Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian became famous and rich for making a sex tape, and they spun off empires of TV shows, fashion lines, perfumes and paid appearances. The message is: one leads to the other. But it is women who made Kardashian famous. And it is women who have become the fans and consumers of everything Kardashian and books such as Fifty Shades of Grey. Using sex for money and fame, women have found a new way to feel powerful and secure without a man or even necessarily a family – Octomom has openly become a porn actress and stripper. Mothers, too, are now sexualizing their daughters and dressing them up as sexual candy for the world. Lindsay Jackson dressed her 5-year-old, Madisyn ‘Maddy’ Verst, in a sexy police uniform and a Dolly Parton outfit complete with padded breasts and padded backside for a TV reality show. And Jessica Simpson dressed her 4-month-old girl in bikinis. Porn could never have become mainstream and socially acceptable without the support and endorsement by women. In human behavior, we call this ‘the law of frequency’ -- the more often two things are linked, the more powerful that association becomes until they become inseparable. And women and the media have linked consuming porn or behaving like a porn actress with instant money, fame, power, glamour, prestige, respectability and social acceptability. In other words, if you become a porn actress or behave like one, you will triumph with all of these things. Accordingly, girls are more fascinated and driven by the desire to become famous than they are to become an engineer, doctor or scientist: Kim Kardashian has 14 million followers on Twitter.Thus, women are creating new values and morality promoting money, power and glamour as more important than intelligence, achievement, motherhood or contribution. Studies reveal that female college students are more narcissistic than males. And teenage girls are now also becoming fans of porn actors such as 26-year-old James Deen. The paradox is that women are becoming more educated than men as women surpass men in attendance and graduation rates – for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do also. But, women are failing to realize the dangers of falling for porn or promoting porn as the new fashionable profession and path to fame, riches and glory. This is the antithesis of female empowerment as MTV, Kim Kardashian and Octomom are teaching young girls to gain power over men by using sex. Women have now created false empty idols and have lost their real sense of self-worth, value and significance, replacing it with fleeting pseudo-power and artificial values and relationships, leaving them feeling unfulfilled and unsatisfied. I appeal to women to beware of being deceived and betrayed into the world of porn and sexual objectification the same way that women were tricked into smoking cigarettes in the 1920s.And Ghent needs prostitutes, so it's "win-win" all around. People, peoples and cultures can be sucked into allocating resources based on what they view as "the good." Jews view education as the good and produce scholars. When a culture views rap artists and atheletes as the good it produces rap artists and atheletes. However, not all choices are equally prudent. There is a limited number of slots for those who excel at Basketball. And the social returns from gearing a culture to excel at sports is not the same as one that produces businessmen or scientists. From a prudential standpoint, developing an ethos that caters to narcissism insance. It's easy to do, obviously. People are bent that way naturally. But there is a reason that society works hard to counter that natural impulse by holding up self-discipline and self-sacrifice as a kind of model. When we lose that model as the ideal, then where will we be?
Showing posts with label Narcissism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Narcissism. Show all posts
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Hey, Feminism! How is that future working out?
How women made porn popular:
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Men and Women,
Narcissism,
Pornography
Sunday, August 14, 2011
This explains so many things.
Although they have the qualities to climb the ladder of success, narcissists make bad leaders:
Besides this is Science!
Although they have the qualities to climb the ladder of success, narcissists make bad leaders:
They may be charming, confident and climb the job ladder with ease, but when they reach the top, narcissists are actually not very good at their roles.And, no, I'm not thinking politics; I'm thinking about narcissists that I have known in leadership positions, who have just been colossal incompetents.
Such people are often too self-obsessed to do their jobs properly, according to a study.
Those who love themselves and have vast self-confidence often impress others with their self-belief, dominance and authority, leading them to climb the career ladder effortlessly.
However, scientists have discovered that while narcissists are convincing leaders, they are so consumed by their own brilliance that it actually cripples their creativity and often causes them to make bad decisions.
They like to squirrel away information from their colleagues and are too focused on themselves to allow others to shine in the workplace, researchers said.
It also prevents proper interaction with colleagues who often vastly overestimate the ability of their overconfident bosses.
Besides this is Science!
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam proved their theory by conducting an experiment involving 150 people, split into groups of three.
One of the three was randomly assigned as group leader as part of a task intended to choose a job candidate.
Information about the candidate was handed out, some to a single member, some to the entire group.
The group was told that all three members could contribute advice, but that their leader was ultimately responsible for any decisions.
The study was designed to see how narcissistic leaders could hold back information about candidates, a tactic that could result in a less skilled person given the job, thereby damaging the company.
Questionnaires given to 'employees' and 'leaders' revealed that employees hailed narcissistic leaders as the most effective.
But they were wrong.
Leaders with the largest egos had the most negative effect on their group's overall performance.
They were too self-centred and authoritarian to communicate properly or listen to their colleagues.
Study author Barbora Nevicka, of at the University of Amsterdam, said: 'As expected, the group members rated the most narcissistic leaders as most effective.
'In fact, the groups led by the greatest egotists chose the worse candidate for the job. The narcissistic leaders had a very negative effect on their performance.
'They inhibited the communication because of self-centeredness and authoritarianism.'
She added: 'Narcissism can sometimes be useful in a leader.
'In a crisis, for instance, people feel that a strong, dominant person will take control and do the right thing,and that may reduce uncertainty and diminish stress.
'However, in the everyday life of an organization, communication, sharing of information, perspectives, and knowledge is essential to making good decisions.
'In brainstorming groups, project teams, government committees, each person brings something new. That's the benefit of teams. That's what creates a good outcome.
'Good leaders facilitate communication by asking questions and summarizing the conversation-something narcissists are too self-involved to do.'
Discussing how narcissists can flourish in politics and even lead governments, Ms Nevicka added: 'Narcissists are very convincing.
'They do tend to be picked as leaders. There's the danger - that people can be so wrong based on how others project themselves.
Labels:
Leadership,
Narcissism,
Psychology Today
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