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#526 - William Costello - Are Incels A Threat To Society?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

William Costello is an evolutionary psychologist, writer and Ph.D. student at the University of Texas.

Men being hopeless with women is not a new phenomenon. But them self-identifying and creating a subculture around being "genetic dead ends" definitely is. William conducted some of the world's first research into the underlying psychological profile of incels to find out just what's going on.

Expect to learn why 45% of working age women will be single and childless by 2030, why many incels would rather bond over failure than over trying to improve, why women dating down is causing huge problems, whether Leonardo DiCaprio should date people his own age, whether incels are alt-right, why the claim that incels are all white men is superbly wrong and much more...

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

0:03.5

My guest today is William Costello.

0:05.8

He's an evolutionary psychologist, writer, and PhD student at the University of Texas.

0:11.1

Men being hopeless with women is not a new phenomenon,

0:14.5

but them self-identifying and creating a subculture around being genetic dead ends, definitely is.

0:20.7

William conducted some of the world's first research into the underlying psychological profile of in-cells

0:26.0

to find out just what's going on.

0:28.7

Expect to learn why 45% of working age women will be single and childless by 2030,

0:35.4

why many in-cells would rather bond over failure than over trying to improve,

0:39.8

why women dating down is causing huge problems,

0:43.3

whether Leonardo DiCaprio should date people his own age, whether in-cells are alt-right,

0:48.3

why the claim that in-cells are all white men is superbly wrong, and much more.

0:55.2

This is an absolutely fascinating insight, I love how deep William has gone into this.

1:00.6

His research within cells genuinely is some of the deepest and most thorough that's been done.

1:04.8

He had quantitative stuff in terms of this huge survey with hundreds of questions,

1:08.6

and he did some qualitative interviews as well.

1:10.2

He even got fem cells in there, so female in cells got covered too.

1:13.3

I very much appreciate how hard Williams worked to do this research,

1:16.8

and it's nice to have a different slant on this season of evolutionary psychology

1:20.6

that we're going through at the moment to look at things from a very modern novel subculture standpoint,

1:28.0

I think gives a very interesting slant on this.

1:30.8

In other news, this episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep.

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