Most importantly, countries should not have to bring their legislation into line with laws and customs in other countries where criminals are treated with particular care, where they are gradually transformed into victims while the victims are forgotten, and where criminals can in fact expect greater protection than victims.
In a six-minute thriller culminating in a riotous rock score, we see a woman transform from victim to attacker.
Yet Malala's ability to transform from victim to global advocate and inspirational leader belies what many (not just the Taliban) choose to believe about young women.
Transmitted by even minute amounts of bodily fluid, it unfailingly produces dramatic effects within 20 seconds, transforming its victims into enraged, wild-eyed, indiscriminate killers, with superhuman athletic abilities, the capacity to survive for at least several days, and a compulsion to bite the uninfected.
Victims transform into bullies as layers of deceit and anonymity are peeled away, annoying nerds become fully-fledged people, fun and games become trolling and torture, and sniggers lead to suicides.
Short of murder, advocates say, an acid attack is the most devastating form of aggression, transforming the victim into a figure of horror and an outcast in a society that often sees disfigurement as a form of karmic justice.
As she discovers her talent, the girl is "delivered … from ash to art," and when she paints her own portrait she transforms the "victim of violence" of the photographer's image into a woman who "comes out of fire with a vengeance in her stare".
As played by the protean and menacing Michael Park, this guy loves walruses, of all things, and surgically transforms his victim into a large, fleshy (and heavily scarred with stitches) walrus-like blob.
In this sense the Black Widows, many of whom are actual grieving widows, are victims who are transformed into victimizers.
If Yasmine is correct, it seems the plan is to transform female activists into victims, to force them to swallow their hope while spitting back shame into their faces.
