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From the book: I... Victim! Condensed, very condensed... on behaviors and expressions of SPVs

I suggest you become aware of these gestures, ‘qualities’ and/or particular attitudes I’m about to mention… I’ve to tell you that one slice does not make a pie, so one alone would not make an SPV, that would, to put it in simpler words, be a wannabe… but if you sense more than one… Beware!

First of all, the face… the expression!

Something like Nicholas Cage’s face… with his eternal expression of pain!  Like out of a religious postcard.

That’s called: ‘victim’s face’, which adheres to their faces whenever they have an audience.
 
The voice… the so very particular voice of an SPV!

SPVs don’t speak… they whine… with that voice… that freaking voice that gets on everyone’s nerves! You don’t know from which cartoon they got it from, but it freaks you out.  That childish, nagging, agonizing nasal voice… that is so ridiculous… due to their need to seem innocent, virginal and pure… which, like the face, activates whenever their ‘herd’ of followers is before her.

Stupidity is another ‘quality’

Self-proclaimed victims (SPVs) are unable to achieve success.  They’re incompetent, mediocre, intellectually challenged… they’re unable to organize, never do anything just for knowledge sake, negligent, and cannot follow instructions, I mean… success equals effort so they prefer to wait for divine manna to appear.

Lethargy

SPVs are lazy.  They’re gone if, to all of the above, you add lethargy to the equation, and not only physically but mentally lethargic.  They don’t move, nor seem affected by anything!  That would imply improvising, conceiving ideas, thinking… getting up!

They condemn, but…

They are like bullies, who can’t take the heat when it comes to them taking it.  For example, while they condemn the concept of revenge in public, they are the first ones to conceive it, they love it, and work hard to achieve it… vengeance has the sweetest taste to them.

SPVs don’t care about anyone, zero, zip, nada…!

They go through life as if they were taking Prozac!

• If it’s not about me… - An SPV concludes - it’s not important!

 Their excuses and justifications

While an SPV keeps on telling herself that…

• He made me punch him -

…reacting to violence with words implies thinking and she… as an SPV, is incapable of doing so.

• He told me to do it! -

…how ‘bout… he can say: NO!

• I lost my house in the mudslide… the government has to pay for damages!

…she’s the one who decided to build her house at the bottom of a freaking mountain!

SPVs covet everything and everyone!

Because you have, because you don’t have… because you went, because you didn’t… there’s been a couple of SPVs that have told me: Lucky you who didn’t have children! …*no comment*

They’re envious because you exist.  Can’t think of another reason.