Why do female psychopaths have a easier time living a double life pretending to be someone they’re not?

[Anonymous]

There are men who are convincing as well. But men aren’t as good at hiding things.

Such as a woman can seem like a very good wife and mother. A good sex life between the husband and wife. But one day the husband realizes none of the kids are his, and worse yet all of the kids have different fathers.

How could a woman act so well? I know there are a lot of miserable marriages where it’s obvious someone is cheating if not both. But sometimes you don’t expect it

[Anonymous]

Women are forced to act well from an early age. It's part of how they're socialized in society and one of the reasons autistic women can mask better and have a harder time getting diagnosed (generally).

But more relevant to the topic, people who have certain mental conditions often learn how to act "normal" because they need to to not be seen as a freak or evil. Many only do this to fit in. Some, unfortunately, use this to make themself unsuspecting and get away with all kinds of horrible things.

Abusers often turn the victims friends against them by being so charming they don't believe they could really be an abuser, so they don't believe the victim. There have been too many cases where a serial killer turns out to be a normal man with a normal family who had no idea he did anything unusual in his spare time. Of course there are women in these groups as well, and cheating falls into the category of a horrible thing.

[Asker]

Psychopaths are becoming more common. Stop blaming society for a persons bad choices. People choose to be the way they are perjod

[Opinion Owner]

Im not blaming society for psychopaths. I'm blaming society for teaching girls how to act from an early age. There have been studies on this, it's not just innate in women to lie better, or psychopaths. It's learned behavior. What they use it for (namely, if they use it for bad things like leading a double life), that's 100% on them. Correct.

[strateguy632]

because they aren't really psycho they just swing with hormones part of the time. not psycho just go wild for a segment of time.

[Asker]

Uh…. Ok