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Women’s “Psychopath Radar” is So Good It Can Apparently Be Disarmed With a Bad Joke and a Smile

And deodorant. Analyzing this supposed creep detection superpower.

Dean Brooks
4 min readOct 7, 2024
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My article, “Angry Single Man Rejected by ‘30 Million’ Women Goes on Shooting Rampage, Killing Three,” drew some interesting comments. Particularly one expressing that women can tell when a man has “murderer vibes.” And in fact, these vibes evidently emit a detectable odor.

This was very shocking news to me, as I could have sworn that I’m constantly seeing in the news about wives/girlfriends/women in general being killed and/or assaulted by husbands/boyfriends/dates, etc. I guess that must all be fake news? Or maybe exceptions. Or maybe women whose psychopath radar never got an upgrade.

Firstly, has any deodorant company sought to capitalize on this apparent “murderer vibe” smell? Because if not I think I’ve got the next billion dollar idea.

“Fellas, cover up that offensive homicidal maniac stench with Nice Guy Spray. Your psycophathic tendencies will be our little secret.”

I look forward to Old Spice mailing me a seven-figure check for my idea.

In all seriousness, I think this kind of delusional thinking is rather dangerous. Ted Bundy famously…

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Dean Brooks
Dean Brooks

Written by Dean Brooks

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