[Ads-l] to victim-blame, vt

[Ben Zimmer]

Arnold Zwicky covered these back-formations on his blog in 2013. He
observed that "slut-shame" was mostly transitive and "victim-blame" mostly
intransitive.

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/15/synthetic-compounds-and-back-formed-verbs-rape/

As mentioned in that post, "slut-shame" got included in the Summer 2013
installment of "Among the New Words" (AmSp 88.2).

http://bit.ly/ATNW88-2

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:35 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY DEVCOM
AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> I've seen "slut-shamed" used transitively.
>
> Google "slut-shamed her," "slut-shamed me," "slut-shamed that slut," etc.
>
> ----
>
> CNN just now:
>
> "Sounds like she was victim-blaming some of these women that have come
> forward."
>
> Possibly the first time I've noticed one of these constructions used
> transitively.
>
>
>

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