William Costello is an honorary research associate at Swansea University, specializing in incel psychology. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of involuntary celibacy, including self-perceived mate value, misconceptions about female mate preferences, and mental health challenges. Follow William on X - https://x.com/CostelloWilliam SPONSOR. Pure Gold. Protect your wealth with The Pure Gold Company. Get your free investor guide at https://pure-gold.co/trigger SPONSOR. Get timeless looks with modern comfort from Mack Weldon. Go to MackWeldon.com and get 25% off your first order of $125 or more with promo code TRIGGER. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Introduction 04:55 Does Adolescence Depict Real Life? 09:11 The Race Discussion 15:36 Toxic Masculinity 19:25 Incel Behaviours 27:26 Consequences Of Children Having Unfettered Internet Access 30:46 Why Andrew Tate Appeals To Young Men 32:30 Adolescence Speaks To Parents Fears 42:25 The Importance Of Sport 47:31 The Lack Of Discipline And Respect In Schools 55:35 Will The Film Cause A Moral Panic? 01:04:01 What's The Thing We're Not Talking About That We Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The film was powerful. I thought it made some really important points. I am almost certain it's going to cause a moral panic.
It's somewhat disconcerting for me, having researched this topic, to see this show being brought up in Parliament. Policy decisions from our politicians should be based on sober research rather than a piece of performance art. Violence towards others and killing people, mass shootings and things like that is not the only harm associated with incel ideology.
You have an opportunity cost of a generation of young men kind of giving up on dating. I should be clear that the evidence for these manosphere-inspired violence, like Jamie, is very thin on the ground. There hasn't been a whole lot of cases like this.
Endlich macht unser Nemo Boards Shop dadurch auch auf den Mobilgeräten eine gute Figur. Und die Illustrationen auf den Boards kommen jetzt viel, viel klarer rüber, was uns ja auch wichtig ist und was unsere Marke auch ausmacht.
William, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. It's great to have you on. You are a go-to guy on all things to do within sales, manosphere, etc. We had a great first conversation with you three years ago. And now we've got this series on Netflix, which is on course to be the most watched thing on there, Adolescence. You messaged us saying there's a lot to talk about. What did you make of it?
Yeah, so it's making a huge splash and it's shining a light on my topic of research, so the incel topic or the manosphere more broadly. The first couple of things I'd really want to clarify from the outset is that it's somewhat disconcerting for me, having researched this topic, to see this show being brought up in Parliament.
So Prime Minister Starmer was asked if he'd seen the show, if he'd have plans to play the show for politicians in Parliament. and he said that he might and he even misspoke and he described the show as a documentary at first which i'm unsympathetic to a um misspeaking but the fact that that might be the tendency to over inflate the the remit of this show so in my opinion
policy decisions from our politicians should be based on sober research rather than a piece of performance art, no matter how powerful that piece of art is. So that's kind of disconcerting. And I'd hope that the additional interest that the show has brought to this topic would shine a light on the real research on the topic rather than just the show itself, because
The show itself, it's a piece of fiction, and it's not very typical of prototypical knife crime in the UK. I think it is a plausible depiction of how incel violence may occur, but there's no typical instance of incel violence that this is based on. There has been no case like that is depicted in the Netflix show.
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