How Evolution Explains Sex Differences - Gad Saad | Maiden Mother Matriarch 43

My guest today is Professor Gad Saad, evolutionary psychologist and author of 'The Parasitic Mind' and 'The Saad Truth About Happiness.'
In the first part of the episode we spoke about psychological sex differences, particularly in relation to mental illnesses including eating disorders, depression, suicidal ideation, and OCD. In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about antisemitism through an evolutionary psychology lens, as well as honour cultures, victim cultures, and the failures of cultural relativism.
01:41 Does the pursuit of happiness look different for men and women?
03:22 Sex specifics on suicide
9:15 Evolutionary explanations for mental health illnesses
33:00 The Parasitic Mind
43:01 Antisemitism & market-dominant minorities
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[@pallavidawson7933]

Thanks for this conversation. It is refreshing to hear the environmental factors causing problems for women after birth rather than an instant diagnosis (often given by strangers) of a chemical imbalance.

[@anomietoponymie2140]

Thank you so much, Louise, for restoring the videos. It really makes a difference!

[@TL13579]

The women avoiding people in the streets during the pandemic may have nothing to do with neuroticism, but rather higher compliance with authorities' dictates.

[@clementinetufts3454]

I thought the same. However I feel like I came across more women who were afraid of getting sick and more women who wanted to come across as “good”.

[@TL13579]

@@clementinetufts3454 Perhaps they were afraid of getting sick because they took the authorities' assessment of the situation (which can essentially be summed up as “do all that we say or civilization will end!”) more seriously, rather than caring about virtue signalling.

[@nomadman5288]

I'd posit that neuroticism could lead to more compliance in those types of situations.They need a higher sense of certainty and set rules/boundaries offer that, at least in theory.

[@TL13579]

@@nomadman5288 Makes sense.

[@NerdlySquared]

More likely to follow the social pack and authority, less risk tolerance overall, more acute disgust response, much higher fear perception, higher avoidance tendency. I mean take your pick, there are lots of sexed differences that can apply to one behaviour individually or in combination.

[@fairyprincess1]

Loved this discussion! Especially as a mother 😊 Prof Saad is so sweet and knowledgeable!

[@wisdomandy9361]

Wow I'm glad you got him on! This should be great!

[@peripheralparadox4218]

Make Testicular Fortitude great again. Vote Saad for a happy future.

[@JackCoombs-iy8vz]

This man is awesome, you're doing great Louise!

[@alphacause]

Much of the pseudoscience that comprises feminist thought is dismantled in light of evolutionary psychology. So Dr. Saad is invaluable in bringing a much needed dose of reality to discussions surrounding gender politics. Thank you, Louise, for bringing him on.

[@justanothernick3984]

Evolutionary psychology is just that, pseudoscience. It's a frame of reference trying to tie everything back to the good old days of hunter-gatherers by trying to establish some worth in that age. It's basically one form of the naturalistic fallacy. It's astrology for men. Think about what they opened with; the adaptive purpose of suicide. Makes sense right? You can make cases for and against it. It's for making room and freeing resources for your genes or you are outside of the group with no chance of reproducing _or_ you're ego wants to preserve itself and this is counterproductive to the survival of the species and not adaptive at all. We are so complexed that this solution can be "true" from all sorts of interpretations and that makes it unsound. We are not natural anymore. Technology has helped us fight many of the obstacles we have faced throughout history. That doesn't mean we are no longer in our supposed "natural" habitat. We adapt to the circumstances. The form of anxiety might not be the same but I'm guessing it wasn't easier as a hunter-gatherer, trying to fight animals for food on a starving stomach. And I guess they were anxious too, finding all kinds of wishful thinking trying to explain things back then. We were superstitious and from the looks of it, listening to this conversation, we still are.

[@justanothernick3984]

If you are open minded, listen to Prof. Sam Vaknin. He put out a video yesterday about EvoPsych. Listened to that one after I finished this. He explains how it just is not science. I think Louise Perry could benefit from watching that video too. He seems very wide in his knowledge in the field of the human mind. And he has good arguments for his claims. Even though he is pretty verbally rough on the practitioners of the EvoPsych field. Are you guys up for lesson in a contrary opinion?

[@narendrasomawat5978]

​​​@@justanothernick3984evolutionary psychology is mother of all other phycology. There can be fault in that but it's still thousands time better than any feminist gender theory , Jungian, lacanian or Freudian phycology feminist hates it because they propagate social construct theory about gender they're propagating it has proven wrong by cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. That's why they hate evolutionary psychology.

