[Ads-l] to victim-blame, vt

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks Ben, JL, LH and Bill.
Arnold Zwicky's post pointed to a forum webpage with an entry dated
Jun 22, 2012 containing a transitive "victim-blame"

Below is a 2010 tweet with a transitive "victim blame".

https://twitter.com/lfarber225/status/2846807801462784

Tweet handle: Lindsay Farber @lfarber225
Time-stamp: 5:15 PM · Nov 11, 2010

[Begin tweet text]
A news reporter just stated that many witnesses of the girl being
raped stated that she deserved it. How can they victim blame her?!
[End tweet text]

Only a small preliminary search was performed: Queries "victim blaming
her", "victim blamed her", "victim blame her". Did not look in Google
Groups.


On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:21 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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