Time for the Alpha Males?????

[Kilgore Trout]

In just about everything I've done in life, I've sooner or later taken a leadership position, but this "alpha male" pseudo-science really cracks me up. Near as I can see, it's just another bit of BS for our modern age.

I find it highly similar to the fad of people calling themselves "type-a" personalities. In both cases, people who call themselves either an "alpha male" or a "type-a personality," seem to have a tendency to confuse being loud, impatient, pushy, and frantic with being somehow dominant or a leader of some type.

I find it an amusing, yet useful filter which lets me know how seriously to take someone and how to interact with them if I have to, or to dismiss them if interaction is optional.

 

[Revoltingest]

I find it highly similar to the fad of people calling themselves "type-a" personalities. In both cases, people who call themselves either an "alpha male" or a "type-a personality," seem to have a tendency to confuse being loud, impatient, pushy, and frantic with being somehow dominant or a leader of some type.

I find it an amusing, yet useful filter which lets me know how seriously to take someone and how to interact with them if I have to, or to dismiss them if interaction is optional.

You sound like one of those alpha type A guys.
(I'm intimidated.)

 

[Sunstone]

I find it highly similar to the fad of people calling themselves "type-a" personalities. In both cases, people who call themselves either an "alpha male" or a "type-a personality," seem to have a tendency to confuse being loud, impatient, pushy, and frantic with being somehow dominant or a leader of some type.

I find it an amusing, yet useful filter which lets me know how seriously to take someone and how to interact with them if I have to, or to dismiss them if interaction is optional.

Most self-proclaimed "alpha males" I know of could not reliably lead a pack of sweet-starved cub scouts downhill to an ice cream truck.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You sound like one of those alpha type A guys.
(I'm intimidated.)

I'm more of a type-L, theta male. Except on Tuesdays, then I tend to be a type-W, omicron male. You're probably just intimidated because of my superior good-looks.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm more of a type-L, theta male. Except on Tuesdays, then I tend to be a type-W, omicron male. You're probably just intimidated because of my superior good-looks.

And the raw animal magnetism.

 

[Smart_Guy]

I keep hearing of this alpha male thing. Is there no alpha female?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

And the raw animal magnetism.

I do have exceptionally high levels of iron in my blood.

 

[Revoltingest]

I do have exceptionally high levels of iron in my blood.

Hemochromatosis, eh?
You need to avoid adult beverages & shrimps from the barbie.
Bummer, man!

 

[Smart_Guy]

There is a car called Alpha Romeo.

What the... !!!

 

[Flame]

A few of the men I'd accept having "alpha" status

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