If I were to venture a wild-ass guess, based on my not-degree in anthropology and social sciences, I'd make a guess that it's a callback to the little ape brain tucked into the back of humanity's collective mind, the one that apparently wants to be the big ape that beats its chest the loudest. I'm sure it's vastly more complex that that and I fully expect someone to tell me how mistaken I am soon enough.
There is a large number of men that feel awkward and like they don't fit in. Having a label to give themselves that allows them to set themselves over others gives them comfort and gives them permission to feel like they don't fit in because they are better then others. The male ego is rather fragile while at the same time insisting its not fragile since that would make it less manly.
That guy's sword in the cover doesn't have a shadow.
Yeah, I know. Iirc the whole alpha male wolf thing was bogus science to begin with and reality is a little different and more complex. But that pretty much goes for all the social structures of the animals which the type of dudes who unironically use 'alpha male' like to equate themselves with.
Yeah the science behind it isn't legit, but the social imprint it's had on humanity, and how a subset of the male species views itself through that lens, is very much a real thing. I dunno, I guess I just don't see this as some new thing to roll eyes at, as I've read so much werewolf fiction over the years, who dive head first in the Alpha/Beta/Omega mythos on the mystical side, that them calling the bigger Alpha's a Sigma, I'm just like "Oh, ok so they just came up with a new term for what most fiction writer's have just called an Alpha of Alpha's. Ok, I guess that's quicker to say I guess." Doesn't really change anything. I mean it's not like we don't know that brodudes who jockey for dominance in their personal groups, would also have to shuffle out who among each other is alpha of alphas, do this anyway, and have been doing it. It's just a term as far as I'm concerned.
I think the bue<=>red pill analogy is absolutely hilarious, mainly because it was made by then closeted transwomen and taking the red pill was meant to symbolize admitting to yourself that you are trans, yet the people that use it are generally men for their weird macho culture and to be honest they're also generally very diluted from reality and kinda dumb TBH.
We aren't. The ones that ARE are the ones that make the most noise. Guys that want to be the "top" and the center of attention go to great efforts to try and force you to be their center of attention, guys that aren't don't spend their energy making this kind of crap.
The person who made this tweet being one of them.
Now who's coming up with theories? I guess that's a neat idea, but definitely an unintended consequence which the Wachowskis have confirmed. The movie already had a lot going on. Besides, the duo had no problem being "brothers" for years after they came up with it.
Now this is up for interpretation as well. Maybe the so-called rabbit hole leads to a gender-free utopia! Anyway, to elaborate on what I mean with "thus far been accurate" is that as a teenager I bought into all the nice slogans. "Just be yourself!" "Girls need no special treatment!" "There are no 'girl things' and 'guy things'!" and saw sexism as rather primitive and something I and all of my peers could easily just avoid. Innocent times, but none of it was true then and even less today. Though maybe... had I been a Sigma male instead. Hmm...
