Those such as Olaudah Equiano wrote memoirs that showed the slavers, not the African victims, as monsters.
Most of the women in his work are either victims or monsters, though they are perhaps granted winks of complicity in the resilient glee with which he beheld them.
In "Care and Feeding," it's also the men — from pet collectors to endangered-species smugglers — who subjugate wild animals to their selfish and perverse wishes, making their captive animals, along with their captive women, into either victims or monsters.
You might have thought that the horror-captured-on-videotape genre was all played out, after The Blair Witch Project gave way to the diminishing returns of Cloverfield, Rec, Diary of the Dead, Quarantine, and other thrillers purportedly pieced together from amateur footage shot by the victims of monsters, zombies, and wraiths.
Everyone we see hurt is either purely victim or monster.
Meer calls it a horror game where the player is "both victim and monster" and it's this duality that makes the game so subversive.
While the men get to be tortured geniuses slash douchebag arseholes, the nominated best actresses get to play victims, sufferers or monsters.
Times guidelines: Too scary for kids under 6 or 7. Victims possessed by monsters; bad guy steals souls.
Here is the latest example of how the press can "monster" victims, or alleged perpetrators of crimes if they are thought to have diverged from conservative sexual or gender norms, sensationalising personal details (which they've often made considerable effort to root up) in search of saleable stories.
I now believe both my childhood friend and her brother were also victims of The Monster, as I came to call him, a man now long dead.
