http://illimitablemen.com/2014/02/17/lucifers-daughter/

Ignore the date, that's the original publication date. It was overhauled yesterday.

I have updated my article on female psychopathy to better reflect my current level of writing. I'm slowly going through this process with all my older content. Even if you read the original piece I recommend reading this again. It's a lot easier to read, flows better and is overall more coherent; a testament to the improvement in my writing over the years. Enjoy.

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Dark triad women are women who possess zero negative empathy disorders; a "zero negative empathy disorder" is a term coined by autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University. It effectively means: "a lack of affective empathy" (the ability to feel what another feels as they feel it, eg: sadness) in combination with a lack of moral concern for the well-being of others. Both must be present to constitute a zero negative empathy disorder, otherwise we end up with a different classification of empathy disorder such as autism.

Zero negative empathy disorders predominantly include narcissists and psychopaths, as well as borderlines to a lesser albeit significant extent. It excludes those on the autistic spectrum who are empathy-deficient, but typically neither Machiavellian nor morality negative. This article is based upon a woman who was in my estimation a type P (psychopath) or if we are to use a clinician's term, a woman with anti-social personality disorder (ASPD).

You may see overlap in the description of women you have known diagnosed with different psychiatric disorders (bipolar, borderline, narcissistic personality disorder etc) in my descriptions of the type P here. However, such empathy deficient psychiatric disorders have marginal differences, mainly their underlying cause and the nature of their manifestation. The nature of their manifestation alluding to whether their behaviour is consistent with a personality running off a single mental schema (ASPD and NPD,) or a binary personality that follows a cyclical pattern of alternating schemas (borderline and bipolar).

People who are educated on the differences between various cluster B personality disorders will contend the last paragraph was ignorant if not controversial, but to the perception of the neurotypical person (the majority,) the outward differences manifested by cluster B personality types are superficially marginal. Case in point, going from the feedback I've had discussing female psychopathy with my readers, most men are unable to distinguish a psychopathic woman from a borderline. They think they're one and the same - but they aren't. In all fairness, the differences are marginal and one would need to get a little too close for comfort to discern such subtleties.

Nevertheless, in spite of the nuances pertaining to cause and manifestation, zero negative empathy disorders are effectively a collection of variations on psychopathy. To define psychopathic behaviour as an ASPD diagnosis rather than a lack of empathy combined with a lack of moral concern is disingenuous. Once you account for cause and manifestation, there is significant behavioural overlap between all zero negative empathy disorders.

Therefore it is prudent for the layman to term this collective group "psychopaths" and deal with them as such, for each behaves as callously and cunning as "a true psychopath" whether they have an ASPD diagnosis or not. A dark triad woman is as such, any woman with cluster B personality psychopathic inclinations, not merely a woman with an ASPD diagnosis (which is for a slew of reasons I don't want to digress into, quite rare.)

In this article I discuss the female psychopath, or as a friend and I refer to them as colloquially "a Lucifer's daughter." The term "Lucifer's daughter" was chosen to describe the cold contorted nature of the dark triad female; the choice of a religious term being to emphasise the dangerousness of such women.

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http://illimitablemen.com/2014/02/17/lucifers-daughter/