Miriam LindnerĪll of these factors, paired with online dating - an environment that amplifies users’ perceptions of being desirable - have contributed to the rise of violent male ideologies. Most incels do not commit violent acts, but some have asserted violent domination through mass shootings. Lindner cites research by Anna Brown at the Pew Research Center, which found that, “Sixty-one percent of single men were looking for a relationship or dates, but only 38 percent of women reported doing so.” In fact, a significant percentage of women are choosing to be celibate or single.

“Women, now that we are in a position where we don’t need to rely on a man to be financially stable, we have that freedom to express more the types of attributes that we are looking for in a long-term partner,” Lindner said. Female empowerment and medical advances (especially birth control), along with greater economic independence, means modern women have greater freedom to choose whom they want on their own terms, or even not at all. She went on to explain that while men might desire greater control over the selection process, the balance of power has shifted even more decidedly in favor of women. “If we assume that that male psychology exists, we can see how the environment can amplify or dampen that.” “An evolved male psychology makes them, on average, more likely to respond negatively to sexual aggression, and is inclined to coerce women, sexually,” Lindner said. Our ancestors have, according to scholars, passed down a set of inherited tendencies involving male aggression and female selectivity of mates. Lindner uses an evolutionary psychology framework to understand the behavior of these men amid the accelerating social and economic shifts in gender roles and the ways the internet makes possible an “ecology where incel beliefs can thrive and make violence attractive.”Įssentially, Lindner finds these behaviors are rooted in those that proved to be most evolutionarily advantageous and so more likely to be passed along to a next generation. Linder argues that despite a string of mass shootings and violent attacks by men espousing incel ideologies in recent years there has been a relative lack of research into the drivers behind the phenomenon. People need to read books instead of the opinions of brain dead sexist trolls who probably rape sheep.What happens when lonely men, embittered by a sense of failure in the sexual marketplace, find each other and form communities on the internet? The result can be deadly.Ī new paper by Harvard psychology postdoc Miriam Lindner explores the rise of male “incels,” short for involuntary celibates, and their susceptibility to extremist ideologies and behaviors. Why is it that people who want to use the animal kingdom to explain behaviors in humans are always so fµck!ng stupid? Apes that don't have to rely on a 'heat' period to mate, sexµal intercourse is used for a variety of reasons and isn't always initiated by the male. No female ape would want to be hunted by a male ape because it means that she would fµck!ng die. Ape eyes can literally be any shape (rounded, almond, angular, or a mixture). Apes are ominvors and can be predators or prey. Needless to say that other predator animals such as owls and cats have large fµck!ng eyes. First of all, what would the physical characteristics of a wolf have anything to do with human sexuality or sexµal attraction? Regular people aren't sexµally attracted to animals. I don't even know where to begin with this nonsense.

This is the dumbest sh!t I've ever read, and i feel as though I've lost IQ points from reading it. then there's guys that kinda straddle b/w these two extremes.Īlso women can have hunter/prey eyes too but I feel like its less consequential to their sëx appeal? cause some guys are really into either look whereas I feel like w/ women we mostly want men that exude that hunter sëx appeal cause its more masculine.Īs I was writing this I also started thinking, maybe its not the eyes but its the personality, and it just so happens that guys w/ hunter eyes have personalities that I like more, like bad boy personalities? but then how come every hunter guy I know has more of a bad boy, masculine personality and the preys are more feminine and sweeter? like maybe they just have less masculine hormones that played a role in both their physical appearance and their inner behaviour? this might not even make sense I'm just theorizing right now. I think if a man has 'hunter eyes' and more 'hunter features' they are given so much sëx appeal automatically, and a man w/ prey eyes and more prey features are at a disadvantage. Obviously there are variations to this and not every person can fit neatly into either/or category, but I find it interesting.

Prey eyes incel