Further basic evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle: Higher pathological narcissism is associated with greater involvement in feminist activism

Sir_Spectacular · 2024-02-04T09:07:08+00:00

Unexpectedly, gender did not moderate this relationship.

This is an interesting tidbit from the abstract. Male narcissists are just as likely as female to use feminist activism to boost their egos. Perhaps that's the origin of the so-called "white knight" personality.

Futureman999 · 2024-02-04T02:54:32+00:00

According to the dark-ego-vehicle principle (DEVP), individuals with so-called dark personalities (e.g., individuals with high narcissistic traits) are attracted to political and social activism not for the achievement of prosocial goals but to repurpose the activism to satisfy their specific ego-focused needs.

Paralleling previous research, higher pathological narcissistic grandiosity was found to be statistically significantly related to greater involvement in feminist activism.

In exploratory secondary analyses, we found that higher pathological narcissism was associated with specific feminist conversational interaction behaviors (e.g., correcting other’s non-feminist language).

Huffers1010 · 2024-02-04T13:54:45+00:00

This is blindingly obvious to anyone who's encountered this stuff in person.

A lot of the discussion on this subreddit arises from internet links and pieces of video. Find yourself in the room with the sort of unpleasant feminist extremists we often discuss here, and you'll probably know from the first introduction that you're talking to someone who is abrupt, disagreeable, frowning and engages in introductory courtesies only out of sheer social pressure. The cliché of the scowling activist is well known because it is often true.

Perhaps some of this comes from a badly-handled instinct to somehow behave in a confident and assertive manner, but either way, these people are almost always fantastically unpopular before anyone knows anything about their politics. I could give several examples.

Often I get the impression that these people people end up being unpleasant feminist extremists more or less at random, depending on their own life experiences. They're quite subject to outside influence and easy to radicalise. If they weren't doing that, they'd be unpleasant hardline socialists or unpleasant hardline conservatives or unpleasant religious fundamentalists, all equally poorly informed and simultaneously self-confident, clinging to the leftmost peak of the Dunning-Krueger. It's more or less all the same sort of zealotry and as the study shows I think it's instinctive to most people that it attracts that personality type.

But here's what matters.

I consciously draw a line between that sort of person and the sort of person who will instinctively claim to support anything called "feminism" if asked in casual conversation. That's not the same thing and this matters because the first type of person, the real nasties, are not really salvageable. They're unpleasant people and they're going to be unpleasant no matter what they believe or do. They're also rare, and their unpleasant views are only widely supported because more moderate and reasonable people instinctively support what they think is fairness, which is reasonable. We will never persuade the extremists. We need to concentrate on the middle ground.

BadmonTG23 · 2024-02-04T03:14:08+00:00

Men’s rights links worthy

HotwheelsJackOfficia · 2024-02-04T22:56:13+00:00

RockThrow was right again

Title	Further basic evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle: Higher pathological narcissism is associated with greater involvement in feminist activism
Author	Futureman999
Upvotes	84
Comments	10
Date	February 4, 2024 2:52 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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