The shift became evident during the 2008 Gaza invasion... Yet Israel's leaders still automatically assume the victim position... Societies that lose their internal dissent and self-criticism have a sad and scary record, especially when combined with a sense of victimisation".
When presented with alternatives, the person in the potential victim position relies upon rational choice.
Some wives may decide from their victim position to become the righteous offenders entitled to make the man's life a living hell.
Mindfulness is the ability of the mind to engage in experiencing a negative stimulus -- like a negative thought, a feeling of unease -- in a nonjudgmental way that places the individual in more of an observer position than a victim position.
It felt particularly weird to be in a so-called victim position, because I am an optimistic self-help book author, not a helpless little twig being tossed topsy and turvy in the winds of uncontrollable fate.
However, the solution isn't for straight men to attack gay men and take offense from a victim position: "Poor me, having to feel like for a woman when a man sexualizes me!" My message is to man up! Increase your self-esteem and self-confidence.
Many television legal eagles who vehemently espouse victim's rights in other high-profile cases have contempt for this victim's position because it isn't in tune with their personal beliefs concerning what a victim should want.
She was speaking as a victim, and the climate in our culture has not changed enough to make the average American view an alleged rape victim's position as authoritative.
It was through sheer strength of character that Stein became the Queen of Bohemia — or, as she would have preferred it, the King — while Guggenheim was, in Greenberg's terms, its victim, a position he found troublingly emblematic.
And, after a successful "promotion" to recruiter, some ex-victims take positions in the trade, as traffickers and madams.
