A Woman’s Guide to Identifying Psychopaths, Part 2 Relationships

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Boomhauer from King of the Hill.

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Part 2 of 8 (Part 1 here [2], Part 3 here [3])

The good is one thing, and the sensuously pleasant, another. The wise choose the good. The foolish, being motivated by greed and avarice, choose the pleasant. — The Upanishads [4]

Women are attracted to psychopaths — of the factor 1 kind, anyway. In one study [5], researchers showed women videos of men on a date. The more psychopathic the man was, the more women liked him, on average. The women also said the psychopathic men looked better in still photos, proving they perceived the men as having better looks. But even after controlling for looks, the researchers discovered women still favored psychopathic men, meaning they liked their mannerisms in and of themselves.

As part of the study, the women left voice messages to the men they had seen in the videos. Researchers checked the audio for raises in vocal pitch, which is a sign of a woman liking a man, and they found that “women tended to increase the pitch of their voices for men scoring higher in the affective component of psychopathy, i.e., shallow emotions, callousness, lack of concern for others and to lower their pitch in response to men higher in the antisocial component, i.e., those who display impulsivity, irresponsibility, disregard for authority, and poor anger controls.” In other words, they like Gordon Gekko from Wall Street and not Alex from A Clockwork Orange. The only explanation I can offer for this is that being with a deceitful, narcissistic, cold-hearted rich guy like Gekko must increase one’s odds of reproducing.

But it seems women have buyer’s remorse over marrying psychopathic men because psychopathy is a major predictor of divorce [6], and women usually initiate it, so women would seem to choose to leave psychopathic men more than normal men. Psychopathic women make difficult partners as well. For example, serial killer Ed Kemper described his quarrelsome mother as having gone “through three husbands like a hot knife through butter.”

One reason their marriages don’t last is that rather than bonding with their sexual partners and wanting to settle down with them as normal men do, psychopaths do the opposite. They grow bored and desire new ones. Hence, psychopathic men are more likely to cheat on their spouses [7], which matters because infidelity causes 20% to 40% of all divorces [8].

Psychopathy may seem like a serious disadvantage, but it is adaptive to an environment permitting little parental investment in one’s children. This environment could be species-wide or a social niche within a species. Psychopaths focus on having as many sexual partners as possible rather than nurturing the children they have in a monogamous union.

To see what this looks like, let’s take a look at the ladies’ man Boomhauer from the American TV show King of the Hill, soliciting phone numbers from women in a discount shoe store. His eagerness to approach them and lack of inhibition in doing so enable him to play a numbers game and eventually find a woman who will give him her number, and from the pool of women who do this, he finds one who will sleep with him. While psychopaths may experience regret over past actions, they fail to envisage the ramifications of future ones [9]. Hence, Boomhauer remains undaunted in soliciting phone numbers from new women despite suffering near-ubiquitous rejections. Psychopathy helps men get the next woman and not retain the current one.

Unsurprisingly, psychopathy is associated with sociosexuality, or casual sex [10]. Thrill-seeking, dishonesty, and cold-heartedness helps psychopaths more easily attract women and avoid becoming attached to them.

Factors other than infidelity put a strain on relationships with psychopathic individuals. For one thing, psychopathic people are less happy on average. According to Psychology Today [11], they show low levels of positive emotions and life satisfaction along with high levels of negative emotions and depression. Further, this unhappiness is partially explained by the poor quality of their romantic relationships [emphasis mine].

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The two types of psychopaths differ in happiness [14]. Factor 1 psychopaths have relatively higher levels of sustained happiness than factor 2 psychopaths, and find more meaning in life. They also tend to have a sense of personal growth. Factor 2 psychopaths, on the other hand, react more readily to good fortune and success, but have lower lows. Factor 2 psychopaths generally show more mood swings and are less emotionally stable. No wonder women prefer factor 1 and dislike factor 2.

Another thing imperiling psychopathic marriage is that they are likelier to perpetrate domestic violence against their spouses [15]. Men scoring higher in the interpersonal-affective traits, or factor 1 psychopathy, are more likely to abuse their spouses than men scoring higher in the antisocial-impulsive traits – i.e., factor 2 psychopathy. This seems to go against what we’d expect, as factor 2 psychopathy entails impulsivity, but then again, factor 1 psychopathy entails lack of empathy.

Finally, psychopaths tend to be attracted to other psychopaths [16]. This seems to be a case of double trouble.

