Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)
Oh A/B/O is just a genre now. Blame fanfic, mpreg, and primal fetisists
Rudolph Schenkel (yes really)
What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I’m too German native speaker to get this.
I don’t get it either. It’s not like he’s called Wanker or anything.
Schenkel translates to “deer fucker” in german, I dunno I’m just making this up
“Thigh”, actually :-)
Isn’t Schenkel thigh in German?
I think probably you’re too German. It’s kind of a goofy name from an English point of view. And, for clarity, we don’t necessarily generally think German names are particularly goofy.
Either that or I’m missing what the guy is referencing.
Thanks for your perspective.
For a moment I was wondering if it’s the similarity to the Israeli currency Shekel, but that doesn’t make sense to me either.
Shekel also sounds funny to us. It might be related to how it sounds kinda similar to shekel, but I think he’s just noting that the goofy-sounding name is real.
I was thinking maybe because of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, being kind of the alpha of the reindeer herd? No idea, really
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.
Limited release to the world.
I also have a memory leak.
And not suitable for public release, obviously
Damn, too early of a release eh?
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.
Don’t worry, your features “will be incorporated in future releases of our latest chat client and our Gmail.”
I was stable release several years ago. Now I have security issues but some folks still think I’m awesome.
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.”
Between RFK, Leon, and Trump the odds are pretty good of it coming back b
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/
if our heads don’t slot together like lego pieces the relationship isn’t going to work out
Clearly you’ve stayed away from 4chan and I commend you for it.
I’d get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist…
2dolychocephalic4me
Isn’t that just sparkling racism?
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’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.
Carrots improve eyesight…nah, just military misinformation that is now a staple for parents to get their kids to eat their carrots
Vitamin A is crucial to eyesight and night vision though
But not everyone can make vitamin A out of beta carotene. That’s why some vegans have eye problems
And not everyone can digest lactose, maybe that’s why some people become vegan
You also get vitamin A (and the other fat soluble vitamins) from animal fats
Entirely offtopic but you’re not by chance the same ryannathans that’s involved in the 2009scape project are you?
The one and the same
Hey small world (wide web)!
Hey!
Alpha, beta, sigma, all just types of prison bitch. Scientifically speaking.
Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?
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.
So it’s Walter Masterson.
Got it.
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:
If you were a (regressive, anti-science) female that believed this, wouldn’t you have to be a “beta” wolf in this fictional world?
Thats the funniest part about this belief. The pop version is not even accurate to the original research, just a gross misinterpretation. The original bogus hierarchy started with the alpha couple, who are supposed to be the only reproductive couple of the pack. The rest of the population was simply defined by feeding hierarchy, who ate first. This might sound plausible but it only makes sense when you live in a fenced enclosure and there’s only like 8 of you, no den space for offspring and you can’t leave to find non-family mates. But then people made up a bunch of zodiac style personalities for this shit, and they’re just as scientific.
As a lambda male, this doesn’t faze me at all.
I, too, love Haskell
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!
Oh, hi Gordon.
Did Schenkel deliberately make up that alpha shit (which would justify calling his paper “bogus”) or was he just bad at research?
From what I’ve heard it’s just bad research. He looked at family units and thought the father was designated as the leader due to size and strength but really he was just a dad.
I was also under the impression that the captive wolves were in mixed- that is forced- packs.
All the fighting that was observed came from that rather than any sort of natural behavior.
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
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.
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.
