Chandi Heenan Li'l Fred @Joannathelee 'You can just leave' is often used as an argument to show that a place is not a cult, because you aren't held against your will. Many cult experts, such as Daniella Mestyanek Young, have pointed out that this is indicative of a cult mindset: be all in, or go. Black and white thinking. 1/

'A good leader proves their loyalty to you [not the other way around].'
Daniella Mestyanek Young
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Uncultured, written and read by Daniella Mestyanek Young, is on national The New York Times correspondent Ernesto Londoño's queue! What audiobooks are on yours?

#booktwitter #memoir #DaniellaMestyanekYoung #audiobook #audiobook s nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Happy to see that the audiobook version of my friend Daniella Mestyanek Young's book 'Uncultured' has received a very deserved extremely favorable review in the The New York Times: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Check out my review at Goodreads here: goodreads.com/review/show/51…

Daniella Mestyanek Young I’m on page 158 of Uncultured and devouring it. A fascinating read, learning more than I could ever imagine, glad to know how this secret world works. Now you’re unlocking America, the next secret world. Must get back to reading.

Please keep your loved ones alive. Seriously. Another Children of God death by s.uicide just took place. Another cult kid society would not listen to. Millions of adult children of cults deal with this daily agony heightened during holidays. I am so sorry Daniella Mestyanek Young #cogtfi

Congrats, Daniella Mestyanek Young! 🤩 Can’t wait to receive my paperback copies later this month! #amreading #memoir #mustread #BookRecommendation

Today was fun, because the Uncultured paperback launched, & I read a portion of a chapter into my TikTok and I got flagged for a copyright violation, I think because it recognizes the text from when it was published by… Rolling Stone!

A good launch!

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This podcast:

Ha ha! I mentioned this to a friend today & she sent me this podcast where Daniella Mestyanek Young SAYS THE SAME THING!

Random thought: most of the discussion of cults from the “secular” Side focus on how groups exert control as an identifying characteristic while most of the evangelicals are still defining cults primarily based on specific “Out of bounds” beliefs.

I have been trying to get this essay, on Veterans Day, military service, and how complicated it is for women veterans, published for about four years, but women veterans…

So grateful to Open Secrets Magazine, who gave it a home

opensecretsmag.substack.com/p/women-vetera…

It is an added layer of terrifying to see the way bad actors have so quickly and effectively fanned flames on here, and they are definitely working from a white supremacy playbook. (Short 🧵)

The cult of motherhood is a thing we need to talk about and I love Daniella Mestyanek Young reading excerpts of Knocked Down on Twitter addressing issues we are often afraid to discuss

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I’m tired of saying it but I’ll say it again.

It’s the fking guns.

This is the only man I’ve heard say this. I’ve heard a lot of women say this. Every other man questioned the validity of the survey.

Any organization with a 44% rape statistic is broken.

#usarmy #departmentofdefense

And once again, I ask where are all the “good men” in uniform, who should be fucking raging about this at the top of their lungs?!?!?!

Y’all see that wounded warrior project survey that shows that nearly half, HALF, of military women have been sexually assaulted?!?

Keep telling me this group isn’t a toxic cult….

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