Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?
Rudolph Schenkel (yes really)
What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I’m too German native speaker to get this.
I think probably you’re too German. It’s kind of a goofy name from an English point of view. And, for clarity, we don’t necessarily generally think German names are particularly goofy.
Either that or I’m missing what the guy is referencing.
Schenkel translates to “deer fucker” in german, I dunno I’m just making this up
Did Schenkel deliberately make up that alpha shit (which would justify calling his paper “bogus”) or was he just bad at research?
From what I’ve heard it’s just bad research. He looked at family units and thought the father was designated as the leader due to size and strength but really he was just a dad.
I was also under the impression that the captive wolves were in mixed- that is forced- packs.
All the fighting that was observed came from that rather than any sort of natural behavior.
Just remember:
An alpha release is unfit for public use, contains bugs, is untested, unrefined, and is likely to crash and may cause system wide issues.
An alpha is the first step, the very basic of basics, an infant in terms of development.
If anything, be an Omega man.
The Omega you want to be
The Omega you actually are
The omegaman you want to be
The omegaman you are
This is fun. Let’s play more.
So it’s Walter Masterson.
Got it.
- languages evolve, and the origin is nothing more than a curio today. People use the term “alpha” to mean a thing that exists in humans, even if it never did in wolves.
- this thing is called by the rest of the population “being and asshole” and as such i find the self identification of those people very usefull and time saving.
Shut the fuck up, omega
No /s come at me mods
(Not really though)
Hhyeah yes Daddy Alpha, I’ll be quiet for you UwU~
Guys, can’t we all just get along. You’re upsetting the Gammas.
I’m Zeta Maxx
the study is so stupid for anyone who takes it seriously. I however enjoy the tag it birthed on Ao3
I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.
The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves?? When he’s not rocking you like a hurricane?
No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.
Every time I see this band mentioned I can’t help but think of the terrible album cover for virgin killers. That shit is like a stain on my brain that I wish I could clean.
Don’t google it. Please trust me on this one. Could get you put on a list.
TIL!
Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)
Peter Gibson, the guy who discovered non-celiac gluten sensitivity, retracted his own study a few years later, but it had already become a fad diet, so it just stuck. That being said, there have been some studies that seem to confirm its existence, but the evidence is pretty thin. (To be clear, celiac disease and wheat allergies are 100% proven and can be reliably tested for).
A lot of people’s gluten sensitivity is actually a sensitivity to glysophates.
However, the gluten-free fad diet was actually incredibly beneficial for sufferers of celiac desease because it made gluten-free products so mainstream and really expanded what pre-made foods and snacks they can buy in stores.
Not really though, because it led to many places and cooks not taking it that seriously. Becky won’t have any idea there’s a little gluten on the knife and cutting board, but a person with celiac definitely would.
Sometimes, I have a friend with celiac who often sees “gluten free°” on menus to look down at the bottom of the menu and see “°not for people with gluten sensitivities”
He calls it “Becky gluten free” because Becky doesn’t know what gluten is but she doesn’t want it in her body.
True, although I met a girl with celiac early in the gluten-free fad who claimed that she couldn’t trust a lot of restaurants’ gluten-free options because a lot of them weren’t actually gluten-free. Restaurants were just chasing a trend that they didn’t fully understand. Things are much better now, but I think early on a lot of restaurants were treating gluten-free like the Atkins or Paleo diet, not an allergy.
My dad joined a local celiac group in the early 2000s not long after his sister developed celiac through pregnancy and his doctor suggested he start the diet out of an abundance of caution. At the time there were about 10 people in the group local to a city of ~250k. They’d swap menu hacks to get safe(ish) food while out and about and trade recipes. Then some specialty stores started carrying more safe stuff as the fad was starting to gain traction and it definitely went mainstream when mainstream groceries and restaurants started officially offering safe options. Needless to say, that gluten-free diet support group no longer exists.
Most interestingly, his other sister tested negative on the celiac blood test and neither I nor my dad have ever had that test done, so there’s a good chance we’re in the clear after all.
I can’t remember now why I felt compelled to share this, or how it tied into your comment but I hope it’s at least interesting!
Screw alpha males, I’m an alpha woman with a thing for omega soft guys. 🥰
Isn’t that just called a domme?
omega soft
I can definitely manage that.
Omega soft
The next step on the Charmin scale those asswiping scientist bears are striving for.
I’m a male Bonobo, please keep me in line.
If you were a (regressive, anti-science) female that believed this, wouldn’t you have to be a “beta” wolf in this fictional world?
There are species that do have leader types in the social hierarchies though. Gorillas for example, or orcas.
The problem is that you can’t use info about wolf hierarchies to draw conclusions about human hierarchies. You can’t even use info about extant primates to draw conclusions about humans.
But, but… Ape together strong?
Everyone has a share!
Thanks Milo!
I’ve heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don’t disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the “bosses” or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the “alpha” stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and “alphas” do exist in other animal species?
Yours, confused and uneducated,
u/58008
You can sorta see the alpha thingamajig in hyenas. The chick with the biggest clit gets a possy of white knights trying to please her.
But it’s not obligatory. Dudes just chilling together and biting asses can still happen without a chick to lead them on.
The behaviour initially exhibited and observed were of wolves in captivity (think prison). Once they were observed in the wild, the theory fell apart. Caged animals act differently, just like people.
