‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood
‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood
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“被毁”的生活：介导的白人男性受害者
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Sarah Banet‐Weiser
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作者：
Sarah Banet‐Weiser
当#metoo标签开始在数字媒体和社交媒体上传播时，它挑战了人们对被强奸或性骚扰者作为受害者的熟悉解读，将女性定位为实体代理人。然而，就在#metoo运动变得引人注目几乎整整一年后，一个不同的故事开始在与#metoo相似的多媒体平台上流传：一个关于白人男性受害者的故事。处于特权地位的有权势的男性（几乎都是白人）开始把受害者的外衣当作自己的外衣，他们经常声称自己是女性性骚扰和性侵犯的虚假指控的受害者。通过对被指控性暴力的五名非常引人注目、有权势的男性的公开声明的分析，我认为受害者的话语不是被那些历史上遭受过苦难的人所挪用，而是被那些处于父权地位的人所挪用。几乎所有的陈述都包含了一些关于指控（偶尔承认实际的暴力）如何“毁了他们的生活”的情绪，这里分析的所有陈述都以作者为中心，被指控的白人男子，作为处于危险中的关键主体，作者将自己定位为事件的真相讲述者。这些声明强调了公众对性暴力的看法的某些转变；#metoo运动在改变叙事方面的成功，意味着男性不得不在公共场合更明确地为自己辩护。为了夺回性别稳定的霸权，这些男人自己承担起了受害者的角色。
When the hashtag #metoo began to circulate in digital and social media, it challenged a familiar interpretation of those who are raped or sexually harassed as victims, positioning women as embodied agents. Yet, almost exactly a year after the #metoo movement shot to visible prominence, a different, though eerily similar, story began to circulate on the same multi-media platforms as #metoo: a story about white male victimhood. Powerful men in positions of privilege (almost always white) began to take up the mantle of victimhood as their own, often claiming to be victims of false accusations of sexual harassment and assault by women. Through the analysis of five public statements by highly visible, powerful men who have been accused of sexual violence, I argue that the discourse of victimhood is appropriated not by those who have historically suffered but by those in positions of patriarchal power. Almost all of the statements contain some sentiment about how the accusation (occasionally acknowledging the actual violence) ‘ruined their life’, and all of the statements analyzed here center the author, the accused white man, as the key subject in peril and the authors position themselves as truth-tellers about the incidents. These statements underscore certain shifts in the public perception of sexual violence; the very success of the #metoo movement in shifting the narrative has meant that men have had to defend themselves more explicitly in public. In order to wrestle back a hegemonic gender stability, these men take on the mantle of victimhood themselves.