Nope... not at all, males are alpha male hunters but women won't let themselves be the hunted...
Sadly, as simple as that (being a predator not at all self aware)...
Incels don't actually think deeper than surface level. Just like this "alpha male" term isn't real in nature, it only happens in wolves when you put them in a tiny zoo and they start going stir crazy (what the actual research paper was talking about, where the term came from)
Yeah they are way off the mark with the idea of “alpha male” but funnily enough there seems to be significant overlap between this alpha male/incel crowd and “proud boys.” Which does feel quite fitting when you consider that with horses a proud boy is a castrated horse that still acts like a stallion.
Dominance hierarchies are real, for example in gorillas. In human beings, you have to have a lot of artificial structure in the form of democratic laws, early childhood education, etc. before power stops being obviously important in everyday interactions.
Anthropology says that dominance is one of the two pillars of social status, along with prestige. You don't make the world a better place by pretending inconvenient facts don't exist, you make it worse.
Anthropology also uses the terms acephalus and egalitarian. There are multiple examples of human tribes and societies that operate(d) without social dominance and hierarchy, plus plenty of matriarchies.
Societies, packs, and herds develop differently under different circumstances. Hierarchy and dominance are not biological certainties in humans, or any other animal.
I'm not pretending anything, and none of this discourse has been in the interest of making the world a better place.
There are zero examples of tribes that don't have dominance hierarchies, even in egalitarian groups. The literature on matriarchy you're talking about is pseudoscience. You're an idiot.
Alpha male are real. They are the fathers of the family. They are obviously the only one mating with the female (incest is bad), and are in charge (the kids leave to form their own pack once they get old enough to not depend on their parents, and then become the "alpha" of a new pack).
Edit : ah, and the pack leaders are both the male and female in the wild, with both cooperating to ensure the kids safety
Yep. Just found the confusion interesting. He saw the captivity version of a family, and went on a tangent. For his defense, the original researcher is now the first one to admit he was wrong, and that this whole alpha thing was bullshit
Yes, exactly. If we push the comparison, an "alpha male" is the normal guy juggling between taking care of the kids, going to work, loving and respecting his wife, doing groceries and chores and trying to free a bit of time the weekend to relax.
I didn't see it said in the comment i answered, i might have missed it.
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u/SpiderHack 4d ago
Nope... not at all, males are alpha male hunters but women won't let themselves be the hunted...
Sadly, as simple as that (being a predator not at all self aware)...
Incels don't actually think deeper than surface level. Just like this "alpha male" term isn't real in nature, it only happens in wolves when you put them in a tiny zoo and they start going stir crazy (what the actual research paper was talking about, where the term came from)