Is there a 12 step cure for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Published by punkass marc June 30th, 2006 in Feminism, Mutterings Of The DisturbedAbout an hour ago, Carey Roberts, the mean old man that lived down the block when you were a kid who used to leave the lights off on Halloween and would conveniently place his garbage cans in the sidewalk so those “ruffians on big wheels” wouldn’t tear through the neighborhood like Hell’s Angels on Fun Dip, has posted his TWELVE-STEP FEMINIST CURE.
Naturally, there’s the build-up first:
With my own eyes I’ve seen bright, caring women fall under the sway of its deceptive allure. They soon begin to speak and act like someone possessed.
No, he hasn’t. Roberts has never seen a woman become a feminist; I’d stake my bocce ball set on it. Yes, feminists do be come possessed, controlled by that horrible affliction known as free will.
As the condition progresses, serious psychiatric symptoms begin to appear, including paranoia, hysteria, and intense anger. Some of these persons become diagnosed with conditions such as borderline personality disorder.
Oh, Carey. One wonders why he writes when he so clearly hopes his audience is illiterate.
To “defend” this claim, Roberts links to a seven-year-old article from something called the “Orange County Community Resources.” Of course, it turns out the article describes Roberts and not feminists:
Also common is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) — more often seen in men. There is a great preoccupation with the self to the exclusion of others. This may be the vulnerable type, which can appear similar to BPD, causing distorted perceptions of victimization followed by intense anger (such as in domestic violence or murder, for example the San Diego case of Betty Broderick). Or this can be the invulnerable type, who is detached, believes he is very superior and feels automatically entitled to special treatment.
Wow. I can’t believe it. Roberts linked to an article describing the wingnut POV as a disease. Everything we’ve ever noted about their extreme egocentrism can be summed up right there.
After that, Roberts lets his mind wander as he links to a picture of Dworkin and says feminists could get help at abortion therapy retreats. Smooth talker, that Roberts.
He then links to a brutally incompetant ramble from 1998 as part of this freudian slip:
Other women got involved in a rogue form of counseling called “feminist psychotherapy,” which teaches patients that patriarchy is the cause of all their woes. [Read] Imagine going to a counselor to get help for your abusive tendencies, and being told join the N.O.W. for the cure! Wonder how much they charge for that advice?
Huh? Abusive tendencies? Wha? You mean yours? That’s what you go to therapy for, right, Roberts? Otherwise… because… just.. huh? MEDIC!!
Now, to the steps:
1. We admitted we were powerless over feminism — that our lives had become bitter, lonely, and meaningless.
For his sake, I’ll assume that Roberts is using “we” to describe feminists and not raging assholes who might be finding it harder to get a date once the wives/girlfriends/random ladies they accosted decided they didn’t need to take their bullshit anymore.
Something I’ve always found funny about the antifems is their insistence that the women involved are miserable. Now, call me crazy, but if some social movement drove its participants to become bitter, lonely, and devoid of meaning, I don’t think it would last too long or become enough of a scourge to spend your nights popping Alka Selzers over. Wouldn’t it just fade into obscurity? So, uh, pardon me if I don’t think even diehards like Roberts believe this, though I’m sure his NPD makes it easier to lie to himself so he can demand women who’ll submissively squirt-cheese his Ritz crackers for him.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
AND THAT POWER IS CAREY ROBERTS!!! [Damn NPD.]
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. (That’s right, Him. Now’s the time to get rid of that Wiccan broomstick stashed in your closet.)
I’d like to take this time to point out he ends his article stating that “these women deserve our compassion and understanding.” So I’m sure the broomstick line was a typo from when his cat walked on the keyboard.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (Hint: Humility is the first step in the path to self-awareness.)
If that’s the case, where does Roberts rank on the self-awareness scale? I’d wager somewhere between a mollusc and a fart.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character — despite the self-professed good intentions of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
How many rosaries would a woman have to say for the sinful request of “I asked him not to stick it in me while I sleep?”
8. We made a list of all men and women we had harmed, living and unborn, and became willing to make amends to them. (Practice saying, “I’m sorry” in front of the mirror each morning.)
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would be impossible, or would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. (If you haven’t already taken your name off the Feminist Majority alert list, do it now.)
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to feminists, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
If you ever needed reason to fear the sway of godbaggery, this kind of chatter is it.
He takes 7 steps to say (and this is paraphrased):
Dammit, woman, stop loving yourself and love God so we can beat all that independence, which is a sin, right out of you.
Now fetch me my NPD medicine. YOUR LORD AND MASTER COMMANDETH IT. And do it with a little humility next time, you ungrateful bitch. [makes slapping gesture]
Praise God.
