S2E9 - Bad Boys, Players, and Demons

The one about the Machiavellian Man.

Which male “dark archetypes” do you recognise?

Playboy? Bad Boy? Loverboy? Rake? Yoruba demon? Heartbreaker? Ladies man? The boy next door? 

And which of these archetypes would you high-five, find attractive or rebuke?

Where do you draw the line?

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Research shows that the dark traits of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism are more common with men than women. Besides, our social lives will also offer some proof. We all have one/two/three-degree female connections that have been left in despair/trauma as a result of encounters with males with these traits.

Whether these archetypes/traits are attractive to females is not the question or argument here.

The difficulty and genuine confusion for us is understanding the unspoken motivations and reasons behind the manipulative, coercive, apathetic, and entitled behaviours some of us males exhibit in our pursuit of short to long relationships.

So we sat down together to openly and self-critically talk about this, reflecting on our past and present experiences.

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Timestamps

[06:19]- Thoughts on the male archetypes
[09:39] - Archetypes we fall into
[12:18] - Archetypes we draw the line on
[20:19] - Thoughts on why males consciously mess up females
[35:35] - Thoughts on the socially acceptable strategies of chasing short/long term relationships
[45:44] - Potential "benefits" of being promiscuous?