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The dilemmas of victim positioning
All categorizations have an impact. But the undesired victim
categories tend to have very strong impacts and effects. Often,
very clear and socially legitimized identity aspects are required
to compensate for the impacts, effects and signification that a
victim category entails: the child incest victim, the raped teenage
girl, the child with bruises from a parent’s daily abuse — who
can look beyond and past these elements of categorization and
see the human being with the needs, feelings, views, humor etc.
that are also part of these people’s being and agency?
The victim categories affect and shade how we interpret
contributions and efforts of interaction. This is yet another
reason why some people either try to avoid being categorized as
victims or why they conceal an early experience when they
change context. It becomes problematic when the children at a
new school are told that the new girl in the class was a victim of
bullying at her previous school, since this affects the evaluation
of her both by the other children and by the adults. It is
problematic if the young woman on her first date after an
assault happens to reveal that she is a former rape victim;
romance and eroticism will immediately take on a different hue
and be overshadowed by all sorts of associations with that kind
of event. It presents problems to a child if he overhears the
others in the new sports club whispering about his violent
parent and exchanging ideas about whether, with this in mind,
he might be good at fighting or whether he is a cry-baby. In a
new social situation, it is best to appear intact and with a
current and hitherto unchallenged dignity.
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