12:17am July 28, 2015

“Psychologists have found that people’s belief in a just world helps explain how they react to innocent victims of negative life circumstances. People become cognitively frustrated when presented with stories of victims who suffer through little fault of their own. They can deal with this frustration in two ways: they can conclude that the world is an unjust place, or they can decide that the victim is somehow to blame. Most people reconcile their psychological distress by blaming the victim. Even when we know that suffering is undeserved, it is psychologically easier to blame the victim rather than give up the idea that the world is basically fair.”

Melissa Harris-Perry [x] (via aerialiste)

it is psychologically easier to blame the victim rather than give up the idea that the world is basically fair.

(via madmaudlingoes)

it is scary to realize that the world is not fair and that anything can happen to you even if you don’t do anything wrong , but we need to embrace it because it will make us more fair and better people

(via feminismandhappiness)

A family member once told me it took him years to believe what had happened to me in the psych system, because it required him to give up on a lot of his ideas about society being basically fair to people.  And he was more honest about that thought process than most people are/

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