analysis.

[Karenina]

5. W-A-Y-B-A-C-K (before I fled the U.S.)

I worked on a "Psychic Hotline" in L.A. The calls from abused women (which finally burned me out) were SO EASY to spot. One detail that always stuck in my mind as I encouraged callers to "tell me ALL about it" was that the women who reacted to their abusers with unexpected and escalated violence were the ones who survived separation, or whose S.O.s chilled out mightily and ceased to reoffend. Lots of Lorena Bobbitt variations... :crazy:

Any thoughts?