It said it was disappointed to have had to implement a price rise in October given that "energy affordability is a major societal issue", blaming costs including wholesale energy price rises.
What is different is the "societal victim-blaming" surrounding victims of assault.
Medicalisation, then, depoliticises the (female) victim/survivor of sexual violence in order to render her, as a recipient of international aid, 'palatable, legitimate, even sympathetic' (Ticktin 2011, p. 260)—not unrelated to the significance placed on sexual integrity, Victorian ideas about the loss of honour, and societal views that blame victims for their own rape (Engle 2014).
The greatest obstacle is addressing societal ostracism and blame directed towards the child victim and, in this respect, more is known about the challenges of recovering and reintegrating girls and boys in families and communities than success stories.
There is a danger that this language of responsibility can come to bolster more pervasive moral discourses and societal notions of blame that can make the environment in which HIV-positive women have to negotiate their sexuality and fertility more fraught.
Meanwhile, if too many images of our own species mating are somehow to blame for societal damage, it's probably going to be years before science can say exactly what that damage is.
Yet we ought not entirely abandon the notion of personal responsibility in the process, unless we are willing to do the truly difficult work of looking in the societal mirror and ascribing blame to a culture of violence in which we all participate.
"I'm not allowed to talk about that," she says firmly, with a beautifully neutral smile and only the merest hint of an eye roll, although she does reject the argument that societal violence can be blamed on cinematic villains.
One group is targeted by governments and blamed for societal ills and the other group elects people to those governments (often Republicans).
