• MooseTheDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    All alpha maleism is categorically insecurity. For each of them it’s different. Figure out exactly what he’s trying to bury under all this tate shit and address it directly. It could be the onset of male loneliness, that shows up around the teenage years - lasts forever though if he’s aware he can make changes. It could be he’s insecure in his own sexuality - just get him to open up and take everything he said to the grave with you. There could be a person or activity the betas engage in that he can’t, or is afraid of being made fun if. Teach him how to stand up to that shit and grow through it.

    I’m not suggesting you punish your bro in a way that would enable this behavior further. It’s hard to be an alpha type when you’re showered in love and support- it just looks stupid. He’s probably going through some of the first real life shit, and handling it poorly. As his sister you’re kinda on the hook for helping him through this. If you do, you’d probably have a better brother and friend.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    “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.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      3 个月前

      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.”

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 个月前

    How old is your brother? If he is an early teenager, it is possible that he picked these concepts up from somewhere and will very likely grow out of that thinking all by himself.

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Twenty Two. He just started this shit. Me and my mom don’t know to be offened worried or what.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Yeah that argument has never dissuaded a single chud from embracing in the “alpha” bullshit. They’re being fed this bs from manosphere manipulators like Andrew Tate or someone adjacent or from peers. Their goal is to become cool and intimidating, it’s not about the bad research that lifted up this bullshit myth so long ago.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Also doesn’t apply to wolves, the original researcher just mistook a parent protecting her kids for an aggressive male

  • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 个月前

    Anyone who has to vocalize that they’re an alpha, isn’t. Your brother is a loser.