Incel Expert: What Netflix’s Adolescence Gets WRONG - William Costello | #18

William Costello is one of the world’s lead researchers of Incels and conducted some of the world’s first research on the psychological profile of Incels. He is also a doctoral researcher at David Buss’ evolutionary psychology lab in Austin, Texas. In this episode, William and I break down the hit Netflix show ‘Adolescence’ and analyse what it gets right vs wrong.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 What Does Adolescence Get Right and Wrong?

03:17 How Adolescence Went Against the Grain

05:34 What Is an Incel?

11:09 Is FOMO a Modern Phenomenon?

14:26 the Real Function of Misogny

18:10 Benefit Provision vs Cost Infliction Strategy

19:45 the Study That Predicts Geographical Incel Activity

22:25 Are 80% of Women Attracted to 20% of Men?

26:31 Will AI Girlfriends Take Over the Dating Market?

32:44 Are Men Manipulating or Courting Women?

37:08 How Does an Evolutionary Psychologist View the World?

38:31 How Adolescence Shows Inept Parenting & Schooling

40:50 Autism in Incels

43:56 42% of Incels Are Ethnic Minorities

45:22 Depression & Loneliness in Incels

47:01 Are Incels Really All Far Right?

50:37 Are the ‘Nice Guys’ the Evil Ones?

53:34 the Rolemate to Soulmate Transition

54:50 Women Are Not Satisfied With the Standard of Men

58:02 the Cost of Female Liberation

1:04:27 How Do We Stop the Depopulation Bomb?

1:07:27 Are Gen Z Doomers?

1:13:26 the Polygamy Molotov Cocktail

1:15:22 Advice to Incels

1:19:04 What Perception Shift Should People Have About Incels?

1:20:24 the Future of Gen Z

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ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION:

In a modern, social media-driven world where diagnoses of Gen Z anxiety, depression, and ADHD are skyrocketing, the biggest threat to a young man's life is himself, and protests line the streets of all major cities, with kids ditching school to throw soup on paintings in awareness of the Climate Crisis. How do we go about putting out the flames our society finds itself submerged in before it burns to the ground? The Next Generation takes a look at all these topical issues from the perspective of 19-year-old host, Elliot Bewick. Expect not only chats with the older 'experts' but also to hear from the people actually growing up amongst this carnage - Gen Z. The aim of this podcast isn't to complain for sympathy or increased exposure but to bend the arc of the modern world towards solutions, truth, and a love for the beautiful adventure of life itself.

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