Adding repetitive and often baseless or false victim categories to garner even more victim cred. For example, a trans woman may also have in the profile bio the term 'autistic.'
Cinnamon isn't really autistic, in fact (s)he doesn't even know what that means, but s(he) puts it in any self-description, along with the fact that (s)he is trans, wheelchair-bound, and narcoleptic. (S)he's really just victim cred stacking.
Victim framing means using your status as a minority or member of an oppressed group to represent your opinion as the only valid opinion, and claiming you are the victim of differing opinions. While their opinions are very valid and need to be heard, representing them in this way essentially locks people out of the conversation who want to contribute because they feel they can't voice their differing opinions/concerns without offending the minority
As a person of colour, Margo used victim framing to dominate the conversation about the future of funding public housing and quell dissenting opinions
Flip-Flops or other footwear that proves useless in life or death situations
"If he hadn't been wearing victim shoes, he might have gotten away"
a person who slips on ice mostly on sidewalks.
she was a sidewalk victim because she slipped on some ice outside.
Forcing people, usually men, to feel feelings of inferiority and impotence because of their gender. Not only done by women or transgender people, and not only done to men or transgender people. Named because of the feelings of impotence (vasectom), and the negative psychological effects of feeling like a victim (victimized).
The woman continued to berate the men in the classroom, and criticized them personally based on her generalized feelings of society and general examples of anecdotal situations they had nothing to do with. Some people left the classroom feeling vasectom-victimized.
Toxic abusive male- Oh, she's a special victim this one officer, she's not like all the rest of the special victims.
Officer- You have the right to remain silent asshole, you have no other rights, now shut up.
Toxic abusive male- Just trying to put in a good word for her, I know a lot of guys are getting badmouthed by special victims tonight, so I wanted to give you some good news.