Originally a comment by Sastra on On the cusp of instantiating the gender cult (by Der Durchwanderer).

It’s interesting that a “right to personal honor” is explicitly spelled out here, because I’ve been reading arguments that the Honor Culture of the past shares this concern with the emerging Culture of Victimhood. When a focus on public reputation is combined with a sensitivity to slights and a conviction that these must be avenged, the Enlightenment’s belief that humans have inherent dignity and a reasonable person ignores insults as beneath them loses ground. We return to the past — though with one significant difference.

In Honor Cultures, it was up to the person insulted to take revenge, usually through violence. The Culture of Dignity ignored attacks on personal honor and sought redress for actual wrongs through the law. Victimhood Cultures combine an easily-wounded sense of honor with appeals to the law, state, and third parties to make their reputation whole. It’s a dangerous new combination.