Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?
I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.
I’m an alpha male. If you study me in captivity I will display downright unnatural behavior.
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage.
Screw alpha males, I’m an alpha woman with a thing for omega soft guys. 🥰
I’m a male Bonobo, please keep me in line.
Isn’t that just called a domme?
omega soft
I can definitely manage that.
Omega soft
The next step on the Charmin scale those asswiping scientist bears are striving for.
It makes more sense when we assume it’s software development terminology instead. Alpha means the software is immature and full of issues.
I am a release candidate male.
Hello ladies, I’m legacy code nobody wants to refactor and is being slowly converted into microservices.
I’m barely a proof of concept then. Or minimum viable product. 🙃
I think of myself as code-complete but not necessarily bug-free.
Well, I am a god damn mess as a person. So I’m like pre-alpha. I guess that makes me a proof of concept, or maybe even a thought exercise.
I am a minimum viable product male
I’m just a beta male… they doubt I’m ready for release… but I’m far more stable than any alpha male.
What’s the difference between beta and release candidate?
EA doesn’t know either.
I’m an old version male. I’m out of date but stable and used by people who generally know what they’re doing and don’t want something new that’ll likely blow up in their face.
I think I might be a vertical slice…
I am about v4.1 right now
I’m Concord. Only out for a week and then swept under the rug like I never existed.
I too am a release candidate, but my marketing sucks.
Imagine if phrenology caught on as the latest pop-culture dipshit trend.
“My bumpy skull means I’m preternaturally predisposed to be polygamous and misogynist, and I’m just looking for a girl who has a compatible set of head bumps.”
“If you can’t handle me at my alimentivenest, you don’t deserve me at my inhabitivenest.”
if our heads don’t slot together like lego pieces the relationship isn’t going to work out
2dolychocephalic4me
Clearly you’ve stayed away from 4chan and I commend you for it.
so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat
That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.
Well, I’ve got news for you: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/far-right-phrenology-physiognomy-spread-hate-1234808413/
Isn’t that just sparkling racism?
Between RFK, Leon, and Trump the odds are pretty good of it coming back b
I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…
I’m an alpha male: barely able to keep myself running and likely to completely break down if I encounter something I’m not prepared to deal with.
I’m a Google Beta.
I am effectively immortal, but I will probably someday disappear without notice.
Just try not to leave the few remaining people who depend on you, up shit creek. Get a will.
They’ll leave a promise that other people will fill the roles they used to without any current plan to do so.
I was stable release several years ago. Now I have security issues but some folks still think I’m awesome.
Don’t worry, your features “will be incorporated in future releases of our latest chat client and our Gmail.”
I also have a memory leak.
Limited release to the world.
Damn, too early of a release eh?
And not suitable for public release, obviously
Just remember:
An alpha release is unfit for public use, contains bugs, is untested, unrefined, and is likely to crash and may cause system wide issues.
An alpha is the first step, the very basic of basics, an infant in terms of development.
If anything, be an Omega man.
Ultimate power move: be both.
The Omega you want to be
The Omega you actually are
The omegaman you want to be
The omegaman you are
This is fun. Let’s play more.
(You’re on!)
The Omega you want to be:
The Omega you are:
The omega you want to be
The omega you are
(nice pivot, but I gotta go with what I know!)
The omega you want to be:
The omega you are:
So it’s Walter Masterson.
Got it.
the study is so stupid for anyone who takes it seriously. I however enjoy the tag it birthed on Ao3
I just kinda associate it with smutty werewolf novels at this point
To be more precise, Shenkel’s work was discredited by the collective efforts of numerous scientists studying wolf behaviour. Probably the most notable of these was David Mech. His book “The Wolf” was based on Shenkel’s work, and his own research on wolves in captivity, and was really the work that popularized the “alpha” nonsense in the public mind.
After numerous studies of wolves in the wild failed to bear out these conclusions, Mech later concluded that his work was wrong, and got The Wolf removed from publication.
Either you or OP wrote Schenkel wrong.
OP is correct
I’ve heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don’t disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the “bosses” or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the “alpha” stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and “alphas” do exist in other animal species?
Yours, confused and uneducated,
u/58008
Different social animals have different social structures. Wolves generally live in family units, led by the parents. Wasps and gorillas have complicated group politics, with alliances, betrayals and backroom deals. Some primitive ants have a ‘might is right’ system, with the strongest becoming the queen and fighting off challengers. Most ants have a highly democratic system, with decisions made using chemical ‘votes’ (cast by the workers; drones and queens don’t have a say).
The behaviour initially exhibited and observed were of wolves in captivity (think prison). Once they were observed in the wild, the theory fell apart. Caged animals act differently, just like people.
You can sorta see the alpha thingamajig in hyenas. The chick with the biggest clit gets a possy of white knights trying to please her.
But it’s not obligatory. Dudes just chilling together and biting asses can still happen without a chick to lead them on.
- languages evolve, and the origin is nothing more than a curio today. People use the term “alpha” to mean a thing that exists in humans, even if it never did in wolves.
- this thing is called by the rest of the population “being and asshole” and as such i find the self identification of those people very usefull and time saving.
Does it exist in humans, though? I’m fairly certain that it remains pseudoscientific in humans as well as wolves.Oh, wait, I read point two. I stand corrected.
Shut the fuck up, omega
No /s come at me mods
(Not really though)
Guys, can’t we all just get along. You’re upsetting the Gammas.
I’m Zeta Maxx
Hhyeah yes Daddy Alpha, I’ll be quiet for you UwU~
The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves?? When he’s not rocking you like a hurricane?
No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.
Every time I see this band mentioned I can’t help but think of the terrible album cover for virgin killers. That shit is like a stain on my brain that I wish I could clean.
Don’t google it. Please trust me on this one. Could get you put on a list.
What the actual fuck? Now I feel like I had this identical experience like a decade ago, and totally blocked it out. Gross.
Clapton did one of those too. Dude is a POS.
As a lambda male, this doesn’t faze me at all.
I, too, love Haskell
Oh, hi Gordon.
I am the hope of the omniverse
I am the lightbulb in the darkness
I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger
I am the alpha and the amiga
I am the terror that flaps in the night
I am Son Goku and I am a Super Saiyan!
Get in there and eat that horse!
