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Saved you a click: the whole "alpha wolf/lone wolf" thing, which was never true for wolves[0], and unnecessarily became a template for modern masculinity in the concept of the "alpha male" and related hierarchy[1]. It also inadvertently brought the world the Omegaverse, which I leave as an exercise for the reader.

This is the kind of thing people are talking about when they talk about "toxic masculinity" btw.

[0]https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-myth-of-the-a...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_and_beta_male

parent krapp 10 months ago

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