Great article. Just wanted to pull a couple of quotes in case anybody wasn't feeling like reading the whole thing.

The part I bolded reminds me of the pressure for people to lie about a trans person's sex and use the wrong pronouns, or else face character defamation.

Forced teaming is a term employed by those who work on abuse, grooming and predation. It was originally coined by Gavin De Becker in his work The Gift of Fear and is also used as a concept regarding criminal activity such as con-artists and romantic scamming. The predator will create the idea that there is a shared goal, or an attitude of we are all in this together, we are allies, in order to disarm, gain trust and manipulate his target.

The social contract that most people have been educated or raised in – that we should try not to offend others, be polite, be accommodating – makes forced teaming incredibly difficult to resist. In general, we don’t want to be rude and say ‘actually, your problems or goals are different to mine and so no, we should not work together’ or ‘no, I don’t feel comfortable with this’. The shared goal can be, on an individual level, as small as a man helping carry shopping to a woman’s apartment in order to gain access and rape her. Forced teaming confuses our intuition and disarms us to threat.

... ‘people use words such as “we” and “us” to trick others into thinking they are part of a team’ when they aren’t. It builds trust when none should be there.