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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Of course they are.. women are driven by feelings and emotions, and warm up to the gauzy overtures from cults.
That are mainly started by guys.
Meaning then that guys are robots. Got it.
plus women are easily hypnotized with nice shiny things like new cars from men and platinum cards and shoe sales...
If only I had known that in high school!
You mean B.J. and the Kenyan had something over them?
The “hopeychangey” cult also affected men, in fairness. Well, they were not exactly “men” because liberal “men” tend to be mostly faggots..
There is nothing strange about Jim Jones attracting African Americans. He was one himself and really pushed racial mixing.
Oops! You weren’t supposed to say that.
Islam
Yet another reason to shut down the Demonicrat Party under RICO laws.
This is the Wikipedia entry for jones personal life.
ones was born on May 13, 1931 in a rural area of Crete, Indiana[1][2] to James Thurman Jones (1887–1951), a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam (1902–1977).[3][4] Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent;[5] he later claimed partial Cherokee ancestry through his mother, but his maternal second cousin stated that this was untrue.
I disagree.
I have observed just the opposite.
While there are individual variations, many times men fall for a stupid scheme, because the sales person plays up to his ego.
Women frequently are less gullible.
Research Game
You are right. The triggers are different, but they are there.
The PUA game is effective because it goes after basic female psychology. Sport’s cars do the same for many guys.
The trick is to stop and step back and see what is pushing you a direction. Most can’t do that.
Charles Manson. Charm/charisma, the right toned message, and those who are looking for something to fill an emptiness in their lives can make for a really bad combo or it can inspire to join the Peace Corp or Marine Corp.
Scientology comes to mind. Islam of course. People searching for something bigger than themselves to believe in. It doesn’t help that the Catholic church as been so corrupted for many decades by the pervs in society. Christianity and a well grounded military can fill those voids. Some people join gangs. Some people join the biggest gang; the Police Department.
Okay - I’ll just go and make someone a sammich. (yeah, right).
Eh, men are more likely to join the KKK.
And to start cults—in order to get more women.
Those who can’t attract women by that means have no motive to run a cult.
Also men looking for multiple women.
Those with the charm to attract them are really the only ones with an incentive to start a cult.
While guys who have to prove something buy huge SUV’s/trucks jacked up where you need a stool to get to the cab.
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