Josh Slocum - Personality Disorders and Homosexuality

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with the fascinating

Josh Slocum

, who runs a weekly podcast called Disaffected (give him a follow on Youtube and Rumble) and publishes the

Disaffected Newsletter

here on Substack.

Josh, who describes himself as a “former leftist, now living in reality,” is a conservative gay dude who uses his platform to educate people about Cluster B personality disorders so they can better protect themselves and their loved ones.

This was a hilarious and insightful conversation all of you are sure to enjoy. Josh approaches the epistemics of mental illness from an angle very different to my own, but was able to explain his worldview to me in a way that felt internally consistent and reasonable. We also touch on contemporary gay issues, the thorny question of female agency, and the decline of heterosexual courtship norms into highly faggy behavior.

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Topics include:

• Josh’s thesis that the Cluster B personality disorders often associated with domestic abuse have significantly increased in prevalence in American society

• Why Josh sees personality disorders as a moral / philosophical problem instead of as a medical problem—they used to be called “character disorders”

• Epistemic issues with the DSM—homosexuality was once seen as a mental illness, but was redefined for entirely political reasons

• How does one define a “personality disorder” versus a benign character trait?

• The difference between personality disorders and other mental illnesses

• Is there such a thing as an “inherently bad person?”

• Walt defends the personality disordered (see also Narcissism is Good and

  Nina Power
  ’s In Defense of the Borderline)

• Is there a difference between lying and gaslighting? Is a perception of gaslighting inevitable given a substantial gap in verbal IQ or rhetorical ability?

• Why Josh would diagnose his much younger self with BPD

• Josh describes his traumatic childhood with a heavily NPD and BPD mother

• How Josh became a traditionalist and conservative after determining that Leftism lends itself to cloaking wickedness in moral virtue and victimhood

• Having a flexible / complex relationship with your identity (highly associated with Cluster B disorders) can make someone more magnetic and charming

• Walt argues that good and evil are more parallel than oppositional and defends the virtue of artful manipulation

• Josh argues that the four Cluster B disorders aren’t discrete categories but that most people draw from all four

• Walt ask Josh for his take on Sam Vaknin, a self-confessed narcissist

• The common tendency to parse hyperverbal autism as narcissism

• Women and gays both find narcissism attractive, which creates an incentive for dominant men to overtly mask as narcissist as a sexual strategy

• Infantilizing age gap discourse surrounding adults makes it easier for actual pedos to get away with genuine child abuse

• Everyone speaks with a more childlike affect these days compared to in the 90s

• Gen Z girls genuinely seem to have less sexual agency due to early puberty, lax parenting standards, a lifestyle of promiscuity, etc.

• Why Josh is against gay adoption and surrogacy

• Straight guys don’t see women as moral agents and women don’t act as such

• Do twinks have the same issues with compromised agency?

• Josh argues that modern straight men are starting to sexually act like gays

• Walt refers to

  The Calipers
  ’s article Gay men are trans women.

• Why Josh thinks most instances of homosexuality are the result of child abuse

• Genetic vs. epigenetics vs. environment as the cause of homosexuality

• Lots of gays have a Cluster B mother or absent father

• Why do so many gay dudes sort of worship their mom?

• Could homosexuality be caused by hormonal stress in utero?

• At what age does someone develop real agency?

• A suppressed gender polarity gets sublimated into extreme fetishism

• Why Walt often wishes he were gay because of greater male trait variance

• When a bitchy twink tries to weaponize vulnerability there’s less of an avenue to weaponize vulnerability than when a woman does the same thing

• Will gay guys start to break off from the acronym coalition?

• Josh explains why there’s no such thing as trans

• Thai ladyboys etc. aren’t the same thing as modern trannies

• Walt supports gay guys because they reduce competition for womyn

• Lesbianism and male homosexuality are ontologically distinct in a deep way because of the highly plastic nature of female sexuality

• Josh hypothesizes lesbianism is rooted in a trauma response toward men

• Tinder caused the incel rate to effectively double to a highly dysfunctional rate

• Virtually all men lie about their height on dating apps

• Performative Fuckboyism—even women who want a serious relationship will punish men on dating apps who say they want a serious relationship

• No straight man wants to advocate for lower status men because it risks giving him a low status “incel stink”