[@t5396]

@@justanothernick3984 you sound ignorant.

[@justanothernick3984]

@@t5396 Okay, can you help me with some more information?

[@Jules-Is-a-Guy]

Gad always tells The Saad Truth.

[@swerremdjee2769]

🙂 good one👍🙂

[@justanothernick3984]

The Saader part is that people actually take his just-so stories and give them any credence what so ever. Guess it's easy to sell pseudo-science to lay people, especially in the kind of astrology they are discussing here, namely evolutionary psychology. They sound convincing but if you think about them deeper, they just don't hold up.

[@swerremdjee2769]

@@justanothernick3984 he is not the only one being a psychological or evolutionaire theorists now🙂 mother maide matriarchy jhon Verveakys Jonathan pegeau all want a peace of the pie, all frauds

[@jimtomo9207]

​@@justanothernick3984 I think that's why it's called a philosophy and not a science

[@justanothernick3984]

@@jimtomo9207 Yeah, it's a value system. An ideology.

[@scottmichaelhedge5055]

Thank you for this, great discussion.

[@donaldrobertson1808]

The beauty of the skin tight nylon pants that have been popular among women in my area, is they can go out shopping on cold winter days and still show their form in full display, satisfying the adaptation in the way it had adapted to be satisfied

[@lisabeeke7162]

Loved this talk. Blessings Gad and Louise.

[@kingofallmediums2123]

Great 😌 podcast! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😊😊😊😊😊

[@kingofallmediums2123]

Gad is the 🐐 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😊😊😊😊

[@GraceHarwood88]

23:37 Because women having a week of bed rest when potentially several households rely on their caregiving tasks. For her to get ill, needing time for healing, leaves other caregivers to complete the tasks expected of her, who wouldn’t know where start.

[@magnusdanielsson2749]

Ive experienced some of that dread that mothers have regarding their newborn ”is it still breathing” kind of thing. It was when I took on this old house 😅 I had this profound feeling of responsibility to take care of the house. Before moving to it permanently I could lay awake wondering if the house was ok. Especially during when I did the roof. What if the tarp had blown away and rain got in etc. Its was a most unexpected feeling that stayed with me for a few years. For a house! 😂

[@lemoneyesalt5513]

Brilliant, thankyou!

[@MidNightRider2001]

It took Dr. Saad a whopping two hours to tweet out this podcast! He's falling down on the job! 😝

[@StimParavane]

What a slacker.

[@thomasjpuleo8112]

This discussion and Dr Saad’s research in general would benefit from a more nuanced understanding of the role played by parasites in ecologies, both natural and cultural, one informed not only by evolutionary biology but also by philosophical work based upon it, works by Michel Serres for example.

[@mateosanchis5507]

43:04 the conversation takes a turn… I don’t hate ‘the Jews’, but I don’t think they’re human ‘superfood’ 😮 ‘genetic elements to Jewish success…”😮😮😮

[@Happenstance20]

Louise Perry is my celebrity crush. 😂

[@StimParavane]

You're not the only one.

[@MeaningSeekerPod]

Excellent :)

[@covidity114]

Bond is cool because he's not playing with his own money. It's the Crown's money.

[@stvbrsn]

15:11 hey Gad, if you’re ever at a loss to adequately explain or describe “Munchausen by proxy,” you know there’s a prominent example in one of the best known movies of the last 30 years. The Sixth Sense. Just bring up the scene with the hidden videotape. The one which reveals that the mother was feeding her daughter drain cleaner in order to keep her sick. Everyone will say, “oh yeah, I remember that scene, it made me want to throw that ‘mother’ in a very deep hole.” Then you say, “that’s Munchausen by proxy.”

[@Bluebaggins]

The way industry and all its toxic garbage causes, but people actually like the garbage until they get sick, and then the medical industry takes care of that by feeding treatments instead of addresing the issues, then psychiatrists step in to reinforce the illusion that its all okay if you just live a happy life. Its called being stitched up from the outset.

[@Jules-Is-a-Guy]

49:35 this is exactly the social phenomenon I was trying to remember, and book that explains phenomenon. Then the talking heads started talking abt it. Serendipitous & Apropos (attorneys at law).

[@HammerdownProtocol]

Gad Saad presents a compelling case for limited human cloning, whenever he weighs in on the culture war.

