I think where you and I are disagreeing here is that my reading of 'victim' in fic is the character as a passive receptacle of whump, someone who has to be rescued because that's their function in the story, to cast a reflected glory on their manly rescuer.
Of course, being victimised doesn't make you a victim. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any alternate term for 'victim' that I can find that doesn't have that passive lie back and think of Abydos connotation to it, and it's certainly the one that the worst offenders hold hard to.
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Date: 2005-04-03 08:22 pm (UTC)Of course, being victimised doesn't make you a victim. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any alternate term for 'victim' that I can find that doesn't have that passive lie back and think of Abydos connotation to it, and it's certainly the one that the worst offenders hold hard to.