Victim subscription

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Victim subscription ( subscription for subscription ) is a word attributed to Jörg Kachelmann , whose authorship and first-time use in public has not been unequivocally clarified. According to Jörg Kachelmann's own statement, it comes from his wife Miriam Kachelmann. Jörg Kachelmann himself used the word in a Spiegel interview, a year and a half after the acquittal in a rape trial . In January 2013 it was voted German Unword of the Year 2012 .

Unword of the year 2012

In autumn 2012 Jörg Kachelmann stated in several interviews that women had a “victim subscription”. With him they could assert their interests against men, for example in the form of false accusations. According to Jörg Kachelmann, the word creation itself comes from his wife Miriam. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine , where he and his wife Miriam were interviewed, Kachelmann said: “This is the victim subscription that women have. Women are always victims, even if they were perpetrators. But people can also be genuinely angry, even if they are female. "

Reason

The jury, consisting of Nina Janich (spokeswoman), Stephan Hebel , Kersten Sven Roth , Jürgen Schiewe and Martin Wengeler , justified the choice with the fact that the word women “in a blanket and unacceptable manner” suspected of inventing sexual violence thus being perpetrators themselves. The jury claims that only five to eight percent of women affected by sexual violence actually turned on the police and that only three to four percent of the cases resulted in a complaint and a lawsuit. The term and the associated statement are factually grossly inappropriate. "Last but not least, the word violates the human dignity of the actual victims."

Comments on the election

Ludwig Eichinger , director of the Institute for German Language in Mannheim, said the word was "too little known"; However, it was "a not nicely meant word formation in a very emotional argument".

The spokesman for the victim organization Weißer Ring Helmut Rüster rated the election as a "double-edged sword". The organization said that there was a risk of making a word popular in this way and serving the opinions of "people of the past". On the other hand, it is important to expose such terms.

Bernd Matthies admitted in the Tagesspiegel Kachelmann to use the statement in a subjectively legitimate way as self-defense, and criticized that the previous history or the connections would be ignored when choosing an unword : “The choice strips the terms of any connection and thus shows only one surface to be distorted at will. "

The linguist Gerrit Kloss criticized in the FAZ, using the example of the victim subscription, that the jury (contrary to their own claims) "creates" non-words. If you look at the interview in question in the mirror, the starting point is the question of the mirror: "How could you provoke this hatred in this woman?" triggered in the man when the man became violent. After the interviewer insisted, the sentence quoted at the beginning was dropped. In this context, the logical subjects of the “victim subscription” are not women, but those in public who judge male-female perpetrator-victim constellations. The accusation that the word “victim subscription” violates human dignity is no longer valid.

Erik Wenk pointed out in the taz that a "victim" in the youth language is a weak, stupid or inferior person who is to blame for their bad treatment. Kachelmann “gave all sexists a word with which women's quota and equality could be dismissed as the whining of limited feminists. Having a subscription also implies that you have consciously developed this "right" and operate accordingly. How dangerous this attitude is can be seen in India, where after the rape scandal, voices reported that it was the victim's own fault. However, that is just as absurd as a "perpetrator subscription" for men. "

Web links

Wiktionary: Victim subscription  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. spiegel.de
  2. https://twitter.com/Kachelmann/status/543378549257035776
  3. Unword of the year: "Victim subscription"? Kachelmann thinks well. In: Spiegel Online . January 15, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  4. Thomas Tuma: Collective blood rush . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2012 ( online - conversation with Jörg and Miriam Kachelmann).
  5. unwortdesjahres.net
  6. Unwort des Jahres 2012 Spiegel Online , accessed January 15, 2013.
  7. a b “Victim subscription” follows “Döner murders” .
  8. ^ "Victim subscription" is the bad word of the year , Zeit Online January 15, 2013
  9. a b Unword of the year: “Victim subscription”? Kachelmann thinks well . Spiegel Online , accessed January 15, 2013.
  10. ^ "Victim subscription" followed by "Bankrupt Greeks", NZZ January 16, 2013
  11. Bernd Matthies : Jörg Kachelmann's “victim subscription”: Why the unword of the year is inappropriate this time . tagesspiegel.de , January 16, 2013
  12. Gerrit Kloss: Did Jörg Kachelmann invent the “victim subscription”? In: FAZ , January 23, 2013, “Research and Teaching”, page N5
  13. Erik Wenk: “Victim subscription” is the bad word of the year 2012 A word for sexists, Taz Online January 15, 2013