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So her team investigated, conducting two studies that included a total of 525 heterosexual, mostly white people. “Evidently, the experience of being involved in a turbulent relationship with an emotionally unstable partner is something that most people can relate to either directly or indirectly.”
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“Despite the clumsy and comedic take, what I found interesting was that it had attracted so much attention,” Blanchard tells Inverse. To her, the video, despite its many flaws, presented an intellectual query: What did its popularity say about the reality of our mating choices? Alyson Blanchard is a senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University and evolutionary psychologists. The video is also the inspiration behind a new paper, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
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McClendon has described it as a “harmless joke” and says he didn’t mean to become a “caricature for misogyny.” Regardless of intention, it’s hit a nerve for many: Versions of the video have been watched by millions of people, and many of the comments suggest a literal interpretation. It’s sexist and transphobic a riff on the “Hot/Crazy scale” from How I Met Your Mother. In the viral 2014 YouTube video “Hot Crazy Matrix” a bespeckled man named Dana McClendon explains that the matrix explains “everything a young man needs to know about women.” He breaks women down into seven zones, ranging from the No Go Zone (women who are unattractive and crazy) to the Wife Zone (women who are very attractive but only a little crazy).