What do you do when you're branded -
but you know you're a man?
Posted on 10/19/2017 11:19:33 AM PDT by Rummyfan
ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.
The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.
Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.
Each woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them, their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Having looked at the article, now I can’t stop reading the headline as: “... where women are braindead.”
The leader is a male
His prefect is a woman
Crazy women
Many of whom are lovely....quite actually
“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?
That was a great episode.
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.
Dad’s right. Half the people
have below average IQs.
No kidding. Seems like a cult with a slick website.
Maybe she/it is gender confused!
Median, yes.
But if you say “half the population is below the median”, people will think you’re talking about the interstate ...
Why do strong, independent women feel the need to other people to constantly empower them?
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!
Must be the origin of the phrase ‘skin in the game’.
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