Rob Henderson
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881 appearances
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4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 6 Aug
Rob Henderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right. Yeah. There's that kind of outgroup homogeneity effect of like any man who comments on relationships or talks or talks about women in a stereotypical way. They're all part of that same Andrew Tate, Red Pill, Manosphere. That's all the same sort of collapse into the same group.
But, yeah, I think that's right that like even even sort of politically, you know, the those findings about how generally if you if you measure the political attitudes of insults, they tend to lean center left. They probably don't really have sophisticated politics in general. They're just kind of upset. They're falling behind in terms of status, in terms of income.
They don't view themselves as particularly desirable or attractive. And, you know, their politics are probably like completely orthogonal, unrelated to however they're feeling about themselves in relationships. But it's just easy to sort of vaguely collapse Tate and Trump and everything that you don't like into, you know, they're all just these domineering evil men.
And also incels are in there too, somehow, even though Andrew Tate and Donald Trump are like kind of the like literal opposite of incels and like every kind of way in terms of income, in terms of success, in terms of women and everything else. So yeah, it's, you know, the show was, and then like, you know, I think the show, honestly, it could have been braver if they had an uglier kid.
The kid is like, he was a perfectly nice looking 12, 13 year old boy or whatever. And if they had had an uglier kid, I think you would have felt like, I think maybe it would have been dangerously close to making him too sympathetic. You know, like, like, you know, it's like, Oh, if he's like, if he's a good looking kid, what does he have to complain about?
But if you had an ugly kid, you might actually feel like, yeah, it does kind of suck being physically unattractive. And then you might leap to, well, you know, he wasn't justified, but like, if you're an ugly kid and you're being made fun of and, and, and then, um,
Oh yeah. Yeah. That's that's it. Yeah. Well, there was that scene with him and the psychiatrist where he like asked, like, do you think I'm ugly? And I guess that that is like an incel trope of like, you know, you're, you're every, you know, you're all ugly. If you're not in the top 20% or top 10%, then you're just ugly. You're invisible to women.
And he was trying to get this weird sense of validation from, from this woman, the psychiatrist. Um, asking her to give her assessment of him. And he mentioned something about, oh, you're pretty. And I think it would have meant something to this boy to have a pretty woman say, oh, actually you're not ugly. But I think she asked him back. Her, her response was, well, do you think you're ugly?
Cause she's interested in what he thinks. But yeah, I think, um, yeah, that would have been an interesting route to go because there was nothing, there was nothing like he didn't have a lisp, you know, he wasn't overweight. Like there could have been something, something that added a little bit more legitimacy to his character. Um, Yeah, but you're right.
I think there were, yeah, maybe spare IQ points for the producers here. But, you know, they cast like a very normal, very nice looking kid with nothing apparently wrong with him.
And so then, you know, which I guess maybe there is a kind of a left wing sort of social constructionist idea here where we're all good looking, we're all above average, we're all on the right hand side of the bell curve, unless somehow you receive this ugly messaging from society, from the internet, from you know, evil peddlers of incel ideology or red pill ideology online.
And if we could just sort of get rid of those people, maybe silence those people, remove those accounts from the internet, then we would all finally accept that actually we're all beautiful and we, you know, there's no need to be so upset.
Yeah, well, if you're streaming it in the schools, I mean... Yeah. If the portrayal of schools in adolescence looks like that, like, you know, good luck. Like, those kids aren't going to be watching it anyway. They're all going to be on their phones. And, you know, you play a movie in class. I know those kids are actually going to be watching it. So, I mean, who's that for exactly?
So, yeah, I mean, I guess it makes people feel good about themselves. You know, they're sort of the more... quasi-conspiratorial corners of Twitter where they were like, you know, one point of this whole series is to essentially help to crystallize a consensus that we need to increase the level of censorship online.
You know, if the belief among sort of policymakers and tastemakers and cultural influencers is, oh, like, you know, these accounts, this ideology is leading boys to stab girls, then we need to start shutting down accounts, start, you know, patrolling the limits of, you know, acceptable speech online.
And, you know, I don't know if that was, you know, the intent behind, like, let's make this show so that we can silence voices or something like that. But I do think that there are people who work in a lot of mainstream media outlets who don't like, you know, certain influencers, certain social media platforms or what have you.
And if they can shine a light on this show and get it to become a thing and help to contribute to this consensus, then, you know, they're, they're basically, it's not, it wasn't the original intent, but you know, it's a, it's a, it's a happy sort of by-product of the show being around and, being in a position to amplify its message and get people to watch it.
Yeah, well, one of the things that I point out right away in that piece, how to choose a romantic partner is, you know, study after study finds, you know, you look at research on happiness, on well-being, on life satisfaction, that the two biggest factors are what you do for work and your your marriage and family life, you know, your choice of spouse. And that makes sense.
I mean, if nothing else, mathematically, it makes sense because you're going to spend most of your life on the job, whatever job you work, your career and then with your family. And that takes up the bulk of your time.
And so one thing that occurred to me as I was writing that piece is just how much information there is out there about, you know, how to become educationally and occupationally successful. Here are the steps you need to go to college. Here are the steps you need to take to master a job interview. You know, here's the pathway to become a successful doctor, lawyer, what have you.
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