Posted on 04/18/2019 3:06:20 PM PDT by rickmichaels
NXIVM has described itself as “a company whose mission is to raise human awareness, foster an ethical humanitarian civilization, and celebrate what it means to be human.” Critics have alleged other definitions for the group; definitions such as “sex-cult” and “pyramid scheme.” Federal U.S. prosecutors, meanwhile, are focusing on NXIVM’s alleged criminal activity: racketeering, wire fraud, sex trafficking, and forced labour, for a start.
The group’s spiritual leader and founder, Keith Raniere, goes on trial later this month, a bonus charge of possession of child pornography having been recently added to his already extensive list of alleged crimes. It’s ugly and confounding. How do people get away with this stuff and who falls for it?
Part of the answer is well established, if not well explained: women are more susceptible than men to falling under the control of exploitative movements. Or they do so more often, anyway. Research suggests as many as 70 per cent of cult members in the world are women.
In the NXIVM scandals, most of the worst stories emerge from something called “DOS” — a sort of sorority within NXIVM in which women allegedly recruited other women for all manner of abuse, including having their bodies physically branded with Raniere’s initials and submitting unconditionally to Raniere’s sexual wishes.
There are many theories about why women are disproportionately represented in the population of cult followers, perhaps the most common being that women are conditioned and/or wired to believe there is something wrong with them. The urge to self-correct to find outside acceptance is human, but it’s also familiarly female: lose weight, be gracious, be grateful, be obedient. Win without hurting anyone’s feelings. Be better than who you are.
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Different situations. To generalize crudely: guys want to make a buck and are more likely to fall for get-rich quick schemes, and chicks are looking for community and belonging and are more likely to join a cult. They both can be bargain hunters, but guys want what the other guys don’t have, and women want to pay less.
For your interest.
Be fair.
Sometimes a guy has to come up with a way to sell his boring and poorly plotted out science fiction novels.
Why not make them holy books?
The Democrat Party is a cult IMO
I had a rival back in college whom I shall call ‘Mr. Jacked RAM 4 X 4” and we both went after the same chick. She eventually became Miss Tropicana runner up. Fast forward to the end, me and my 04’ Jeep Cherokee with the busted air con and heater won out. It NEVER was the car is my favorite life lesson to my nephews if you want the girl...
the manson “family” was almost all females ...
The head of the FR q contingent is a woman?
The more guys the less nookie.
So guys are not targeted unless they have something that the cult wants as much as they want nookie. That thing is generally money or being so loony you will kill for the guy who is getting most of the nookie.
You notice how nearly all cults are started by men?
That is why.
Sorry I read “cats” instead of “cults”
This goes back to Genesis.
Women secretly desire to be ruled, despite any protestations to the contrary.
Ah yes. Mr. L. Ron Hubbard. Write a science fiction novel, turn it into a religion (Scientology), profit.
If a guy has to use some sort of jazzed up spiffy car to attract a woman, then that woman is shallow. Me? Show me a jet and I’ll wilt.
Sky is blue - women and minorities hardest hit
Feelings trump thoughts in most women.
And after all, cults are only one letter off.
I know guy who was invited to peoples temple when it was still in sf. He turned right around when he saw the fierce looking bodyguards at the temple entrance. Smart and not gullible. He told me if he hadn’t done that on that day, he might have died in Guyana 2 years later.
Ya think???
Bwahahahaha
Plenty of dopey men found in cults too. Plenty of men out there carried away by emotion, by the way. But I think the women, who settle for what emotional support they can get cult, are likely women whose menfolk regard them as stupid animals driven by only by emotions and feelings, and not as fellow human beings, intelligent, insightful, practical, and rational, made in the image of God.
Didnt need this article to know this truth.
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