Paul Eastwick
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 May
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When I talk about the Evo script, I'm referring to some of these ideas that originally grew out of evolutionary psychology in the 1990s.
This was genuinely part of the science, but it's really gotten spun out in our culture and online, especially in a bunch of nefarious ways.
And one of the components here does have to do with these standards that we assume that we have to meet.
Mate value is part of it.
We talked about that.
You feel like you've got to be an eight or a nine if anybody's going to pay attention to you.
And the only way to get there is to engage in radical acts of self-improvement, which can be very demoralizing for a lot of people.
Some of it ends up being pretty gendered, too.
The
early phase of evolutionary psychology really had a lot of components in there that were about how different men and women are, how different their concerns are, how different their wants and desires are.
And look, there are many domains of life where men and women are quite different, of course.
But what we've tended to see in the more recent science of attraction is
That, again, when you step away from those broader pressures and you look at what people actually like when they're meeting each other face to face, we usually don't see much in the way of gender differences.
That's even true with stuff that seems obviously gendered, like earning potential, ambition, like it's surely more important for a guy to be ambitious than for a woman to be ambitious.
But what we actually see is that, this is surprising to some folks, but when men meet
ambitious women, they tend to like them more than the less ambitious women.
That is not what I've been told on Instagram comments.
Exactly.
On Instagram, where the women are quite ambitious.
But setting that irony aside, that little boost that you get in terms of your appeal for seeming a little bit more ambitious, seeming like you've got your life together, it's there for both men and women.
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