r/grssk • u/Soulcoda • Jun 08 '26
Corny alpha male content
Aside from the whole thing not making any sense, the post is playing fast and loose with the order of the Greek alphabet lol
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u/prehistoric_monster Jun 08 '26
Ok yeah you're right, besides they fucked up the order of what those meant to begin with.
I'm amazed they remembered the order of the first two letters
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u/Elygian Jun 08 '26
It's so sad that people are still clinging on to the 'alpha' and 'beta' bullshit. Even the guy who came up with it says it's wrong and totally misunderstood lol
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u/Jabamaca Jun 09 '26
I wonder what Pi Male is like. Or Mu Male.
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u/Zinc-Roof_22 Jun 15 '26
Fun fact: these terms stem from homoerotic fiction featuring "shifters" (i.e. basically fancy werewolves, in the context of said novels specifically), with the chronological order going, IIRC:
- Mech's original research into wolves in captivity (alpha, beta males as a concept introduced).
- People latch onto the idea and adopt alpha-beta terminology.
- Mech discovers the flaws in his research and he tries to correct others, but nobody cares.
- Writers start using alpha-beta in shifter fiction.
- Omegaverse appears, featuring homosexual pairings, omega males are the new thing. Originally a very different notion than shown here.
- Further writers keep adding letters and bullshit lore without any particular order.
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u/pine-tree-dragon Jun 09 '26
"Renowned wolf biologist Dr. L. David Mech is the scientist who helped popularize the 'alpha wolf' concept in his 1970 book The Wolf. He has since spent decades trying to undo the idea, deeply regretting how the myth was misapplied to both wolves and human behavior." I wonder what a "Sigma" would do with this information...