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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 2 days ago

Lil bitch got hopped up on manosphere podcasts... Likely due to rejection or and poor social skills.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Beat his ass to establish dominance.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True solution, beat him into submission so that now he's the beta male and all of a sudden he's denying the concept

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Seduce his mom!

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

next time he says that just slap him hard. And ask him who's the alpha now?

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Just beat his ass lol

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Alpha quality, like software. Buggy as hell and should not be released. :D

srsly though it's the clusterfuckchild of social darwinism, grindset mentality and randroid zoology, plus a bit of wannabe-dom.

There was this old, debunked concept of the 'alpha wolf' as pack leader - all dominance displays, all the time, stronger and wiser and better than the rest, a sort of rightful-king that owes nothing to anyone, and that all lesser wolves obey and look up to.

Some absolute chuds picked up on the concept and decided that it applied to people, that it was a quality people could and should naturally embrace, unless they were just inherently inferior.

And of course they tied that all up with being male, because apparently men are just 'naturally dominant', unless again, they're broken and inferior ones - so if you are male, it's vital to prove that you're a properly functioning one by being a domineering asshole who deserves to get away with it out of sheer chutzpah, or else you deserve nothing but contempt and getting trodden on.

This ties in with conservative morality, which is entirely based around acknowledging and reinforcing social hierarchy. Right is when power is exerted downwards in the hierarchy, wrong is when power is asserted upwards.

So in this world, 'alphas' are the master race, while 'betas' are submissive half-men who lack the strength (and thus the virtue) to display the proper 'rugged independence'. They're also obsessed with 'cucks', ie cuckolds, men who lack the necessary manliness to fight off 'alphas' who would disrespect and shame them by having sex with their woman.

It's all incredibly toxic, and you need to pick him up and shake the bullshit out of him.

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The underline issue is that human evolve to be part of social norms. Use to be a tribe, a country, a sport club. But new generation can be have more options. Associating with alpha male or whatever means he belong to a group who might like his meme or comments.

It could also be due to lack of a man figure they can associate with. So watching documentaries of strong males might help shed light on what the role could look like.

What you want is to balance his only identity or group with other (groups). For example, joining a gym, fishing, be part of musical band …. Whatever he is also into, just to get him out of that only identity he is associating with.

For me I would try to come from telling him being alpha means you can hunt or camp or survive in the wild, then lead to cooking classes or wood working. Something that mentally and physically taxing. I also would watch gordon Ramsay shows and Anthony Bourdain just to crash that image of one way to be an alpha male. You can cook and be an alpha male as the same time type thing.

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The surest way to guarantee you're a beta is by calling yourself an alpha

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Alpha and beta? I'm released on service pack 2

[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago

That tells you that he's insecure about himself

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

He found tate's channel.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Re-educate him & show that Alphas don't live that long

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

NGL I called myself a bad dude as a teen. Said it to the wrong person and got ego-checked real hard in the face.

Let him know he's gonna get Alpha'd one day.

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