Hurrah!! Everyone’s A Victim!!!
. I think it all started in the 90’s, with the whole talk-show coming-out parties, in which every celebrity who had done something stupid would talk about the atrocities of their childhood, and how it impacted them in their adulthood to embezzle money or cheat on their spouse. Yes, the 90’s were the Decade of the Victim, and we all followed suit (or, in many cases, filed suit). The court system became inundated with civil suits claiming that someone else’s actions had caused them emotional and mental harm. This started, of course, with the woman who earned millions of dollars getting burned by a cup of coffee at McDonald’s, which is why every Styrofoam cup has a disclaimer informing us that coffee is hot. My point in all this? Full Story
