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So you chauffered him around for free, no strings attached, and are now wondering why he thinks he's royalty.

Next time you help him out, drop him off in the nearby woods with a camera, asking for a video on how alphas hunt.

Apparently the concept of alpha male in wolves came from those observed in captivity.

Sure there's a link there

What was the drive back like? Lol

My 12 year old nephew is also into this stuff... I worry for him, but I was also an idiot at 12.

Join us in the twin diesel turbo dude club.

Some people like to compile their own male from source.

I'm a "feature branch that's been abandoned for 4 years" male.

i respect women and they look at me in return

My nephew who's like 12 insists this is "sigma male" but I just tell him that sounds more like ligma males.

Except the like 27 times he got killed.

I hear you, but you counter is a little disingenuous. A city isn't your pack, your social circle is. And that's probably smaller than 42. Just because you're in a city of millions doesn't mean you directly interact with them in a social way, we are still animals of small social groups, even if we live in a global space of billions. The alpha male stuff is still bunk science trash of course.

Does the half wolf in Europe go to another pack, or is it eaten?

As a European, I gotta tell you, it's super creepy seeing those half wolves walk around with their packs... You guys are lucky your wolves decided to split up in 8-packs instead.

The largest human “pack” size is 37800000

Dunbar's number would suggest otherwise. Human "pack" size is closer to 150. Past that, you really don't recognize or interact with people to consider them peers.

But the rise of "Alpha Male" psychology seems to be paired with the gamification of dating, particularly via for-profit web apps. There's all this meta-psychology blossoming around a simple mathematical problem of too-many-dudes for too-few-women in a setting that rewards aggressiveness.

What we have is a totally artificial environment lauded by bunch of NEET libertarian techbros who are then forced to rationalize why they can't use it to get laid. In some sense, its like that scene from "A Beautiful Mind" except replace John Nash with Andrew Tate, and he's telling everyone at the table to fight to the death over the one blonde girl.

But the heart of the problem isn't simple that humans aren't wolves. It is that you have made of yourself a pack of caged animals and tried to explain the resulting social dysfunction by appealing to naturalism. Even if you were right and there was a chicken-like peaking order rather than a giant dog orgy instilled in the human psyche, you couldn't take advantage of it because you have become locked in a hen house overwhelmingly composed of roosters.

Incidentally, gay dating apps have an entirely different dynamic. There's no "gay alpha male" theory to contend with because they're all in the pile and having the time of their lives.

The reality is even better:

The wolves in the studies that produced an alpha were in captivity with foreign wolves. Meaning that their natural pack social hierarchies didn't exist. It's only when a bunch of random wolves are captured together that they act like this.

Which actually makes this a much better metaphor for people who identify themselves as "Alphas", feeling trapped, lashing out at your neighbours trying desperately to be the one who comes out on top.

Those “alpha” wolves were just a bunch of strangers thrown together and operating off of fear. They were just trying to build a pecking order to have some interpersonal security.

So any “alpha male” is just a frightened, insecure stranger who is out of their depth in scary circumstances and operating in a reactionary manner.

Also known as the Sigma male. Probably my favorite meme to come out of all the alpha male toxic bs

LiGmA? WhAt Is ThAt?

What's balls?