The thing is that the whole "alpha of the pack" thing isn't how wolves really work; it came from a study of two packs in captivity, and follow-up studies were riddled with confirmation bias. (The author has since recanted.) Wolf packs in the wild are extended families.
I know it's not real, the fact that something isn't true, has never stopped humans from modeling their life on beliefs founded in false foundations. Just look at all of religion. I mean your name alone is an example of it. You've adopted the trappings of the wolf in name, and thumbnail. It's just male posturing, but THEY think it means something, and matters, so it impacts how they view the world.
My post wasn't meant to "come at you"; I was just pointing out where the whole thing was wrong at the core- I had no intention to imply that you agreed with or promoted it. I just didn't see the other posts.
Funny thing, I'd bet good money that the majority of men who buy into the alpha/sigma whatever mentality, are probably highly likely to also buy into that as well.
The analogy works for any big social issue people don't want to see. People have said it represents capitalism, or the patriarchy, and it works fine for either of those. Not for the reactionary embarrassments who've co-opted the analogy, of course.
It's somewhat ironic, perhaps, but not surprising.
Alpha and Omega, or Mercy Thompson? Despite being set in the same universe, the Alphas in the latter are much more insufferable, I find.
Eh, partly I think it's because they are convinced there are innately superior by virtue of existing (like the everyman loser character in half of every movie ever that gets to be a hero with a devoted conventionally attractive love interest with no personality), and reality keeps telling them they aren't, or worse, that effort would be required.
Both really, as they are same universe. I stopped reading around...I forget the name of the book, but I think it was like 2 books after the Fey just decapitated that senator or whatever in public, and broke all political ties. I vaguely recall Mercy going to a Native American reservation about some Coyote stuff? That was the last one. I had a hard time stomaching Mercy, she was just so insufferable. I liked the pack she was tied to, just her, not so much.
Is Omega the new term for Sub or something?
Yeah, I think I gave up on the series at about the same point. Starts off decent, but there's issues and problems and meh and some of them get bigger as things go along.
And also really enjoys pastry.
I figure the reason they're going with Sigma is because what's better than an A rank in a video game?
Oh, the rabbit hole for this is deep. Short form is that Alpha-Beta-Omega is a specific genre of typically M/M male pregnancy fan fiction. One that people have taken seriously enough to go to court over. Imagine explaining "knotting" to a judge.
Why?
The movie actually has a pretty good analogy for those people included within it, it's obviously not just the choosing of the blue pill, but the character Cypher, as in someone that's able to recognize and see that there are larger issues and maybe on some level see the truth, but rather than confronting them he chooses to go back into the fantasy because it's more comfortable than reality, which I think is pretty interesting, I should probably re-watch it since I haven't seen it in a long time, I was probably like 12 the last time I watched it.
Well, of course it's a theory and the movie definitely works in a lot of levels, being cyberpunk fiction it can easily be read as a critique of the current economic system and the way in which we have to perform the role of office drone in order to survive and the red-pill could easily be an analogy for that, I think the reason why it works it's because it can be read in a lot of manners.
I don't think that matters, while it was definitely intended to mean different thing and most likely meant to be a critique of the economic system of exploitation under which we live, I mean since it's after all Cyberpunk and most Cyberpunk is about that, too many things in the movie also lend themselves to a trans reading, which is particularly relevant since again the two directors who were also the lead writers are tans and even if they were not out or even if they didn't know at the time it's likely they inserted a lot of their insecurities, after all feeling like you're trapped in a dream or a Matrix like fake reality is pretty common among trans people, so it's a bit disingenuous to claim that it's exclusively up to interpretation the fact that there's obviously something there even if it was subconscious on the part of the writers.
Hmmm, I mean sexism is primitive and dumb, but yeah it's pretty hard to avoid considering that we're constantly bombarded by media and culture that bombard us with sexist stereotypes, including what to wear and what to like all of which is pretty absurd, but to be fair reality is practically a joke considering how absurd it is.
If I can bring more awareness to the Omegaverse monstrosity to this website and everywhere, I'll feel like I've done my dutyOh, the rabbit hole for this is deep. Short form is that Alpha-Beta-Omega is a specific genre of typically M/M male pregnancy fan fiction. One that people have taken seriously enough to go to court over. Imagine explaining "knotting" to a judge.
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The sad thing is, I'm totally not shocked by this. It's just a really weird form of people taking shit way too fucking seriously.I figure the reason they're going with Sigma is because what's better than an A rank in a video game?
Oh, the rabbit hole for this is deep. Short form is that Alpha-Beta-Omega is a specific genre of typically M/M male pregnancy fan fiction. One that people have taken seriously enough to go to court over. Imagine explaining "knotting" to a judge.
Why?A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question (Published 2020)
What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse?
I haven't read too many other werewolf genre series honestly, if you can recommend a few good ones, I'd like to check them out. But yes, the whole alpha/beta/gamma/etc stuff of the structure, can get tiresome. Like, I don't have a problem with the idea of "groups of individuals usually stratify themselves socially , along certain lines, making a heirarchy of sorts" because most social animals DO that. The way it's presented can be annoying though, if done poorly.
Erm....dunno about werewolf genre per se, but there's lots of urban fantasy/paranormal romance stories which have werewolves in them. There's Kate Locke's (or whatever he current pen name is) Immortal Empire Series, or Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series. Both are alternative history books set in England, under Victoria, written by women living in the Americas, and have werewolves and vampires, (because if you have werewolves, you have to have vampires as well). Cliches everyone is seemingly obliged to use don't just apply to werewolves having alphas, of course.
Have you ever heard the expression. "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose"? This is it. To some people's minds, what good are your achievements if others aren't crushed by it?
Yeah it's not really anything new, as far as behavior, it's more just, at least my take on it, is a new term for a very old behavioral trait. It's funny that you said Sigmachad, as my brain did go to a similar place, due to a Spiffing Brit video about how he made this ridiculously macho character in...I think Crusader Kings 3, that he called MegaChad. So to me, it's just The Chaddiest of Chads.
