• BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 days ago

    I say this as a younger brother who was beat up by older siblings. If you are both under 18 and he’s a lot smaller than you, slap him. If he thinks he’s an “alpha” and you aren’t, it might be the only thing that points out that he is just human

    After you do this, please please please try to point out his error in thinking. No “alpha” commands any respect and the “alpha” bosses are the ones nobody wants to work for

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 days ago

      “There is no such thing, if you want I can slap you around and prove you’re just a normal person if you like?”

      Avoids hitting anyone and hopefully gets the point across. If it doesn’t… Wouldn’t hitting them not get it across anywaysm

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 days ago

    How old is your brother? If he is an early teenager, it is possible that he picked these concepts up from somewhere and will very likely grow out of that thinking all by himself.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      3 days ago

      Also doesn’t apply to wolves, the original researcher just mistook a parent protecting her kids for an aggressive male

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 days ago

      Yeah that argument has never dissuaded a single chud from embracing in the “alpha” bullshit. They’re being fed this bs from manosphere manipulators like Andrew Tate or someone adjacent or from peers. Their goal is to become cool and intimidating, it’s not about the bad research that lifted up this bullshit myth so long ago.

  • Krudler@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 days ago

    Young men who start to behave this way are lacking direction and aren’t self-starters. So to cope with the fact they aren’t accomplishing anything or going anywhere in life, they assume an outwardly-accusing posture.

    Contrary to the image peddled by the grifters, every guy I’ve known with the “alpha” mentality has been a dishwasher, car porter, snow shoveler, or unemployed cretin.

  • ooli@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    In 1958 a researcher studied Wolves. He observed that some get all the female and food. He named those Alpha, and the others Beta.

    Some people started to postulate that human work the same: There must be Alpha male and Beta male. There are 2 problem with that:

    1- Obviously Human are not wolves

    2- the study was on wolf in captivity. In nature it was later observed that there are no Alpha nor Beta: every wolf get same share of the resources

    But the narrative that human are like wolf , still appeal to some male trying to justify their toxic behavior like it was some rule of nature. Forgetting, that if their is one thing that human do compared to other animal, is to control, manage and overcome every “rule” of nature. Else we wont be able to even use fire.