Macken Murphy

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And generation on generation, it's like you go from basically like not a behavior to every young man is now like every other member of Gen Z essentially is like a recreational bodybuilder.

I don't think so either.

Maybe that was a bit cheeky, but I do think it's conspicuous.

And so it's worth pointing out where it's like, I don't think that women are necessarily signaling their resources to attract men, but it's interesting that they're signaling resources more over the same time.

Beauty is the flashy one.

Parenting is the quiet one that's actually better evidenced where it's like men used to...

they recognize where it's like, well, I have the financial thing kind of sorted.

I really need like a helper at the nest a little bit more.

And that's been the preference shift.

And men have definitely responded to that.

I mean, men have tripled.

A man today spends more time with children, I believe.

I think I heard this from you that it was than women did in the 1950s.

So it could be mate poaching deterrence.

It could also be just kind of classic high status to low status threat behavior.

I remember literally the first day of my PhD, arrived in Melbourne and went for a walk with Candice.

And I asked her this exact question.

I was just like, why do you think women love the handbags?

Because I knew that she was really into the beautification stuff and that she really had her head around those things.

And she just immediately said to scare young women.

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