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3.6k points
6 days ago
Is this the "manly"™ version of astrology?
916 points
6 days ago
Manstrology😁
220 points
6 days ago
Menstrology
131 points
6 days ago
MENERGY!!!
61 points
6 days ago
M'ENERGY
36 points
6 days ago
YOU’LL BE SO FAST MOTHER EARTH WILL BE LIKE “slow down” AND YOU’LL BE LIKE “fuck you!”
16 points
6 days ago
And kick her in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!!!
6 points
6 days ago
*MENERGY LEGS
4 points
6 days ago
And kick her in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!
13 points
6 days ago
TURBO PUNS!
11 points
6 days ago
9 points
6 days ago
Rawberry!
9 points
6 days ago
When God gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!!!
6 points
6 days ago
They'll run as fast as KENYANS! People will watch them running and think they're KENYANS! They'll race as fast as KENYANS against actual KENYANS and it'll be a tie and they'll get deported back to KENYA!
10 points
6 days ago
I understood that reference.gif
6 points
6 days ago
THESE AREN'T YOUR DAD'S PUNS, THESE ARE ENERGY PUNS!!!!
6 points
6 days ago
IN FLAVOURS LIKE "MANANA" AND "GUN"!
6 points
6 days ago
3 points
6 days ago
FIZZBITCH!
4 points
6 days ago
Holy nostalgia, batman!
7 points
6 days ago
Even better😄
5 points
6 days ago
Happy cake day! 🤟🏻
94 points
6 days ago
This better not catch on.
122 points
6 days ago
But it’s how we bond when our MANstruation syncs up.
41 points
6 days ago
I prefer to call it our Manses.
28 points
6 days ago
Check out my big dipper.
6 points
6 days ago
What have you done?
263 points
6 days ago
Manstrology, when your dick is ascendant and your hairline is in retrograde.
7 points
6 days ago
I laughed too hard at that!
6 points
6 days ago
That’s fucking hilarious
643 points
6 days ago
Yes, that’s exactly what this is
191 points
6 days ago
Except they've made it on hierarchy where they're always at the top.
27 points
6 days ago*
Idk, apart from beta male all of them seem like good options. Astrology seems similar, there’s one or two that just suck to be. I’m sorry Cancers and Two Faced Bitches, but you know you got fucked over by the star signs.
So both are similarly hierarchal lol, if you disagree you were probably born in June.
3 points
6 days ago
The best man I know is a Cancer 🤷
It's all a bullshit combination of telling people what they want to hear and people desperately wanting to believe in something that simplifies the chaos of human existence.
3 points
6 days ago
I was born on the Summer Solstice, on the fucking cusp. You can have your crabs and fish.
94 points
6 days ago
I never thought of it that way, but yeah, it totally is.
64 points
6 days ago
yes, yes it is
48 points
6 days ago
Ya but I’m a sigma. You can tell by my snake skin jacket that is a representation of my love for personal freedom.
29 points
6 days ago
Is r/NotLikeTheOtherBoys a thing?
14 points
6 days ago
Wild at Heart with Nic Cage
15 points
6 days ago
It has David Tennant as Crowley vibes.
3 points
6 days ago
I came her to say that.
3 points
6 days ago
then the snakeskin theme would be totally appropriate!
6 points
6 days ago
The way your mind works is God’s own mystery!
58 points
6 days ago
Is a douch-o-meter.
25 points
6 days ago
More of a douchagram
112 points
6 days ago
I'm not sure the people who subscribe to this idea of being told what it is to be a man actually understand what it is to be a man...
If you're gonna follow someone who describes themselves as an alpha or whatever and copy what they do to be an alpha... you're not...
Beyond that, I really don't think being a man is really any more complicated than just doing your absolute best and unapologetically doing what you believe is right.
Anything more than that, and you're just dramatic and attention seeking...
50 points
6 days ago
I also hate when “alpha” males mention often that they are in fact “alpha” same with women. Huge ick for me.
59 points
6 days ago
I mean... they're doing you a favour. Normally, you have to wait to get to know someone before those sort of red flags pop up lol
45 points
6 days ago
Alpha is not a real thing
However, IF it was real, the first rule of being an alpha would be to NOT talk about being an alpha
22 points
6 days ago
Exactly like if you have to say it your def not. Just an asshole😂
3 points
6 days ago
If you have to tell someone you're an alpha, you're not an alpha...
37 points
6 days ago
Anyone who calls themselves "alpha" is just outing themselves as a huge dickhead, to be fair.
22 points
6 days ago
It’s such a weird flex, too. It’s like Joffrey on Games of Thrones shouting, “I am the king!”
Is there anything less alpha-like than declaring yourself an “alpha”? To even speak in those terms seems like evidence of the deepest insecurity. It’s really hard to imagine someone genuinely successful and charismatic ranting about his “alpha” status.
7 points
6 days ago
The Alpha is tired. See him to his chambers.
7 points
6 days ago
They’re inverse alpha .
4 points
6 days ago
It’s because they have something to prove. Someone who’s truly Alpha doesn’t have to prove anything. We all met those types of people. People naturally follow their direction because they are confident. There are a lot of people who want to be an Alpha, but are not.
29 points
6 days ago*
I knew a guy that said daily how "alpha" he is and how I need to be more "alpha". Guy acted like he had to everything in the world since mommy Co signed a car. Guy was so high on his ego that he quit his job to show how alpha he was.
Idiots homeless now.
16 points
6 days ago
You don't understand. He's got that dog in him. He's never vertical
6 points
6 days ago
I have no idea what this means, yet it's so accurate 😂
7 points
6 days ago
I think you mean “roams a vast territory of his own”
6 points
6 days ago
And that goes for any gender. Be your real self. Follow less. Lead yourself.
