Attention Seeking Gits
For those of us who have read Harry Potter books and seen the movies, the term Git is used. It is British slang. In this post we will discuss how Git’s use silly actions, strange appearance and language to attract attention themselves. This behaviors helps feed their narcissistic supply.
Key points in this Post
- What is a Git?
- All show and no go
- They do stuff to attract attention
- Attention to feeds their narcissistic supply
- Examples of these people in leadership positions
- References used in this post
Git Defined
A Git is a term of insult denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly, or childish person.
Gits Quite often are all show and no go
In other articles, we have defined the behaviors of narcissist. Narcissist use what appears silly behaviors, strange dress, language and bad behavior to feed their narcissistic supply by generating attention. Note: Not all Goth’s are personality disorder types. They see this as a rebellion against normal.
They do strange stuff to attract attention
Gits consider their strange behavior as a trademark or brand. The typical narcissist love to create an image to make sure they look different than other people. Per Stormy Daniels, Trump considers his hair and bad comb over a marketing trademark. Most of us feel it is misguided vanity. However, for a narcissistic git, they enjoy getting their minions and flying monkeys to copy them. Trump also enjoys female disfigurement of his followers and copycat dressing. Below is a result of a sell out minion.
Attention feeds their narcissistic supply
When a git has narcissistic personality disorder, they change things around to see who follows their lead. They also use their appearance as a marketing brand and to attract attention. Attention of any type helps feed their narcissistic supply. Thus they know the world is following them. Expect to see other sporting bad hair wigs in the coming weeks and months.
If you don’t pay attention to them, it hurts their ego!
Examples of these people in leadership positions
References
1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886912000244?via%3Dihub/
2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X241228234
3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886917306657?via%3Dihub/
4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886919304325?via%3Dihub/
5 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886917306657?via%3Dihub/
6 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10654167/
7 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886915300301/
8 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918300151?via%3Dihub/
9 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918300047?via%3Dihub/
10 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220221211072816
11 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajpy.12198#d1e486/
12 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/a0027914
13 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30914993/
14 https://www.fortunejournals.com/articles/exploring-the-dark-side-relationships-between-the-dark-triad-traits-and-cluster-b-personality-disorder-features.html
15 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073191113514105
16 https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-56123-001.html
17 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332728886_Dirty_Dozen_A_concise_measure_of_Dark_Triad_traits_among_at-risk_youths/
18 https://nda.nih.gov/data-structure/ca_sadist_tend01/
19 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340214884_A_Test_of_Three_Sadism_Measures_Short_Sadistic_Impulse_Scale_Varieties_of_Sadistic_Tendencies_and_Assessment_of_Sadistic_Personality/
20 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35285028/
21 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37200882/
Books and other articles
- Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman (There are several books now)
- Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
- About Minions – A quick read about the worst minions of the last century