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Barbara Streisand was laughing so hard Elton John came out of her nose..
Helena (10-29-2019)
I avoid psycho-social definitions because I think they are largely false. Good for stereotyping and chit-chat but not much else. I understand psychopathy to mean the same thing as sociopathy.
Here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorl.../#5e508c64104a
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2013/1...ociopaths.html
https://hbr.org/2004/10/executive-psychopaths
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/amrita...b_7965882.html
One source includes in a list of what it calls famous sociopaths, Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy and a couple of other serial killers, so it's not a flattering label to have. But they also can be very successful in business owing to the qualities of being dedicated, focused, driven people.
Steve Jobs, an entrepreneur and businessman of epic stature, however, was not generally considered a sociopath despite the contempt he engendered in some of his employees for his cold, driven attitude. They waited until he was dead before they let him have it too, which suggests they felt hghly threatened by him for whatever reason. Probably an $#@!, RIP.
Actually, I'm not sure what a sociopath is or even if there is such a thing.
The term has such negative connotations that one would be advised not to use it to describe someone else, at least not while in their company. ("$#@!" works very well and means next to nothing.) I've used it sometimes, however. If a person is labeled a sociopath often enough by his peers, he's probably someone to at least be alert to. Although it apparently can be either good or bad, it's mostly bad. These people are generally not well-liked, except that some women find them very sexy, which is not the same thing as likeability.
Miranda Priestly in the Devil Wears Prada is described as a sociopath. Definitely not sexy. How many of her do you know?
Congratulations to our President Trump on taking out top ISIS terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi!
FindersKeepers (10-30-2019),Helena (10-29-2019)
On the one hand, confidence can be attractive in general.
On the other hand, a lot of women that go for the bad boy types have a history of being abused as a child. In short, if a woman has been subjected to an abusive father, she may end up being attracted to men who act the same way.
It's rare to find a woman that likes the bad boy types who doesn't have daddy issues.
Sociopathy and psycopathy are very similar, but not the same. Sociopaths are considerably more common than you might think, and most are perfectly harmless, if lacking in empathy and displaying a certain disregard for both personal safety and that of others.
Psycopathy are the extreme end of that. All psycopathy are sociopaths but not all sociopaths are psycopathy.
In the interests of full disclosure I should mention I am a well adjusted sociopath.
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I'd have to guess that the ones who correspond with, and in some cases marry prisoners serving life sentences or who are on death row are in a slightly different category than the ones who actually date dangerous men out in the real world. They are aroused by the danger - also possibly by the notoriety (which they see as fame) that such behavior gains them - but at the same time they are physically safe.
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“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.”
- attributed to Sitting Bull
"I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude. Tenacity gets me where I want to go, and gratitude keeps me from being angry on the way." - Henry Winkler
Helena (10-29-2019)
“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.”
- attributed to Sitting Bull
"I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude. Tenacity gets me where I want to go, and gratitude keeps me from being angry on the way." - Henry Winkler