What are the advantages of victimhood? What are the disadvantages of victimhood?

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• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being the victim isn’t a choice so this question is nothing but problematic.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being a victim isn’t a choice. “Victimhood” or “vicim mentality” can be a choice.

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    • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is a very problematic take, though.

      Who gets to decide that a person has a “victim mentality?” If it’s not the person you’re labeling, then it’s not so much a choice they have made as it is a judgement you’ve made.

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  • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s so full of yikes that I just can’t.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well the main disadvantage of victimhood is that you are a victim.

  AFAIK, other than being able to “play the victim card,” which usually ends in people accusing you of doing that, there is no advantage of being a victim.

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  • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s one advantage of being a victim. Your assertions are given an automatic +1 veracity. Because no one dare question your suffering.

    Here’s one disadvantage of being a victim. It’s a disempowering narrative.

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    • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you’re saying that an advantage of being a victim is that people believe you?

      If only that were true…

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pros: you get to shrug off personal responsibility, and reap the (meager) benefits of being a charity case

  Cons: you don’t grow as a person, and never accumulate much of anything important or lasting

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being able to blame someone else for something that happens to me makes me hate myself less and reduces the amount I want to die.

  The disadvantage is that people might correctly identify their enemies and do something about it. Can’t have that!

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• AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no advantage to being a victim that can even scratch the surface of the disadvantage of being a victim.

  Only people who have never really been a victim can imagine there’s anything remotely resembling an advantage.

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  • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t imagine there’s anybody that has never been victimized. What a deranged concept.

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