The Allure of the Bad Boy / the Mammoth Killer:

Devon Eriksen:

"It's stupidly simple. Human mating patterns are evolved for high risk male survival tasks with high male mortality rates. Under paleolithic conditions, men hunted dangerous game with spears, and fought hostile tribes. Women evolved to mate with the winners and survivors, who were badass men of action. But today, there are no jobs open for stone-spear-mammoth-hunters. Civilization requires thoughtful men who can work in teams to build things. Female ovarian tingles require mammoth killers. Every social more of every successful society is designed to convince women that thoughtful builders are badass mammoth killers. Societies that fail at this die. Because only a psychopath, or a pickup artist who has learned to fake psychopathy, can build things all day, and then go out and imitate the mannerisms of a mammoth killer."