"They feared that the lesbian sexual radicals were not only making a big deal out of sexuality, which should be incidental to lesbianism, but were also deluding themselves and other women into believing that male images, fantasies, and habits were desirable for women too".
Besides, who's to say that those dying with the "certainties" of familiar ideas aren't also deluded?
Like she says in this interview, Annie Baker believes that "every single person on this planet is a genius and an idiot" and "any given person you walk by on the street could be brilliant and also deluded and insane".
But she is also, by turns, difficult, sometimes deluded (she believes, encouraged by Jon, that she can be party leader, tumour or no tumour), crude and, towards the end of her life, dependent on what Ian Paisley once referred to in her hearing as "the devil's buttermilk" (ie whiskey).
And mental health experts say that while mass murderers tend to display "deluded thinking," they're also difficult to pinpoint.
If people aren't deluding themselves, there were also a couple of contestants who'd been spurred on by parents who either love their children far too much or rue the day they were born: either one leads to the cruel undoing of their tone-deaf spawn on national television.
The mistake in the US was to allow Bear Stearns to be rescued, which only deluded Lehman Brothers into thinking they will be also saved.
But it would also be deluded.
But the newspapers may also be deluded in their sense of importance.
Many Americans also delude themselves about how much benefit they are getting from exercise, researchers say.
