To varying degrees yes, but they are especially manipulable by those they see as high-status. Vladimir Putin fits that bill, and you can see how masterfully he’s working it.

He was the example the professor cited when we went over NPD in Abnormal Psych over a decade ago when I took it. A clinical psychologist I’m friends with on Facebook posted a warning about his obvious NPD a month or so before the election.

Republicans are more likely to blame a rape victim too, with the exception of armed stranger rapes.

Anyone so cut off from the world as to know nothing about the Cosby allegations is clearly unfit to decide anything.

You know, I’m with her. People have made Nickelback into a running gag, and they forget that these are actually human beings. Imagine how you’d feel if you couldn’t go a day without hearing people saying you were awful at your job.

Republicans fall in line. Democrats eat their own.

Absolutely there will be terrorism of things don’t go how they want. That’s how terrorism works. If we let them control us with the threat of violence, then we’ve just made terrorism a winning strategy.

He did great with women? He barely captured white women and lost horribly with every other shade!

Please tell me those rants are saved for posterity somewhere... Last time I went looking I couldn’t find them.

Straitjacket is right. How can people stand having their legs bound for so long?

The acknowledgement is appreciated. It’s easy to feel both invisible and discouraged down here.

You’re right, and that’s both depressing and infuriating. =(

*all the sads*

That makes me smile. And cry. But mostly smile, I think.

I haven’t seen a single one lose their hero worship yet....I hope to see some soon.

THISSSSSSSS.....I’m so sick of hearing people complain about condescension! No matter how gently and tactfully and politely you try to say it, the meaning of what you’re telling them is that they believe things that are false and they will call you condescending for trying to fix that.

I didn’t even go see it. I have zero interest in ever seeing it, which is depressingly opposite from how I felt before the Depp thing. And it’s striking how deep that ambivalence is....I’m normally such a huge spoilerphobe that I can’t stand learning the slightest twist in movies, even when I have no plans to see…

The skirt is black so it’s hard to tell for sure, but it looks full enough to fall normally in the front while still being pulled up in the back. There is some rippling in the picture on that side that’s not present the other. Everything else about the picture matches her account.... The position of his hand, her…

I sent a tweet some time back, and I know I saw a lot of other similar ones. She’s made no response to any of them as far as I can tell, and she did that interview praising his acting after people started trying to get through to her. It’s so disheartening, for someone who wrote a set of books so uplifting for abuse…

It’s all about control. If the partner is obeying, there’s no need to escalate.