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

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is William Costello. He's 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. This is an absolutely fascinating insight. I love how deep William has gone into this. His research with incels genuinely is some of the deepest and most thorough that's been done. He had quantitative stuff in terms of this huge survey with hundreds of questions. He did some qualitative interviews as well. He even got fem cells in there, so female incels got covered too. I very much appreciate how hard Williams worked to do this research. And it's nice to have a different slant on this season of evolutionary psychology that we're going through at the moment to look at things from a very modern novel subculture standpoint, I think gives a very interesting slant on this. In other news, this episode is brought to you by 8 Sleep. Good sleep is the ultimate game changer and nature's best medicine. Yet more than 30 percent of people struggle with sleep and temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep. The Pod Pro cover by 8 Sleep is the most advanced solution on the market for thermoregulation. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking. 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