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Antisocial

Antisocial Personality Disorder is perhaps one of the most recognized and identified in modern literature and entertainment. It has been called Sociopathic Personality and Psychopathic personality in previous versions of the DSM. It refers to a pattern of disregard for the rights of others, including the violation of these rights and the failure to feel empathy for victims. They may be impulsive and act on their anger of misperceived injustice they project onto others. Some research suggests that there is a large percentage of individuals currently incarcerated with this disorder, as their actions and views of the world very frequently get them into trouble with the law.

Borderline

This is another disorder that has received some attention in the entertainment arena. It includes a pattern of instability in personal relationships, including frequent bouts of clinginess and affection and anger and resentment, often cycling between these two extremes at a rapid pace. They fear abandonment and this fear will often result in anger and aggressive behavior or acts that are used to 'make' others love them or stay with them. These acts include psuedo-suicidal behavior, self-mutilating behavior such as cutting, and instability of mood.

I was diagnosed with sociopathic/borderline personality disorder. Sociopathic was ridiculous, and showed just what a moron the psych was. Borderline was more justifiable, but to the extent that I exibited those behaviours, it was responsive to the environment, rather than being an innate personal characteristic.

Lili Marlene Wrote:

When I wrote that I think that controlling behaviour can be a male trait, I was thinking about the way that rules that control the sexual and social behaviour of women is a part of so many cultures and religions, but the controlling of male behaviour is just a minor thing.

You think?

To choose just one example, many societies practice military conscription for men, sending hundreds of thousands of them to their deaths every year. That sounds like pretty major control of their behaviour to me.

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I was thinking of stuff like veils and Islam (and there are some Christian tradtions of veiling females too, the wedding veil, the Catholic church veil and some Christian nuns wear a veil the same as a hijab).

There a traditional dress-code for men too.

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I believe there are important rules in Islam that control the behaviour of women only.

I'm not especially familiar with Islam, but most societies have prescribe different rules for men and women, and not always to men's advantage.

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There is the tradtion of female mutilation across a number of countries, religions and continents.

There's also a tradition of male mutilation.

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It appears that males wishing to control females is a human universal trait.

That fallacy here is that if females are to be controlled, it must be men who are doing the controlling, to take one of your examples, FGM is usually perpetrated by women, and it is often older women who are most resistant to efforts to abolish the practice.

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