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you good?
Don't be sad because of this angry man. He's just a partypooper.
Sad about what? I got 'em more triggered than ever before. There have been absolutely no valid counter-arguments to what I've said.
Sorry for the delay, I've been getting my dick sucked dry by
strange headache
's Grandmother. She's real gummer.
Don't worry, I shall educate you peeps who seem incapable of going outside personal thoughts. To put it in a simple sentence before we start, the dichotomy of alpha/beta is scientifically accurate when used in correlation with human behaviors within and without of social groups.
The concept of the alpha male comes from the animal kingdom, and interest in the sorts of animal hierarchies led by alphas picked up greatly in the second half of the 20th century. The term barely existed in literature until 1960 — though in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, first published in 1932, human beings were assigned, from fetus-hood on, to a caste ranging from alpha to epsilon — and since then has been on a mostly consistent upswing.
A solid chunk of that upswing comes from
primatology research — researchers have long been fascinated by the complicated social structures of chimps, gorillas, and our other evolutionary cousins. The alpha chimp and the silverback gorilla, physically imposing as they often are (alpha chimps have been known to rip tree stumps out of the ground in terrifying displays of dominance), have come to symbolize in the public imagination a natural order that favors a single dominant male “winner.”
Even after discussion of alpha males was well established in various fields of animal behavior, though, the concept was rarely applied to humans. What changed that, at least in part, was the release of the Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal’s book Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes in 1982. “I don’t think the term alpha male was in use outside of primatology when I wrote Chimpanzee Politics,”
Then by 2000 it went from academic scholarships to the Public Domain when Al Gore was coined a beta male who needs to beat an alpha male in Times Magazine, as well as Neil Strauss producing a pick-up book that year heavily relying on the concepts of beta-alpha.
Once it hit the public domain, things like this started popping up - which has more fluid information.....considering none of you contrary fucks seem to know anything outside your own little bubbles...so with that, scholars have worked to confirm and show the complexity of such a binary thought that has engulfed the public concern.
Perhaps one of the most fitting for a site like this is from Scott Barry Kaufman who is Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute and a researcher in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love and author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined.
More my speed, in Faye Flam's book
The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive, Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky shares his contention with the alpha/beta myth in humans, stating that alpha males in other species operate similar to what is observed among humans. He notes that in dogs and wolves, for example, every member has a place in the hierarchy. And among baboons, he notes, the alpha male dominates over a group of subordinates who are equal in power to each other—until he is challenged and overthrown. In these species, the alphas exert more power. Humans are more complex, but similar Sapolsky says. We belong to more than one social circle—a man who may be a custodian by day may be a superstar DJ by night. Flam also interviewed anthropologist Tim White, who said that alpha males likely ruled the common ape ancestor humans shared with chimps roughly 7 million years ago, and can be seen amongst humans
If you have even the smallest basic grasp of primatology and human behavior. It is quite laughable to deny such a simplistic understanding.
