Victim blaming: Difference between revisions

 

==Horseshoe theory and nonpolarized views==

Some scholars make the argument that some of the attitudes that are described as victim blaming and the victimologies that are said to counteract them are both extreme and similar to each other, an example of the [[horseshoe theory]]. For instance, they argue that the claim that "women wearing provocative clothing cause rape" is as demeaning to men as it is to women as depicting men as incapable of controlling their sexual desire is misandrist and denies men full agency, while also arguing that the generalization that women do not lie about rape (or any generalization about women not doing some things because of their gender) is misogynist by its implicit assumption that women act by simple default action modes which is incompatible with full agency. These scholars argue that it is important to impartially assess the evidence in each criminal trial individually and that any generalization based on statistics would change the situation from one where the control of evidence makes false reporting difficult to one where lack of individual control of the alleged crime makes it easier to file false reports and that statistics collected in the former situation would not be possible to apply to the latter situation. While the scholars make a distinction between actual victim blaming and [[rule by law]] that they consider to be falsely lumped with victim blaming in radical feminist rhetorics, they also advocate more protection from ad hominem questions to alleged victims about past life history and that the questions should focus on what is relevant for the specific alleged crime. They also cite examples that they consider to be cases of the horseshoe theory applied to the question of victim blaming. This includes cases in which psychologists who have testified on behalf of the prosecution in trials in which breast size have been used as a measure of female age when classifying pornographic cartoons as child pornography and been praised by feminists for it, and later the same psychologists have used the same psychological arguments when testifying on behalf of the defense in statutory rape cases and getting the defendant acquitted by claiming that the victim's breasts looked like those of an adult woman (considered by these scholars to be victim blaming based on appearance) and been praised by men's rights groups for it. It also includes the possibility that biopsychiatric models that consider sexual criminality hereditary and that are advocated by some feminists may blame victims of incest abuse for being genetically related to their abusers and thereby dissuading them from reporting abuse.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kSUlHgB2m4C |title = Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies and Criminal Justice|isbn = 9781412904872|last1 = Helfgott|first1 = Jacqueline B.|date = 2008}}{{page needed|date=November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | doi=10.4324/9781315264868 | title=Restorative Justice: Ideals and Realities| year=2017| last1=Gavrielides| first1=Theo| isbn=9781315264868}}{{page needed|date=November 2019}}</ref>

 

* [[Divine retribution]]

* [[Gaslighting]]

* [[Guilt trip]]

* [[Injustice]]