“Stop trying to brainwash women with your patriarchy bullshit, bigot.”
There’s this thing that gaslighters and mental enslavers do where they warn against the key ways that someone might try to free them from their mental prisons, accusing people who would do so of trying to enslave the person. When done successfully, the victim will then fight the liberator to stay in chains.
For example, if someone hated black people and wanted them in perpetual debt, they might try and convince them that holding a solvent budget while living frugally, practicing wise investment, delaying self gratification, and working diligently, are all tricks of the white man designed to keep them from getting the things they want and excluding black people from enjoying wealth, when in reality these are wealth building mechanisms, and it is the person trying to sell bad financial practices to someone by exploiting their fears and misgivings who is trying to keep that person down.
Once the person adopts that narrative, they will defend it, no matter how ridiculous it is. Feminism exploits women the same way - frames men as the enemy, selfishness as liberation, self-gratification and destruction of society as the path to gain happiness.
I suspect that the means to overcome this is by finding the emotional need that the false story is meeting, and telling a better story that meets the same emotional need while leading that person to the truth.
“Stop trying to brainwash women with your patriarchy bullshit, bigot.”
There’s this thing that gaslighters and mental enslavers do where they warn against the key ways that someone might try to free them from their mental prisons, accusing people who would do so of trying to enslave the person. When done successfully, the victim will then fight the liberator to stay in chains.
For example, if someone hated black people and wanted them in perpetual debt, they might try and convince them that holding a solvent budget while living frugally, practicing wise investment, delaying self gratification, and working diligently, are all tricks of the white man designed to keep them from getting the things they want and excluding black people from enjoying wealth, when in reality these are wealth building mechanisms, and it is the person trying to sell bad financial practices to someone by exploiting their fears and misgivings who is trying to keep that person down.
Once the person adopts that narrative, they will defend it, no matter how ridiculous it is. Feminism exploits women the same way - frames men as the enemy, selfishness as liberation, self-gratification and destruction of society as the path to gain happiness.
I suspect that the means to overcome this is by finding the emotional need that the false story is meeting, and telling a better story that meets the same emotional need while leading that person to the truth.
We got any writers in here?