[@barefootaxel4847]

There's another interesting phenomenon which may (certainly) have an evolutionary procreation preventive aspect: The more plants people eat, the lower their libido and fertility.

[@grannyannie2948]

Hunter gatherers ate mainly meat and seafood.

[@tylerd.5694]

Lol wrong

[@fiveleavesleft6521]

Is there any literature on this?

[@luposolitario501]

We all know what an apple is. We have somehow a kind of pattern stored in our brain that allows us to identify any apple. It is important to have such stereotypes so we do distinguish between apples and tennis balls. Why should other stereotypes be so despised? Don't we need them to evolve in our environment?

[@dnbjedi]

'the great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.' if you want to skip a few grades I'd recommend Ram Dass to you. cheers.

[@48vfl]

24:43 Evolutionary psychology in a nutshell

[@narendrasomawat5978]

No it's not

[@dnbjedi]

sidenote: being that close to the camera gives off cult leader vibes. Back up about 2-4 ft. love ya louise. your a light in the dark and one of the only feminine role models. One of a very few.

[@stvbrsn]

That’s hilarious. Just before I read your comment I was thinking how much I love Louise’s choice to frame herself that way! I think seeing her lovely face up close is very calming, along with her soft voice and moderate speaking pace.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Your?

[@1pointt21gW]

I aso observed many sidewalk jumpers in Cambridge MA during covid. 100% of them were women. One of them came very close to getting hit by a speeding car and the car lost control to avoid an accident. nobody was hurt but the car came close to getting into a head on with another speeder. After that incident I spent the rest of covid fasidiously hugging one side of the sidewalk.

[@briancox9357]

It seems hard to believe now that millions of people genuinely thought they could avoid a global pandemic simply by getting out of peoples' way

[@RCCarDude]

Why does Gaad stop being so inquisitive when the gaze turns on his own chosen people? I don't say this as someone who's an antisemite or condones of what happened in October, I absolutely don't, but if he is going to make an inference about who were the architects behind open borders or even collectivism at large, he must know in his heart of hearts, that it's his own chosen people. That, by his own tautology means that there is something worth inspecting there, either in the enculturation or genetics of these people when living with Gentiles. He brings up knowing Arabic as a superpower, but what are his own thoughts on the Ta1mud? Is that not religious supremacy? I'm honestly curious with how he'd answer, because on one hand he assures us he's an atheist, but on the other he defaults to being a semite.

[@christopher6759]

Average Joo.

[@Rick_Cleland]

*_GAD!!_*

[@thel1355]

Oh for Gad's sake!

[@scipioafricanus2]

just to reinforce the point, china has extensive eugenics laws in effect. that civilization will inherent the earth and gain hegemony along with russia and iran.

[@stacyliddell5038]

@25:50 that could be the booze blanket. When you are hammered the cold is mere tickle.

[@ndndndnnduwjqams]

4:00 suicide ratio and gdp per capita

[@TimBitts649]

Population differences among nations for longevity, taking gender roles into account are interesting....and remind me of suicide rate differences between men and women: Russia comes to mind. Russian men have much, much shorter lives than Russian women. Why is that? The Russian men die at 55. Often from alcohol related diseases. But the women live an additional 15 years. So I'd guess male alcoholism is driven by the greater emphasis both men and women place on male success. Alcoholism is just suicide in slow motion. What drives it? Men are judged much more harshly than women. Females can be successful, they are applauded. But if women are not successful, no one is bothered. No one judges them for failure. But men know if it's them that are not successful, it means their social value to women, plunges sharply. After Russia lost the Cold War, Russian males as a whole lost an incredible amount of social status. Did the Russian male suicide rate rise after their defeat in the Cold War? 🤔

[@narendrasomawat5978]

No man are naturally going to have more pressure of performance because of their biology.

[@Dimanto22]

It’s professional gaslighting nothing more nothing less.

[@scottreichek2986]

Stereotypes are not autocthonic.

[@stvbrsn]

Incredible. There’s no KZbin-imposed information tag regarding suicide on this video. And yet the word was mentioned 20 times in the first ten minutes. Do algorithms fall asleep on the job?

[@David-ep5om]

I always wondered what it would do to a person's psyche to believe in evolution (if he actually believes in it) and look like gad saad. That can't be a nice place to be.

[@nomadman5288]

What are you even talking about?

