Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

[endicom]

New York Times
Barry Meier
Oct. 17, 2017

ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.

To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.

The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.

Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.

More... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

[berdie]

That is creepy.

[Free Vulcan]

Ladies - any and all - if you got to go around and create sisterhoods to be empowered, brand each other, scream at the top of your lungs about how strong you are...well guess what?

You're not.

My great grandma raised at least a half her kids as a single mom after g-gpa died of pneumonia, through the Great Depression, in the South. She was a a strong woman who gave out whoopins to her boys clear up to their 18th birthday. This crap is not that.

[Frank Cannon]

This is nothing but a cult. Big deal.

[bigheadfred]

This is nothing but a cult. Big deal.

Their recruiting standards suck

[endicom]

This is nothing but a cult. Big deal.

One of the more serious ones if people are getting branded.

[mountaineer]

To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.

Wasn't there something reported many years ago about nekkid photos taken of Hillary Rodham and her fellow incoming freshmen at Wellesley College? Hmmm.