Wokefisher: how to recognize a manipulator so you can stay away

He was quick to state that he absolutely supports gender equality, or to agree with the choice of those who go vegan for ethical reasons, while discussing the cruelty of battery farming. But after a few meetings you discover that his way of life is extremely far from what he preaches, and everything that impressed you about him does not exist in reality.

You may have fallen for a scam awakened fishermananother manipulative figure from the underwater world meet, from which it is better to stay away. But to do this, you first need to get to know him better.

What is wakefishing?

“Wokphishing” is a neologism that forms the word Awoke, that is “stay awake with your eyes open”especially in the area protection of human rights and social values, AND fishingsuffix now used in the virtual world to denote falsifying personal information or photographs on the Internet, pretend to be something you’re not. In this case, the fisherman-woke pretends to share moral and ethical values ​​for the sole purpose of “seducing” the other party.

Actually, I was the first to talk about it come up with a neologismwas a journalist Serena Smith in a Vice magazine editorial later published in the New York Post, where she told her personal story, which then served as a sounding board for thousands of women: how many of them ended up dating a man with progressive ideas, pro-integration, who drank oat milk instead of cow’s milk, but who, in fact, didn’t really care about all this? His goal was only to get you into bed, nothing more.

Who is the woke fisherman? Identikit

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The environment in which the wayfisher moves is dating apps, such as Tinder or Bumble. Here you have the opportunity study the victim’s profilecarpendon political ideologies and social valueswhich then goes into learn more about social networksto better formulate it in terms of tastes and habits. He then goes on the attack by contacting her and posing as very knowledgeable person in terms of social rights and feminism and sensitive to related issues minorities and the environment. One day he started dating and got what he wanted, that is sexual contact, interest fades and moves on to the next victim.

Analyzing the figure from a psychological point of view, we can say that the awakened fisherman is a person realizing a cunning strategy to deceive your victim

without worrying at all about the consequences. Behind it manipulative profile, some features of what is being defined may be connoted dark notebook: it can be strong traits of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism and sometimes, sadism.