Dipiti is back to discuss our top 12 red flags to look out for before joining an in-person or online women's community. Want more? Be sure to check out the bonus content available here to Whose Body Is It paid Substack subscribers.
Included in the *Bonus Convo*
- Dipiti's intentions for joining BDSM communities
- Isabella’s intentions for joining radical feminism and birth liberation groups
- How Isabella managed to avoid moving to an in person community of “liked-minded women”
- The subtle process of loyalty becoming currency and favoritism
- Shedding light on why Dipiti and Isabella aren’t going back to a popular women’s festival
- When story telling is used as an implicit threat
- Is radical feminism a cult?
- How “self-responsibility / victim consciousness” frameworks can be weaponized
- How having a shared experience of losing friends / being ostracized for knowing what a woman is isn’t necessarily a strong enough foundation for a lasting friendship
- How participating in MLMs creates an extraction lens on everyone you meet aka new connections are prioritized on them becoming your downline $$$
- How we deal with the guilt and shame of having promoted groups, companies, and influencers we’re no longer affiliated with
- The role of therapy after exiting cult-y spaces & narc abuse recovery
- How constantly trying to get to the root of things became a disability and an inability to see the bigger picture that warped our sense of reality
- Breaking the bubble of the fictional “us” & noticing exit patterns of former members of various online and in person groups
Episode Resources
Connect with Dipiti on Instagram
Women Who Run With The Wolves
Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing
Narc Abuse Recovery
How to Spot a Cult - BITE Model PDF
Other Whose Body Is It episodes with Dipiti
(Recorded in 2022) BDSM & Women’s Festivals episode with Dipiti
(Recorded in 2023) What Has Porn Done to Us?
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