Militant Feminism, Teen Sexual Grooming, Borderline Types (Interview Excerpts)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2021-03-29

The classic borderline woman (diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD) turns into a secondary psychopath only when she faces rejection and abandonment, real, perceived, or anticipated.

The secondary psychopath has empathy and emotions, but her behaviors resemble those of the primary psychopath: reactance/defiance, recklessness, no impulse control (impulsivity), aggression, vindictiveness, and other forms of antisocial conduct.

The psychopathic (and the covert) borderline are primary psychopaths who display borderline traits and behaviors only in intimate settings.

When in a committed relationship, they tend to be emotionally dysregulated, approach-avoidant, mood labile, object inconstant, idealizing-devaluing, and grandiose.

Internet and localized grooming is an exponentially growing scourge.

About half of all minors between ages 12-17 are accosted online by sexual predators. One of every ten sext with these adults who rarely hide their identity and intentions. In one third of the cases (3% of all teenagers), an offline meeting is discussed and 1 in 300 adolescents proceed with the express and premeditated intention of having sex with their interlocutors. They are then often subjected to group sex, prostituted, and handed alcohol and drugs.

These underage outliers have only two things in common: 1. A fervent wish to belong to and be loved by a substitute "family" (the real one is dysfunctional and neglectful); and 2. A dark triad personality which becomes more pronounced and diagnosable as they grow up. Their dysregulated and overwhelming sexual curiosity in puberty aligns with these nascent disorders.

These kids learn that the "love" offered by the predator was exploitive and fake. But they also come to realize that they can use sex to manipulate people, wield power over them, and control others.

The unspoken taboo conundrum is this: psychopathy and borderline traits involve partly hereditary brain abnormalities and can be diagnosed even in childhood (conduct disorder). Could these flaws have propelled these specific children to seek and even initiate precocious sex with like-minded predatory adults?

Internet and localized (offline) grooming leading to actual sex had been associated with promiscuity, depression, and anxiety in later life. But promiscuity, depression, and anxiety (including social anxiety) are frequently dually diagnosed with psychopathy and BPD even when these experiences are lacking. It is impossible to prove causation in this convoluted psychological landscape. Precocious sex may simply be an early example of psychopathic acting out.

Feminism took a wrong, militant turn in the 1960s as it transitioned from justified demands for equality and access to misandry, the undermining of all social institutions (patriarchal or not), and the usurpation of gender roles (unigender, which led to gender vertigo).

These disturbing orientations were exacerbated by intersectional victimhood movements and their agendas.

Every disagreement, argument, conflict, and form of critical thinking were cast as abusive. Women and men began to resent, vilify, label - even hate - each other. This culminated in misogynistic movements such as incels and MGTOW.

Divorce heralded the greatest transfer of wealth in human history - from men to women. The academic attainments of women exceed men’s and have led to the replacement of the latter by the former in many middle-class professions.

So, now men refuse to marry and sire children. Given unlimited access to sex and unfavorable matrimonial legislation, men are left with no incentive to commit or invest in relationships.

Women and men pine for each other, cocooned in bachelor pads - but, it is way too late: the schism won’t heal and is only getting worse as people under age 25 date 56% less and lead almost celibate lifestyles.

Psychopaths do not experience mortification like narcissists do.

They have only dim stirrings of disappointment, resentment, and frustration when they are rejected.

In general, psychopaths experience only one of two (binary) mental states: feeling euphoric and (more often) feeling bad.

They respond with reactance (defiance or anger) when humiliated in public. But they are goal oriented: they shrug it off facilely and move on.

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