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My younger brother keeps saying he is an Alpha male and bad mouths who he thinks are Beta. Can some one please explain to me what the hell is going on? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Just tell him that alpha and beta thing does not exist in the wild. Even the author said so.

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-dont-alpha-males-females.html

It does not apply to humans. Are you saying your brother is a wolf? Is he a furry perhaps?

Humans are more complex than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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.