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== Criticism == | == Criticism == | ||
[[File:Adam.jpg|thumb|Do not take advice from this [[wagecuck]] about how humans work]] | |||
Hyper-liberal media and academia have challenged the notion of a human alpha male recently, saying animalistic concepts are applied to humans is pseudo-science.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti86veZBjU</ref> | Hyper-liberal media and academia have challenged the notion of a human alpha male recently, saying animalistic concepts are applied to humans is pseudo-science.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti86veZBjU</ref> | ||
However, there is nothing pseudo-scientific or conspiratorial about the fact that men differ in their social, romantic and material success. With differential ability and success, it is inevitable that someone will be the best one and there is a host of evidence that women choose the best man of the ones that convincingly show interest ([[hypergamy]]). What is special about humans is that they compete in a wide variety of ways and culture determines to which degree physical aggression as in animals is involved. | However, there is nothing pseudo-scientific or conspiratorial about the fact that men differ in their social, romantic and material success. With differential ability and success, it is inevitable that someone will be the best one and there is a host of evidence that women choose the best man of the ones that convincingly show interest ([[hypergamy]]). What is special about humans is that they compete in a wide variety of ways and culture determines to which degree physical aggression as in animals is involved. | ||
Contrary to U.S. comedian and TV host [[Adam Conover]] (see image), the term "alpha" is indeed used sporadically in academia to genuinely describe humans, not just non-human animals.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/14471033/Reproductive_strategies_and_relationship_preferences_associated_with_prestigious_and_dominant_men</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0003347277900148</ref><ref>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/disorders-of-mental-handicap-institutions/C3CF1EA30CCCB729332110B44218F1EB</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10818-012-9140-6</ref><ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-04852-038</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pMwk3haZhioC&oi=fnd&pg=PA375&dq=%22alpha+male%22+human&ots=SrKjMFBExF&sig=6tZfzkttgDXS6ccZa_7_bRnrAKM#v=onepage&q=%22alpha%20male%22%20&f=false</ref><ref>http://www.successfulexecutive.com.au/files/r0405c-pdf-eng.pdf</ref><ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X07313357</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886907000955</ref> | |||
Sometimes academics will only use alpha in humans to describe formally ascribed ranks such as "kings".<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Denise_Cummins/publication/228380735_Dominance_status_and_social_hierarchies/links/0c9605272d5c4810c5000000/Dominance-status-and-social-hierarchies.pdf</ref> | |||
While others use alpha to mean a set of nebulous traits colloquially associated with male sexual success, such as masculinity and extroversion.<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/697086v1.abstract</ref> | |||
While other academics focus on alpha as a sexually successful human<ref>https://www.academia.edu/14471033/Reproductive_strategies_and_relationship_preferences_associated_with_prestigious_and_dominant_men</ref>. | |||
Some have argued that the Alpha/Beta/Omega hierarchy is illegitimate, in that it bases sexual success too much upon behavior and status instead of looks. [[Lookism|Looks]] theorists suggest using the Slayer/Incel hierarchy instead. Still the terminology could as well be used for social hierarchies that are primarily based on looks. | Some have argued that the Alpha/Beta/Omega hierarchy is illegitimate, in that it bases sexual success too much upon behavior and status instead of looks. [[Lookism|Looks]] theorists suggest using the Slayer/Incel hierarchy instead. Still the terminology could as well be used for social hierarchies that are primarily based on looks. | ||