Posted by:
Mother Who Knows
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Date: July 14, 2018 09:56AM
Crying is an over-used Mormon manipulative technique. I dated a lot in California, and at other universities, and it was only at BYU, that Mormon boys faked tears, to manipulate me into going on a date with them. I'm not kidding! These were real losers, who had nothing going for them, except their ability manipulate others, and to play the sympathy card. I would be polite. It was only after they cried, that I would run.
I have a feeling that this is the other side of the same coin as abuse. One crier, who sobbed his way into getting engaged to a friend of mine, jumped out at me in Cannon Center, dragged me to the back of the coat room, threw me onto the floor, and broke my arm. He would have raped me, but some of my football player friends heard my screams, and rescued me.
My wife-beater ex husband could cry on cue. He would beat me Sunday morning, and give a lovely, tearful testimony an hour later. Everyone thought he was so sweet and "spiruchul." When we were first dating, I tried to break up with him, but he cried, and threatened suicide (that should have warned me), until I finally agreed to continue dating him. When I divorced him, I had to file restraining orders against him, to try to stop the violent crying tantrums.
My abusive older brother used to cry, if my parents reprimanded him for his cruelty. He ended up not being punished, and was allowed to beat and torture me, at will. Psychopaths like my brother and ex-husband are experts at evoking sympathy from others. My brother could turn things around so that he was always in the role of victim. "Be kind to poor Bully-Brother, because he is so unhappy, and doesn't have any friends, and everyone picks on him."
Sort of of like the stories of Mormons always being the persecuted ones.
I'm not saying that every male weeper is a bully. I'm sure Eyring is not--but it has served him well in moving up the ranks of Mormonism. It's his schtick.
A bishop tried to hit on me and other single women, during private bishop's interviews in his office. We compared notes. He tried to gain sympathy, saying how lonely he was in his marriage, and that he was "enduring to the end" with his awful wife. He would get real tears in his eyes. The other women were nicer, but I told him that he was abusing his position as bishop, and was a repulsive little weasel, and he as never going to interview me again. He frequently bore his testimony about how much he loved his Dear Wife, with tears and blubbering. He later became a mission president, temple president, and a member of the "Seventies". He had money.