Hello I m Darren Magee and today s topic is looking at Spineless Sadism, a sub type of
sadistic personality. Now sadism, that could be characterised by having the desire to hurt
others for personal gratification, for pleasure, or to assert dominance. And it's usually through
inflicting pain and humiliating others. I have made a video on sadistic personality previously
if you want to check that out. And there are four subtypes of sadistic personality.
There's Tyrannical Sadism, there's Enforcing Sadism, there's explosive Sadism, and the topic
for today's video, Spineless Sadism. And although sadism is no longer considered to be a personality
disorder, there has been renewed research recently into how it co-occurs with other personality
disorders, in particular Cluster B personality disorders such as Narcissistic Personality or
Anti Social Personality. Now with Narcissistic Personality Disorder the sadistic behaviour is
often both about pleasure and dominance, but with Anti Social Personality, for example, with
something like psychopathy, the sadistic behaviour is more like a means to an end. It's more a tool
to get them what they want. It would also be a component of what's known as the Dark Tetrad. Now
these are four sub clinical elements of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism
and sadism. Very strong components co-ocurring together, but not enough in one of those areas for
clinical diagnosis. There are three main ways in which sadisitic behaviours can manifest. There's
physical, which includes acts of violence, destruction of property. There could be theft
or sabotage of equipment. There is verbal which could include threats, harsh language, aggression,
and cruel and demeaning humour. And the lastly there s vicarious. Now this is gaining pleasure
through watching others in pain and distress, and in many cases the spineless sadist does enjoy
watching the pain and distress of others, but not necessarily take part in it. They may hide in a
crowd that is bullying someone, even egg them on and encourage them, but not necessarily carry out
the abuse themselves. The research suggests that they are deeply insecure people and often exhibit
elements of avoidant personality. And although the spineless sadist may share some traits with
the other three subtypes at their core they tend to be cowards, so tend to domineer in a
very cowardly way. For example being part of a crowd, getting the crowd to do the abuse.
They may associate with people who are aggressive, who are domineering, powerful people,
you know, like gangs or organisations and movements. The type of movements that just
pretty much want to burn the world down. And this would only be speculation on my part, but
I think they would maybe abuse people online, and the reason they do that is
because they're able to do it anonymously, hidden behind an avatar or a username.
They see somebody post something and the type of person that jumps on it starts a dogpile, or
knowing that it's going to antagonise someone they may be contacting other people saying,
Look at what this person has posted. They tend to spread rumours, gossip about people, they gossip
to those who they know conflict pain and then just watch them punish the target for them. Or they may
even feed information to opposing parties. Just to fuel the hatred, to keep that contention going.
As much as they may fear danger they often pretend to be courageous and brave. They may spin yarns,
tale tales about their bravado, their heroics, how they were able to humiliate someone, just put them
right back in their box as if that's a badge of honour. They may make promises, but never keep
them. They may continually promise someone I will call, say on Tuesday night and I will help you
with this , But they never bother showing up. It can be difficult to discern whether or not they
just lie without fear of consequences or if they really do get a kick out of disappointing people.
Now unlike the other three subtypes, and not all of them there can always be exceptions,
they are not necessarily violent or overly mean spirited. However,
they may be to those that they see as helpless, those who are maybe unable to defend themselves,
either verbally or physically. They may only threaten those they think they can domineer. Now
if someone were to challenge them to stand up to them they may retaliate with things like I'll get
the police. I'll sue you. I'll get the leader of the gang to sort you out. I'll get the supervisor.
I will have you cancelled. It's really quite childlike in a way. It's almost like the kid in
the playground trying to bully the other kids and if any other kids stand up to them, they
back away quickly with, I'll get my big brother or I'll get my big sister. They tend to run off, but
then maybe teel others about how they were at sort not target out. So that's a brief outline of some
of the common characteristics of the Spineless Sadist. As always if I've missed something,
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