Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-05-07
Books mentioned on DEBATE: Why Do Gen Z Women Hate Men So Much? - #1094
In this evolutionary psychology debate, we explore: - Why women feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them. - Why men are more often demonised and women are seen as victims.
Chris Williamson discussed Models by Mark Manson and Mate by Tucker Max and others. William Costello discussed The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Models
Models by Mark Manson is a modern dating advice book that focuses on self-development and honesty rather than manipulative pickup tactics.
Discussed“Mark Manson's models came out in what 2014? Have you ever read that book? Probably not. So Mark Manson before he did the subtle art, he wrote Models.”
Where to get it
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Mate
Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology-inspired dating and self-improvement guide designed to help men understand modern dating markets and relationship dynamics.
Discussed“And then Jeffrey Miller and Tucker Max did Mate. So the twocar garage for guys. It gets a bit old. It's kind of showing my age weirdly cuz they're both written in the teens or the tens. Uh Mate by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller.”
Where to get it
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould is a well-known critical examination of the history of scientific racism, biological determinism, and the misuse of intelligence testing.
Discussed“Now that title is strategic because there was a famous book called the mismeasure of men by uh Steven Jay Gould who was very critical of evolutionary psychology and evolutionary approaches to human behavior and we think it's the precise opposite that's happening in scale development in psychology now that a a lack of insight into evolutionary psychology and just”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“So Mark Manson before he did the subtle art, he wrote Models.”
“after Fifty Shades of Gray came out and the dark romance genre really started to pick up steam, which obviously I contributed to, and there was a world where this was politically inconvenient, especially for the sort of feminist side of the the aisle because all of the guys that were being chosen to be the protagonists were highly dominant,”