mothra wrote on May 14
th, 2025 at 7:23pm:
The whole alpha thing is a fallacy. It doesn't exist outside of the imaginations of butt-hurt, whiny men.
And it all boils down to disrespecting and undervaluing women.
The actual fact is that we are all, all of us, good at some things and not good at others and if we can shelve our goddamn egos for five minutes and work intelligently and collectively, the world would be a much nicer place and we'd all feel better about ourselves.
Not at all... some of us are genetically wired to crave leading and ruling, insofar as our respective societies allow rule by autocracy... and is not autocracy, then by whatever means permissible.
And true alphas are respected and valued by women... after all, it's a mating game as much as a leading and controlling the resources game.
In high-order animals, particularly primates, the alpha is almost invariably 'popular with the ladies', and it's this popularity which helps to maintain alpha status even against co-conspirators.
Notwithstanding that women can also be alphas... History has standout examples of them, and the number of examples will only increase in the first world, as it already has.