But if they don't, and you're victimized, it's tough for them to hold you accountable.
Of course, if you are in the Top 10%, you benefit more than you are victimized so we shouldn't worry about it and just keep investing in the companies that rob and steal on our behalf.
Even and perhaps especially when you are victimized as a child the idea that you were somehow complicit in your own exploitation wreaks havoc on your sense of self.
If you are victimized, that doesn't mean there is something wrong with you, it means you are one of the best human beings.
"What is difficult is that you're victimizing them twice," he said of the mothers.
To do so isn't cruel or prejudiced: by labeling the creep a creep, you're victimizing the creep before the creep can victimize you.
What if you never were victimized in your entire life and, instead, were the one doing the choosing and the one who is both Response-Able and Accountable?
(If you doubt his, ask yourself how you would feel if your 18-year-old son or daughter were arrested and charged with a felony. Then pivot and ask how you would feel if you or a loved one were victimized by the actions of "somebody else's" 18-year-old felon).
"There's always been a sense in Florida that if you feel you have been victimized, you have an obligation to protect your honor by avenging what has taken place," Robert Snyder, a professor of American Studies at the University of South Florida, once told the Tampa Bay Times.
