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Small world indeed, that’s him! Spent 2 & 1/2 months with him on the British Swift when he was deck cadet back in 2016.
Never knew he was on TV."Survivor"
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Small world indeed, that’s him! Spent 2 & 1/2 months with him on the British Swift when he was deck cadet back in 2016.
Never knew he was on TV.
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Small world indeed, that’s him! Spent 2 & 1/2 months with him on the British Swift when he was deck cadet back in 2016.
It was a recent thing, Easter time I think, it's on iplayer. If you fancy looking it up it's called misfits like us, can't remember the exact title but I think there's only a couple of burns episodes.
I always found this SJW thing a tad comical in it's stupidity, I mean calling rape victims "rape survivors" to be more PC probably sounded good to the person who initially thought of it (just like the #metoo movement sounded good to the inventor who didn't live in a country where the # is the pound symbol 
). But it's kind of silly considering all rape victims survive, if they don't they are murder victims with signs of sexual assault lol.
). But it's kind of silly considering all rape victims survive, if they don't they are murder victims with signs of sexual assault lol.
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I survived the 3 and half hour ordeal. Many women were in the office and not a single brew.
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This is actually one of the few occasions where use of the term can be considered a positive thing, due to the empowerment it can instil. However, that empowerment has likely been lessened by excessive use of the term everywhere else, probably as a way to try and stop 'victim culture' that some people live by.
Debatable.
They may physically remain alive beyond the encounter, but some never recover and some remain so badly broken it could be argued that they did not survive at all. Worse still, a high number of victims commit suicide either shortly afterward or many years down the line - Enough that many countries are finding ways to hold the rapists responsible - From Manslaughter in various flavours, to assisting, abetting, encouraging or otherwise contributing to suicide. At the minute these measures seem to float between civil and criminal courts, but there are drives to fully criminalise it.
Basic minor discomfort, has become confused with offence, any negative feeling or slight aggravation seems to be immediately classed as offensive - it's all very silly.
I wish people would learn to just learn to toughen up just a little bit, I'm not expecting someone to allow themselves to be raped, assaulted, or directly verbally abused or whatever - most of these 'offences' don't even have victims. They're just delicate individuals feeling a bit uncomfortable, whilst having practically zero mental fortitude - that translates into offence.
More annoyingly, we're all being dragged into conformance - mostly via the workplace and social media, most of which is ruled by these delicate people.
I wish people would learn to just learn to toughen up just a little bit, I'm not expecting someone to allow themselves to be raped, assaulted, or directly verbally abused or whatever - most of these 'offences' don't even have victims. They're just delicate individuals feeling a bit uncomfortable, whilst having practically zero mental fortitude - that translates into offence.
More annoyingly, we're all being dragged into conformance - mostly via the workplace and social media, most of which is ruled by these delicate people.
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It's used as a synonym for "victim". The meaning is exactly the same. It may be the case that it might be helpful for some victims on an individual basis for psychological reasons, but it was never going to stop anyone using victim power for political purposes because the meaning is unchanged and it was always going to be used for that purpose itself. It's political, not personal.
They're not dead until they are. I'm very wary of the idea that rape victims are better off dead than alive, let alone the idea that they are already dead while they are alive. I think it's a dangerous idea.
They're not delicate. They're not harmed. They're the ones doing the harm. They're claiming to be victims as a method of gaining the power to do harm based on their own irrational prejudices (usually sexism and/or racism) and/or simply to gain power. It's not a new idea. If you look at the propaganda of irrationally prejudices ideologies throughout history you'll almost always find at least some degree of claiming victim status in order to "justify" prejudice, discrimination and attacks. The current lot are better at it than most, but it's not something they came up with themselves.
I think it's a combination of things, from what I've witnessed first hand it's very young, inexperienced people - who have the ability to filter out anything bad from their information feeds. These are people who live inside social media - so for the first time in human history, they're able to ingest insane amounts of information and be part of social networks - all of which are in line with their own opinions, and are able to filter out anything that challenges their position - which is bad on so many levels.
The end result (from my own personal experience of dealing with these people) is that we're left with individuals who have no coping skills at all, they're not evil, they don't have any 'agenda' they just don't have any level of resilience, they crumble up like wet paper when faced with anything difficult.
There may be other more extreme elements who are using it as a method of gaining power (perhaps BLM would be a good example), but from my significant and direct personal experience, (which I can't go into at all) they are mostly very, very fragile people who have no coping skills.
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In many contexts, yes, which I would stand against because in both cases it's used to enable and exacerbate the victimhood culture.
That's how the, shall we say, 'alternate term' came about - "Victims are dead, survivors make it through", sort of idea.
It was intended as the antithesis, both to the, again shall we say, 'misappropriation' of the word victim, and the negativity associated with being an actual victim. A good number of 'victims' outright refused to let themselves be classified as a victim, much less defined by it.
As with all such things, someone inevitably nicks it for their own (political) ends, but if it genuinely helps genuine people with genuine issues, then it still deserves recognition in that context, too. I'd just hope most people could tell the difference.
Not at this point, perhaps, but at least people tried...
Dead in the metaphorical sense. It's obviously something you cannot prosecute unless they are physically dead.
But even in the metaphorical sense, for some victims it is a very real thing rather than anyone's idea (and I'd suspect if anyone did come up with that idea, they weren't one of the victims or even those carers involved afterward, either)... and it's still damaging enough that suicide is far too common an end result.