| Term | Definition |
|---|
| perceived kindness | how victims understand cessation of violence within context of terror |
| isolation | punishing captives for being friendly to each other, encouraging captives to hate one another, lesbophobia |
| perceived inability to espcape | "i'll kill you if you leave me," "daddy will go to jail," "you'll go to hell," |
| narrowed perceptions | focused on the immediate, surviving the here and now |
| minimization | "its not so bad, other women have it worse" |
| cognitive distortion of self | seeing themselves as men see them, hating those parts of themselves that captors criticize or says is the reason he is angry |
| perfection trap | deserve abuse/totally worthless unless perfect according to captor's demands |
| push-pull | intense dynamics victims develop: naturally push away from threat while simultaneously pulling toward (bonding with) captor |
| stockholm syndrome | individual victim bonds to abuser who shows kindness |
| generalized stockholm syndrome | individual victim/oppressed group bonds to kind person/oppressor group resembling abuser/oppressor group |
| g.s.s. 1 | individual victim bonds to a kind individual who resembles abusive individual |
| g.s.s. 2 | individual member of oppressed group bonds to one or more kind individuals of oppressor group |
| societal stockholm syndrome | oppressed group bonds with oppressor group |
| femicide | 40% of all murdered women are murdered by their husbands, figures rise when adding boyfriends/exes |
| bedroom | in america, its second only to the highway as the scene of slaughter |
| 44 | percentage of american women over 18 who are victims of completed or attempted rape |
| altruistic sex-rape | one party submits out of guilt, duty, pity |
| compliant sex-rape | one party submits because the consequences of not submitting as worse than those of submitting |
| 7.8 | percent likelihood of american woman NOT being sexually assaulted or directly harassed in her lifetime |
| heterosexual privilege | material/social advantages women obtain through coupling with men, "a stake in male supremacy," "a stake in other women's oppression" |
| ****ing | ritual enactment of subordination, reinforces female hetero-eroticism |
| ideological isolation | exposure to the ideas, opinions, attitudes, feelings, and needs of men and children to the exclusion of exposure to the same in other women |
| physical isolation | one adult male + one adult female in a home, living one-on-one with the oppressor |
| emotional ptsd | fear, anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, lowered self-esteem |
| cognitive ptsd | perceptual disturbances such as de-realization and dissociation |
| biological ptsd | somatic disturbances, ulcers, headaches, gastrointestinal problems, menstrual problems, asthma |
| behavioral ptsd | suicidal thoughts/actions, personality disorders |
| interpersonal ptsd | sexuality and relationship issues, decreased trust, fear of getting close to anyone |
| somatization disorder | inability to express unhappiness even to oneself |
| mental disorders | in women, normal responses to unhealthy social environments, symptoms of subordination |
| romance | often bidirectional bond between captor and captive, usually with eroticism |
| ludic | captor style of love characterized by game-playing, deception, refusal to make strong commitment |
| pragmatic | captive style of love characterized by highly logical, practical concerns such as social status, material gain, safety that can be gained through relationship with captor |
| manic | captive style of love characterized by being overly dependent, possessive, competitive with fellow captors |
| splitting | women separate men into two classes: predators (rapists, wife beaters, molesters) and protectors (fathers, boyfriends, husbands, brothers) |
| love-dependence | women's feeling that their survival depends on their male partners' loving them |
| poor devil | term for men which states that they are violent because they have had hard lives or "just need love" |
| defense attribution | women's unconscious denial of vulnerability, we defend against threats by telling ourself we are "not like" the rape victim or by blaming the victim |
| golden cage | the 'pleasant prison' of hetersexuality for white upper class women, aspiring to this 'pleasant prison' provides women of color and poor white women with a group (lesbians) to feel superior to in a world in which they usually feel inferior |
| femininity | blueprint for trying to win over the enemy, personality traits associated with subordinates and captives, the ultimate stockholm syndrome response |
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