21 Responses to “Is there a 12 step cure for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?”
- 1 Pingback on Jul 1st, 2006 at 8:40 am
As the condition progresses, serious psychiatric symptoms begin to appear, including paranoia, hysteria, and intense anger.
OK, let’s parse this one:
1. One unsubstantiated psychiatric diagnosis of millions of people
2. One old white asshole.
Yep, I knew it. Patriarchy, NEXT!*
(* sorry r. mildred, for outright intellectual theft, but I had to.)
Something I’ve always found funny about the antifems is their insistence that the women involved are miserable.
And they almost always throw off some comment about what a woman would have to do to get into their pants. Because the reason they’re not getting laid is that their standards are too high.
WTF - is this guy for real? What the hell is he talking about? How many “unborn men and women” could these feminists have harmed? What is he asking for exactly?
“Dear ova, I’m sorry I took the pill which prevented you from being released each month and turning into an unborn man or woman. If you were in any way a conscious being, I’m sure you would have been terribly hurt by my decision to control my own reproductive life. I’d like to make amends by buying you all your own little miniature bibles and injecting them directly into my ovaries.”
Duh, Floyd. Don’t you know? Having an abortion (or forcing one on your girlfriend) is an entry qualification to feminism. I’m eagerly awaiting my next pregnancy so I can fully become a part of the club since I screwed up and kept the baby last time.
Having an abortion (or forcing one on your girlfriend) is an entry qualification to feminism.
Yeah, I’m knocking my GF up tonight, just to take her to the clinic in two weeks time. I gots to get my feminism certification.
Just make sure someone doesn’t steal her away from you on your way in, Jack. You’ll be facing off against real men of character, you know.
Ahh, Carey Roberts. It’s amazing how many people still take him seriously considering he’s still writing about 1975 or so. Marxists! Marxist feminists everywhere! They’re in his head! They won’t stop shouting at him! They control everything! And apparantly the only thing can defeat them is super-human levels of crotchetiness.
So I’m sure the broomstick line was a typo from when his cat walked on the keyboard.
Is it wrong that I actually LOL’d? I’m sort of embarrassed about it.
For a change, I have nothing “substantial” to add; I merely want to point the sheer brilliance of this punkass prosody.
YAY PUNKASS, fight the power. Carey’s out there of course, but he is channeling some prevalent wingnut mental health positions on women in therapy; a movement of professionals who are working to eliminate the best schools and practices. Fuck that shit, the first person to care for me in my life was a feminist therapist, to this day she’s one of my heroes.
It’s what he links to that lends supposed credibility.
That screed The Patriarchy Made Me Do It was written in ‘98 by Sally Satel, before she gained prominence as a hatefilled psychiatrist and columnist on NRO. She and all the other traitors have been above reproach for years, and she, personally is finally getting her ass handed back by equally prominent advocates and watchdogs. It’s up to the riff-raff now, our turn to take them down. Inspire us punkass, it is time for this.
NPD is incurable, you silly worms.
Wow.
For that to be true NPD would have to yaknow, exist and shit.
Why is it always the whack jobs in denial that try to argue the existence of their fucked upness? Memories of playing on the front middleclass lawn? Holding on to that?
Why don’t you drag your lump of cells over for an extended weekend, and I’ll make you a true believer of the existence of NPD.
Oh wait, since you’re likely American, your reality is defined by celebrity examples. Well it just so happens that history is saturated with pretty messy narcissists, how about: Hitler, Stalin and 95% on the list of the most celebrated serial killers?
Or do you think these individuals were engaging in male hobbies? The truth is probably much more profane. NPD’s are basically ruthless and pathetic attention whores (my apology to women of that important trade), but they always find their audience - as evidenced by you.
Fuck scholarship, a weekend at your house is all it takes to prove NPD exists, you don’t say! I’ll take a pass, thanks, and stick with the discourse, while undoubtedly not as lively as what goes on in your evidence-based NPD household, does bear implication for real lives in the real world.
What the fuck is NPD’s problem. It hasn’t made a cogent argument yet. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??!
Well said, Jack.
Why don’t you drag your lump of cells over for an extended weekend, and I’ll make you a true believer of the existence of NPD.
I’ll, uh, take your word for it.
::cough::
I got a personality disorder which made me to assume as a child that I’m abandoned royalty, and that I’m a genius at the level of Einstein - while really I’m a very average loser - I’m totally free not to make sense. But I think the human I was talking to got my drift.
No will you excuse me, common people bore the death out of me, I’ve honored this blog with my presence long enough.
The weird thing is, I have absolutely no idea whether that person was serious or not. Or whether that makes a difference.
Sounds like some of these people really need to be close to a medic alert system, just in case!