Posted by:
toto
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Date: January 29, 2013 08:10PM
The morg's disciplinary system and subsequent member participation are abusive. According to categories on the Power and Control Wheel, I was abused while a member and then when I left. Some of the issues I suffered from:
Exclusion: controlling who people talk with, what people read, limit outside involvement (ex: in the morg I was told to read only approved church manuals and couldn't talk with those who were against the teachings of the lard; outside of the morg, I was isolated from those in the church because I was deemed evil)
Minimizing, denying, blaming: not taking the abuse seriously (ex: sister toto, you aren't being denied the priesthood, you just need to concern yourself with your motherly duties instead)
Social standing: treating someone like a servant, making all the big decisions, being the one to define all roles (ex: White male relatives on top and everyone else on the bottom listening to what they say and adoring them, too)
Power and Control Wheel:
http://www.novabucks.org/images/Power_and_Control_Wheel_large.gif