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Weaponized Incompetence: When Helplessness Becomes Control

Weaponized incompetence is deliberate or learned helplessness used to avoid responsibility, producing over/underfunctioning imbalances that harm relationships, teams, and collaboration.

Psychology

fromBusiness Insider

1 month ago

Weaponized incompetence isn't just a problem for couples. Here's how your coworker might be taking advantage of you.

Weaponized incompetence is deliberately feigning poor performance to avoid responsibility, shifting tasks to others in personal and workplace contexts.

Relationships

fromScary Mommy

1 month ago

Here's How To Tell If Someone Is Using Weaponized Incompetence

Partners should learn household skills instead of feigning incompetence; unequal childhood socialization produces domestic labor disparities and skill gaps.

fromBusiness Insider

2 months ago

Divorce attorneys are noticing a familiar complaint from married women

'You know everything, inside and out, about your favorite car. All the things that you truly care about, you know all the details,' Mila recalled thinking about him. 'But when it comes to basic necessities like getting groceries, buying stuff for our child, remembering things about us, you act as if you're incompetent.'