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is certain beta males being pissed off that they aren't alpha males. Which is understandable. Who wouldn't prefer to be the alpha male? The bizarre thing is that many of them seem to direct their anger at women, rather than directly at the alpha males themselves.
Or sometimes they blame feminism. But don't kid yourselves guys, back in the perfect 50s, chicks still dug the alpha males. The pretty girls still married the high school quarterback. The difference is that at least now, the beta males have *some* chance to get sex before marrying the average girl. In the 50s they didn't. So you should thank feminism.
But I assure you, feminism did not create the phenomenon of alpha males, nor did it make women desire them. Nature did that.
Ah, nature. What a bitch she is. So many of the beta males protest that it isn't their fault they're angry about not getting sex with the hottest women -- it's in their nature and nothing will change it!! Well, if that's your theory, then you need to accept that it is just as natural that women prefer alpha males, and nothing is going to change that. So we either mutually work to civilize our baser animal instincts or we don't. But you can't claim biology as a defense while refusing to grant that defense to the opposite sex.
And hey, in the vast majority of social mammal species, the alpha male gets ALL the females and the beta males get NONE. At least not unless they want to risk being actually killed by the alpha male. And that's also how it worked in most human societies through-out history. The tribal leader got all the women and the beta males got nothing. So men, be thankful for equal rights -- it gave you monogamy! If we were still polygamous, Donald Trump would have 5,000 wives and you would get none. :)
P.S. This is all tongue in cheek people, honestly, relax, take a deep breath.
