I am lost. Can someone spoonfeed me the meme?
Alpha
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 7 months ago
Not sure, but I think the bad wolf study is the one that established the “alpha” bullshit. I have no idea about the erotica but the thing about bioessentialism is mocking the belief that humans and animals have fixed unchangeable characteristics… Such that a “weak” male will always be so, or some such crap.
Idk really
CluckN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The bad wolf study was the Alpha/Beta relationship of wolf packs that is wildly regarded as untrue.
The deranged erotica is people applying Alpha/Beta dynamics to random characters for the sake of creating fanfiction. I’m talking Mpreg and other deranged ramblings of sleep deprived tumblr fans.
Source: Stuck my dick in crazy back in 2010
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
mpreg was a term I did not want to remember.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
Source checks out.
Ooops@feddit.org 7 months ago
Actual wolf packs are a family. One pair of adults plus their children. Until those are old enough, then they leave and search for a partner and own territory.
All the stuff you read about pack alphas, all the sociological pseudo-science about alpha behavior derived from it… that’s all based on a one bullshit study about a large group of wolves artificially intoduced to a new area.
Basically the equivalent of putting a few dozen teen-age boys on an isolated island then studying their behavior to understand human society.
Rudee@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Are you implying that humans aren’t prone to worshipping idols, tribalism, and interpersonal violence?
Monstera@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Omegaverse is the big domino
Here ya go
youtu.be/zhWWcWtAUoY?si=BlYtm5xbtKDSq_0s
alpha werewolf that can impregnate other cismale werewolf is just one of the tropes
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Structure/meme format: like with the “dominoes”, one seemingly small thing can lead in much bigger things happening
Context: the 1970 book “The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species” popularized the hypothesis of the alpha, beta, and omega wolf, which has birthed sll sort of toxic and stupid bullshit that has harmed many humans, pets (especially dogs), and other animals.
The author, David Mech, has since tried to get the publisher to stop selling his erroneous book and basically dedicated most of his career to educating people on how wrong his most influential work was.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think it’s about the alpha male
davidagain@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s everything to do with it. Read some of the other replies.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 months ago
alpha wolf and momma bear
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 7 months ago
You’ve got cause and effect in the wrong order.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
In what way?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
It’s a switch.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Sigma meme
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The alpha/beta wolf notion doesn’t even make much of a sense, considering wolves tend to be loners but only make packs when they need to hunt.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
something tells me the deranged erotica would exist anyways, iirc it’s something marx predicted as a consequence of capitalism, seriously.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegaverse
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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MinusPi@pawb.social 7 months ago
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