[@David-ep5om]

@@nomadman5288 Not sure what you're finding hard to comprehend.

[@maxamahnken7325]

Creation, not evolution explaining sex differences. God created sex differences.

[@VeridicusMaximus]

LMAO!

[@maxamahnken7325]

Yes

[@alexryan43244]

Look at her eyes 😊

[@Jules-Is-a-Guy]

Yes, but dangerous to look directly.

[@jimtomo9207]

Tonga-Hunga

[@paulbucklebuckle4921]

My aunty Semite was a direct descendant of yosemity Sam , she didn't have the mustache thankfully.

[@dhairyasatra8277]

louise perry be like: aap death ke baare mein sochte ho?

[@scipioafricanus2]

your pessimism is warranted. the west is doomed.

[@liammccann8763]

Gad simply cannot help himself but bring it all back to Jewish persecution.

[@RCCarDude]

He's a real smart guy, and I agree with him about Oct 7 being terrible, but yes, his level of inquiry drops precipitously when it comes to the J-question. Most people don't believe in a big conspiracy, but they absolutely see that many people in the same club all ascend to the highest echelons of power in the west, despite having a true aversion to what it stands for. I try not to ascribe malice to ppl, but one cannot say that despite being a small number that they do not occupy many seats of power relative to size. If we were to admit this and talk about it, it would engender more understanding and less suspicion and hatred, but instead we have to notice and move on.

[@liammccann8763]

@@RCCarDude Having a homeland is simply not enough for the Zionists. We in the west must be inflicted with a sense of the anguish that the Zionists felt for losing theirs.

[@RCCarDude]

​@@liammccann8763 I wouldn't begrudge them Zionism if they just were honest and called it Jewish nationalism and accepted that other countries were also good to have it, but they won't.

[@liammccann8763]

@@RCCarDude We Catholics count protestant, half Jews, among the Zionist number.

[@nnglnd]

That is religion for you. Every single one of them .

[@penelopekitty606]

Louise, I can't wait to see what you're saying in 20 years when your marriage and motherhood is no longer in it's first bloom. You disregard the writing and experience of women who have already been where you are at your own peril. You haven't discovered anything new or novel and you ignore some very tough realities.

[@awsambdaman]

I’m not sure what you’re saying? Are you saying she ignores the realities of women who get stuck in horrible marriages? I think she’s aware that’s a possibility. On Chris Willamsons podcast she mentions that she thinks the 1950s familial structure was generally a good one, but was an absolute nightmare if your husband was a tyrant. Which is true. And that’s why I think feminism came about, too many men were tyrants. They abused their position as head of household. If you’re saying it’s a near guarantee that this outcome will happen, I strongly disagree and I think that’s a position as cynical and rigid as what the blackpillers think. I’m sorry if you’ve been through a rough marriage or a bad relationship but generalizing your experience towards everything does not help anyone

[@victor0fwhat]

What is your goal with this comment?

[@rebeccapenders5050]

Wow, you sound miserable. 😬 You wouldn't think that if you had read her book.

[@anomietoponymie2140]

Like what, Penelope? What very tough realities is she ignoring? What writing and testimony, specifically, is she disregarding? I'd genuinely like to know more and have no fear, I'm no spring chicken either, probably older than you are.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

Bitter much?

[@Preciouspink]

Phobe alert

[@jayjaydubful]

Arachnophobia? Agoraphobia? What am I looking out for?

[@Preciouspink]

@@jayjaydubful he be phobed on da trans.

[@jayjaydubful]

@Preciouspink he's scared of them? Or he just doesn't believe in the ideology?

[@Preciouspink]

@@jayjaydubful I am not an ideology. Transmisia is a real thing. More so than trans ideology. How did that whole gay ideology work out political. Same song and dance. Enrage people preconceived notions of sex and gender for a quick voter out. Funny thing is you can’t find these ideology proclaimers after the Supreme Court rule In favor of equality for marginalized people.

[@Preciouspink]

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[@invincible125]

What an absolute moral constiption to talk at this much length about October 7 and say nothing on the ongoing slaugter in Gaza that followed suit… and that is your Saad truth 👎🏽👎🏽

[@nomadman5288]

Oh no, they didn't talk about what you wanted them to. What a sin.

[@28daysleitor]

Oh jesus, you've got Gad Saad on now have you? Well that's just made me downgrade my estimation of you by several notches. LOL "megabestseller". Yeah, OK.