“Surviving” the cult as the #2 in charge? That’s like saying Himler “survived” (until he didn’t) Nazi Germany despite being the one to orchestrate most of the atrocities.
She was completely brainwashed by Raniere, and became part of a harem of women who serviced his every need.
This type of language just infantalizes women and makes them seem helpless to control themselves around a man. It’s also plausible that she got drunk on power from having so much control over other people.
Stop letting celebrities white wash their past in order to make a comeback.
This type of language just infantalizes women and makes them seem helpless to control themselves around a man.
That wasn’t my takeaway. Pick your cult, all of them prove that both men and women can be brainwashed. It doesn’t even seem that hard.
It’s also plausible that she got drunk on power from having so much control over other people.
That is equally possible, and the fact that she was his #2 doesn’t bode well for her being a victim here
That wasn’t my takeaway. Pick your cult, all of them prove that both men and women can be brainwashed. It doesn’t even seem that hard.
Sure anybody can be brainwashed, but the article is framing it like these helpless women were only doing it because they were under the spell of this wicked man and bear little responsibility for their actions. Even the criminal sentencing reflects that with him getting 120 years while she got 2.
It just feels like one of those PR driven comeback stories where some POS individual spins their atrocities into something positive for themselves and everyone forgets that they’re still a terrible human being.
Was disappointed when this all came out. She was my favorite character and I liked her as an actress.
Not sure why people identify with actors. They just act like good people.
I saw two docs on this story, The Vow and Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult. The Vow was pretty bad, and made by people who led the cult and it was very apologetic about the roles they played in the cult.
The second season was made by a different production company and was better.
Seduced was made by India Oxenberg’s family and was much better.
Crazy that it was Kristin Kreuk who initially invited her to the group and she ended up becoming one of the main perpetrators while Kreuk left.