Psychopathy not only strains relationships but efforts to start families as well. Psychopathy is strongly associated with opposition to having children [17] — i.e., anti-natalism — meaning psychopathic men are more likely to dissuade their partners from having children. They aren’t so much opposed to breeding per se but to providing for their children. If they can get away with impregnating a woman while not having to invest in the child, they’ll do it. For example, one man purporting to be a psychopath claims he delights in knocking up out-of-town women who can’t track him down for child support, but stated he always uses protection with local women who know where he lives.

Of course, not all anti-natalists are psychopathic. Depression [18], student loan debt, careerism, not having the opportunity to maintain their parents’ middle-class lifestyle, educational demands, health concerns, desire for solitude, having had bad parents, and many other factors play a role in people’s decision not to have kids, so being anti-natalist doesn’t mean someone is psychopathic. Displaying traits on Hare’s psychopathy checklist-revised does.

Moreover, while promoting large families for whites in the abstract is a good thing, trying to persuade an individual other than one’s partner, descendant, or close friend to have kids may have the opposite effect of what’s intended in the sense that it may make them feel like their privacy is being invaded and harden them against the idea of having kids.

Despite psychopaths being more likely to oppose having kids, psychopathic men are more likely to sire them [19]. In time, this would seem to cause the population evolve to become more psychopathic. One study [20] shows antisocial personality disorder, a correlate of psychopathy, is increasing, going from 3% of men in 1994 to 5.5% in 2005. It seems like factor 1 psychopathy is going up, though, instead of factor 2, which is more associated with antisocial personality disorder.

Perhaps something is offsetting psychopathic men’s fecundity. One possible clue is that women who have antisocial personality disorder get more abortions [21] on average, and since about a third of people who have antisocial personality disorder are psychopaths [22], psychopathic women probably get more abortions. That could help to offset the greater reproduction of the males.

Also, bisexuality is correlated with psychopathy [23], and bisexuality is popular among zoomer women [24], but not zoomer men, so perhaps psychopathic women opting for female partners offsets the higher reproduction rates among psychopathic men. It makes sense that a behavior that makes some men appeal to women might also make some women appeal to women.

The same study [19] alleges that psychopathic men often become parasitic fathers. One would imagine this is more common among African-American men whose partners are on welfare. Psychopaths also allegedly view their children as possessions that can be discarded if they don’t meet expectations. I’m not saying 50 Cent is a psychopath, but despite the entertainment industry having him play a overprotective father of a girl going out on a date [25] in fiction, the fact is that he has displayed the opposite behavior in real life and has disowned his son [26]. The media always seems to show blacks in a better light overall than their real circumstances.

African-Americans, apparently more than any other ethnic group, help us to understand how psychopathic traits perpetuate themselves. For example, gene variants for psychopathy may be passed down partly via cuckoldry or men impregnating the wives or girlfriends of other men. African-American rappers, many of whom are highly psychopathic individuals, often express interest in having sex with other men’s women. For example, DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia raps in “Stay Fly [27]”:

DJ Paul is a dog, one you do not trust
. . . You leave your girl around me, if she bad, she gonna get fucked

Consider also these lyrics from Future’s “Stick Talk [28]” from 2015:

We be talking stick talk, we be talking bricks too
We be talking lick talk, and I’ma fuck your bitch too

And Future’s “Low Life [29]” from 2016:

That’s your wifey, wifey, wifey, wifey, wifey?
I think I like her, like her, like her, like her

This mentality undoubtedly contributes to African-Americans being more likely to have half-siblings [30].

Conclusion

Because psychopathy is a sociobiological concern, to some extent we can breed it out of the population by persuading individuals rich in psychopathy-linked gene variants to curtail their fertility. This may have unintended consequences, however. Half of all men aged 18-29 are single thanks to women in corresponding ages being too picky or unfriendly. One attribute of psychopathy is promiscuity. Maybe the gene variants that code for promiscuity in lighter doses merely help women to be friendly and more apt to form relationships. Thus, breeding them out of the population could result in too many women being sexually ill. It seems as though this may already be happening.

While it’s good for women to avoid outright psychopaths as well as subclinical psychopaths, it couldn’t hurt if they lightened up a bit around mildly psychopathic men and normal men — just as long as said men settle down and commit to the relationship indefinitely. Although knowing where to draw the line between harmful subclinically psychopathic men and mildly psychopathic, tamable ones is tough to figure out. In real life, no one has all the answers. The best we can do is to know the signs of psychopathy and avoid obvious cases.

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