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Tara van Dijk's avatar

Appreciate the inclusion and you taking the time to put together a review.

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Stephen's avatar

You’ve provoked so many thoughts in this wonderful piece. Here are the top ones:

- regarding feminists who refuse to admit women can be villains as can men, you seem to have hit upon the split representation of objects, per Kernberg (I believe). This happens not only at the individual level, but at the collective level of feminism as a social movement.

- With Democrats being the party of feminine cruelty, I believe I’ve ref’d this book before: https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000010478091/Michael-M.-McConaughey-The-Mirror

The author argues covert/vulnerable-sensitive narcissism is a feminine form and would theoretically explain Munchausen by proxy being primarily a female-perpetrated form of child abuse (mirroring maternal grandiosity). If we go full Christopher Lasch/The Culture of Narcissism and upscale this concept, we might draw an analogy between this and how Democrats have exploited and suppressed the black segment of US population to mirror the collective Democrat maternal/caring grandiosity. It’s a fascinating parallel.

- In terms of chasing the same ladder that men built, consider the shame etiological component of narcissism. If a woman (feminist) was unconsciously ashamed of her femine biology, she would thus unconsciously want to be… a man. There is no other choice, really.

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