Tournament: Ihssa | Round: 2 | Opponent: Okoboji JW | Judge:
Victim because we are weak because we cannot stand for ourselves victim because I am broken and too emotional to understand how the world works we are made into less by this world, victim because I need someone, victim because the sparks off my tongue need to be excused, the weight of my words is too much to handle victim is a gag forced onto me I am done with being restrained by people who speak for me, being told that this is not the place, that I am meant to be used as only as an example of what you don’t do, an impact for your fem k when you portray us as victim you only reinforces the restraints on my gag
Usage of the word “victim” is a reason to reject them it constructs an Identity surrounded by stigmas of passivity and neediness this actively devalues those they try to describe
Meredith ‘9
(Valerie M. Meredith holds a BSc Econ (Hons) degree from Aberystwyth University and an MA from Essex University. She has done several missions with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is currently in Afghanistan, “Victim identity and respect for human dignity: a terminological analysis”, Volume 91 Number 874 June 2009)
When I was young I was taught to be a victim taught to hold in my crying smile through the tears, now I am teaching myself new words , words that empower, words that give strength I have been learning new words for survivors they are my own name they are the agency felt by survivor they are tools to get away from all that nightmare that followed me Using the word “survivor” solves all offense
Meredith ‘9 (quoting Ibid., pp. 470–471. These pages were referenced in a footnote)
(Valerie M. Meredith holds a BSc Econ (Hons) degree from Aberystwyth University and an MA from Essex University. She has done several missions with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is currently in Afghanistan, “Victim identity and respect for human dignity: a terminological analysis”, Volume 91 Number 874 June 2009)