Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

NYT ^ | 17 Oct 2017 | Barry Meier

[Hugh the Scot]

Having looked at the article, now I can’t stop reading the headline as: “... where women are braindead.”

[wardaddy]

The leader is a male

His prefect is a woman

Crazy women

Many of whom are lovely....quite actually

[\/\/ayne]

What do you do when you're branded -
but you know you're a man?

[princeofdarkness]

“Since the late 1990s, an estimated 16,000 people have enrolled in courses offered by Nxivm (pronounced Nex-e-um), which it says are designed to bring about greater self-fulfillment by eliminating psychological and emotional barriers.”

So they name their group after an antacid medicine?

[wally_bert]

That was a great episode.

[I want the USA back]

So, the state is not going to arrest them? that means the group has not been disbanded, and this continues.

I want to call this insanity, but the word is inadequate.

How can anyone expect to be empowered by SUBMITTING willingly to torture? They willingly turned over naked photos? they called the torturer “master”?

I’m amazed at how stupid and gullible some people can be.

[sparklite2]

Dad’s right. Half the people
have below average IQs.

[Charles Martel]

I want nothing to do with any organization that would request this type of “collateral” from me.

No kidding. Seems like a cult with a slick website.

[JimRed]

Since the leader is female, she should be addressed as Mistress.

Maybe she/it is gender confused!

[ifinnegan]

Median, yes.

[NorthMountain]

But if you say “half the population is below the median”, people will think you’re talking about the interstate ...

[Trillian]

Why do strong, independent women feel the need to other people to constantly empower them?

[Trillian]

And as a final humiliation, you must walk home naked dragging behind you the Stone of Shame.

[Drew68]

Before Nxivm, he helped run a company called Consumers’ Buyline Inc., which offered discounts to members on groceries and other products.

In the mid-1990s, several state attorneys general investigated it as a suspected pyramid scheme; Mr. Raniere and his associates agreed to shut it down.

Through Nxivm, Mr. Raniere transformed himself into a New Age teacher with long hair and a guru-like manner of speaking.

I already love this guy!

[pluvmantelo]

Must be the origin of the phrase ‘skin in the game’.