• ooli@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    In 1958 a researcher studied Wolves. He observed that some get all the female and food. He named those Alpha, and the others Beta.

    Some people started to postulate that human work the same: There must be Alpha male and Beta male. There are 2 problem with that:

    1- Obviously Human are not wolves

    2- the study was on wolf in captivity. In nature it was later observed that there are no Alpha nor Beta: every wolf get same share of the resources

    But the narrative that human are like wolf , still appeal to some male trying to justify their toxic behavior like it was some rule of nature. Forgetting, that if their is one thing that human do compared to other animal, is to control, manage and overcome every “rule” of nature. Else we wont be able to even use fire.

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    13 days ago

    Just tell him he’s fully cuckpilled cause he clearly isn’t looksmaxxing.

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    13 days ago

    Tell him calling himself an alpha is just what a beta would do. Real alphas don’t say shit about themselves, they have people who do that for them. Watch him implode.

  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    “Alpha male” basically translates to toxic masculinity, and “beta male” basically translates to anyone who respects other people in any way. It’s the callsign of pieces of shit like Andrew Tate, who is a human trafficker and serial sexual abuser currently in prison awaiting trial in… I think it was Croatia?

    He doesn’t know what it means to be cool, so he’s hoping that just declaring that he’s cool will be good enough to make him popular.

    The problem is that the kids who try this strategy almost universally cannot pick up on social cues, otherwise they would understand that it will always lead to the opposite result. People who actually says, out loud, that they’re an alpha male are pretty much exclusively losers or scumbags.

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    13 days ago

    Your brother is trying to tell you that he has an extra chromosome. To be polite, he’s developmentally disabled. Sorry to break the news to you.

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    13 days ago

    If you’re really asking what it means, an Alpha is a strong leader. They don’t take commands, they give them. If they want something, they take it. They consider themselves superior to the weaker beta males, and feel that it is their duty to lead the betas, or that they are doing them a favor by pushing them to be more like an alpha.

    Although, a lot of the time, the people who claim to be alphas have none of the redeeming characteristics, so they just act like entitled assholes.

    • protist@mander.xyz
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      13 days ago

      Correction - when you say “an alpha is a strong leader,” you mean, “some people think an ‘alpha male’ is a strong leader, but that’s not based in reality.”

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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      13 days ago

      If you’re really asking what it means, an Alpha is a

      pseudo scientific myth that has been twisted and then adopted almost exclusively by toxic men to try and boost their own ego and justify their shit behaviour

      FTFY