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News Beep<p>Child’s death drives churches to call out coercive control and cult-like behaviour</p><p>How did one man convince 13 other people to let an eight-year-old girl die? This is the question…<br><a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/NewsBeep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsBeep</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Headlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Headlines</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/antivaxxer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antivaxxer</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/AU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AU</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/brendanstevens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brendanstevens</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christian</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/coercivecontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coercivecontrol</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/compass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compass</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/diabetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diabetes</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/elizabethstruhs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elizabethstruhs</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/pastor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pastor</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/pentecostal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pentecostal</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Queensland</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/thesaints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thesaints</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/50575/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">newsbeep.com/50575/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2316452/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2316452/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Child’s death drives churches to call out coercive control and cult-like behaviour <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AntiVaxxer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVaxxer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BrendanStevens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendanStevens</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christian</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/compass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compass</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/diabetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diabetes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElizabethStruhs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethStruhs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pastor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pastor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pentecostal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pentecostal</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queensland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Religi%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religión</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheSaints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheSaints</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>It’s not the beliefs that are the focus, it’s the strategies used to coerce &amp; control.</p><p>Using this framing I can’t help but think of the way children - &amp; all of us - are acculturated into gendered scripts. These can be enforced so brutally &amp; do so much harm. They scar us for life. As do ideas of racial &amp; cultural hierarchy for that matter. Maybe hierarchy, power (esp entitlement to define) &amp; control ARE the problem?</p><p>Thank you to the state of Victoria for conducting this enquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups. And to all the brave survivors of coercive practices, for speaking out.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cults</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/acculturation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acculturation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/healing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/victoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victoria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ResponsibleGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResponsibleGovernance</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religion/2025/08/09/we-grow-afraid-victorias-public-inquiry-cults?utm_source=Clipboard&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=read_shared_article&amp;utm_campaign=social_share_icons&amp;utm_content=sidebar_share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/r</span><span class="invisible">eligion/2025/08/09/we-grow-afraid-victorias-public-inquiry-cults?utm_source=Clipboard&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=read_shared_article&amp;utm_campaign=social_share_icons&amp;utm_content=sidebar_share</span></a></p>
quackademicCW coercive control, authoritarian parenting
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Despite some high profile successes in the prosecution of partners for coercive control, it appears (once again) many police forces are not getting it right on the ground - prosecuting the victims of conceive control for the actions they have bene forced into, rather than going after the perpetrators.</p><p>I'd like to say this is surprising, but its all too grimly predictable!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/27/domestic-abuse-survivors-coercive-control-criminalised-research-finds" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/27/domestic-abuse-survivors-coercive-control-criminalised-research-finds</span></a></p>
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)<p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CW</span></a>: talk of abuse, control, and food.</p><p>This morning at breakfast my partner apologized for leaving the heel* of the bread loaf for me, and I was reminded of how much my ex used to control my eating.</p><p>*there was another loaf thawing, so I could have easily eaten that instead of the heel.</p><p>I used to get a "talking-to" for:<br>- eating the last of anything my ex might want.<br>- not eating the last of anything my ex didn't want.<br>- asking for things I wanted (like Swiss cheese**).<br>- cooking something for myself that they liked.<br>- cooking something for myself they didn't like.<br>- not cooking things just the way they liked.<br>- eating "too much".<br>- being "too thin".</p><p>**earlier in my relationship with my current partner, while we were at the grocery store, they asked if there was any cheese I wanted. I said "I like Swiss" as I broke down crying, following up with "but I'm not really allowed to get it".</p><p>My current partner is amazing, and my ex is my ex for a lot of good reasons, and I'm happy-sad crying a bit this morning, and I just want anyone who this list resonates with to know they aren't alone—that's abuse, plain and simple—and you can get out too.</p><p>Here's some info on coercive control (just ignore the ad for BetterHelp, because fuck them):</p><p><a href="https://psychcentral.com/health/coercive-control" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psychcentral.com/health/coerci</span><span class="invisible">ve-control</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AbuseSurvivors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseSurvivors</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/EatingDisorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatingDisorders</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a></p>
quackademic<p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> is a useful concept for making visible the abuses of <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> that can occur in hierarchical relationships. </p><p>We now see them more easily in <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cults</span></a> &amp; other institutions. Perhaps our next step is to see how people raised in relations of hierarchy learn that the only way to be safe is to either become the biggest <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bully</span></a> in the room or to appease that bully. </p><p>So many of the people who achieve power in our <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> &amp; other institutions appear to operate like this. While bullying behaviour is seen as normal, or even valorised as a characteristic of alpha masculinity, our cultural framing rules (what we’re allowed to say) &amp; feeling rules (what we’re allowed to feel) obscure it from view. The consequences of a bully’s actions are seen as resulting from the personal failings of those who are harmed. Naming this dynamic becomes a dangerous act.</p><p>Sound familiar?</p><p>What if our culture‘s assumed hierarchy of human value is mistaken? What if this way of making sense of the world harms us more than it protects? What if we are all connected &amp; our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of others?</p><p>When bullies win, everyone loses. I say yay to every way we make this visible.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coercive-control-religion-geelong-revival-centre/105146234?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coe</span><span class="invisible">rcive-control-religion-geelong-revival-centre/105146234?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>This is simple bully tactics. Lead with ‘I have power now &amp; I can hurt you’. Follow with ‘if you are nice to me I’ll only hurt you a bit. Anyone who resists with be punished’. Everyone is cowed &amp; falls in line. There must always be a scapegoat to be an example to others, everyone knows that any day it could be them.</p><p>The dynamic is so familiar to anyone who experienced bullying in school. I wonder if this is how the sad man who is driving this was parented? He has clearly learned that being the one running the protection racket is the only way to be safe.</p><p>Our cultural acceptance &amp; normalising of <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> in families, schools, relationships, business &amp; governance enables these abuses.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/china-announces-84-per-cent-tariff-on-us-goods/105158558?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/chi</span><span class="invisible">na-announces-84-per-cent-tariff-on-us-goods/105158558?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other</span></a></p>
quackademicCW coercive control
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eldest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eldest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> Suffer Under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticViolence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Domesticabuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Domesticabuse</span></a> harms the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eldestchild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eldestchild</span></a> the most. Here's how to help. </p><p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/invisible-chains/202501/eldest-children-suffer-under-coercive-control-domestic-violence" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/</span><span class="invisible">invisible-chains/202501/eldest-children-suffer-under-coercive-control-domestic-violence</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>I’m watching the Netflix docuseries The Puppet Master about a con artist in the UK.</p><p>What’s standing out to me most, and it resonates with my personal experiences both in a cult and under the influence of a manipulative abuser: they have this way of making ridiculous things make perfect sense.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cults</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/MindControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindControl</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/exmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exmo</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/exmormon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exmormon</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Netflix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netflix</span></a></p>
Dr. Jack Brown :verified:<p>1 of 53/ THREAD: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BodyLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodyLanguage</span></a> Analysis No. 4701: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StevenCrowder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenCrowder</span></a>'s abuse, manipulation, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> of Hilary Crowder (Trigger Warning)<br> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BodyLanguageExpert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodyLanguageExpert</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EmotionalIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmotionalIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NonverbalCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonverbalCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BehaviorAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BehaviorAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HilaryCrowder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HilaryCrowder</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DARVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DARVO</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/tQfTaY_U3vc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/tQfTaY_U3vc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>