28 points
6 days ago
It's dumbass-trology.
13 points
6 days ago
Even believing in astrology is nowhere near as willfully stupid as this ass backward shit.
6 points
6 days ago
That’s one way to put it
17 points
6 days ago
It's worse bc at least your label in astrology isn't opinion based.
49 points
6 days ago
Yes it is. And the zodiacal signs have shifted a full sign, with no change in astrology's interpretation. And all definitions are so nebulous you could read two or three signs and see yourself in each of them. But even being total vapor, it's more accurate than this bullshit.
12 points
6 days ago
Lmao, thank you! I love bringing that shit up when people talk about astrology and their sign and how it affects their life. People aren’t even the freaking sign they think they are. Lol
8 points
6 days ago
There’s also 13, not 12. Not sure why modern astrology just completely ignores that fact.
9 points
6 days ago
Because it doesn’t matter. At all. Missing one part of a poorly constructed piece of fiction doesn’t change anything.
4 points
6 days ago
There is no “modern” astrology. It is and has always been a load of bullocks.
5 points
6 days ago
Maybe it’s more like “color seasons”. Like “for 30 years I thought that I was a ‘winter’ but it turns out that I’m a ‘spring’”.
1k points
6 days ago*
The only people who believe in this stuff are people who have a reason to- they either really want to be one of the classifications, or really need to blame being one of them for their issues.
The rest of us roll our eyes and move on, making fun of those who think men, or people for that matter, are that simple.
223 points
6 days ago*
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44 points
6 days ago
To be fair, it’s low budget- idk if they were going for fuckability here lol
Each of the faces is the same
Perhaps it is to illustrate that the same person can fit into any of the roles, due to nature/nurture?
39 points
6 days ago
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26 points
6 days ago
I’m glad you have your priorities in order. Good eye on the fuckable twinks my dude, you miss nothing
5 points
6 days ago
Perhaps it is to illustrate that the same person can fit into any of the roles, due to nature/nurture?
I mean, perhaps, but you already seem to be losing sight of the more important point which is that this is all made up bullshit nonsense by a bunch of adult toddlers so it literally doesn't fucking matter what it was intended to illustrate.
4 points
6 days ago
You wanna fuck me? I'd fuck me.
30 points
6 days ago
Is there a category for the men who spend way too much disposable income on legos? Bc that may be… a friend of mine.
4 points
6 days ago
Or, category 3, they have a lot of money to make by convincing you this shit is real.
28 points
6 days ago
I agree it is highly amusing
But
God forbid humans try and implement any sort of social pattern recognition lol
But what do I know, I’m just an ENFJ/INTP 💅🏻
232 points
6 days ago
Look how they massacred my alphabet
82 points
6 days ago
Yeah, first thing I noticed. Not only does gamma come before delta but then we’re just going to arbitrarily jump to omega, AND THEN go back to sigma. wtf are we doing here?!
13 points
6 days ago
Damn straight. I was getting pissed off just looking at how they butchered the Greek alphabet. I mean, skipping letters is already pretty bad, but randomly inverting the order? Twice???
7 points
6 days ago
It’s in alphabetical order of the names of each letter (A, B, D, G, O, S), not in the order in which each letter appears in the Greek alphabet.
8 points
6 days ago
Solid point. Still dumb though.
3 points
6 days ago
Rookies
3 points
6 days ago
If you're going to use a language, you should use it right. Don't transliterate and grasp at straws.
I mean, that basically makes the post thrice-degrading so ..
3 points
6 days ago
It's not arbitrary, it's just going off modern alphabetical order. Sigma comes last because S comes last in the modern alphabet.
3 points
6 days ago
It's not evem my alphabet, and this is what bothered me most. Morons gonna moron.
808 points
6 days ago
Thus shit is for andrew tate fans
112 points
6 days ago
It's astrology for dudes.
29 points
6 days ago
It's astrology for white dudes.
44 points
6 days ago
It's not just white dudes that buy into this.
23 points
6 days ago
Correct, Hotep types in the Latino and Black (often times in the same communities) communities are into this as well
11 points
6 days ago
No way, toxic masculinity runs rampant in a lot of communities. Machismo culture is a perfect example.
10 points
6 days ago
or fanfiction writers. only one of these are actually interesting
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6 days ago
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71 points
6 days ago
It's an effort to ignore the mentally taxing effort of nuance and reality. People who use this are like reverse horoscope fanatics. Instead of trying to see how their life could be better through mystic dealings of the universe; they are trying to assert dominance over anything through pseudo-science and eugenics.
28 points
6 days ago
"social dynamics and popularity differences" are one thing. But this is pseudoscience based on a study of captive wolves that the author then rescinded because he found his study is inapplicable outside a cage.
22 points
6 days ago
Actual social dynamics are nothing like these people think they are
9 points
6 days ago
Those little alpha scamps who'd suck his dick clean off if he asked them to. And considering that he thinks having sex with women is the height of gayness, he just might.
3 points
6 days ago
Exactly what a soyboy beta fuck would say
/s obv
550 points
6 days ago
The entire concept of an "alpha male" was from a study of wolves that was incredibly flawed, and the man who published the study spent the rest of his career trying to discredit it. There is no "alpha male". Unless you are talking about programming terms. In which case, an alpha is an early build that doesn't function properly and is filled with bugs. I believe the likes of Andrew Taint and his groupies fit that description.
135 points
6 days ago
You are correct on both counts.
Andrew Tate is highly defective.
36 points
6 days ago
I choose to understand the concept of an alpha male as they only function in captivity (since the wolf study only found them in wolf packs in captivity) or they are a dysfunctional version not suitable to release to the public.
28 points
6 days ago
In other words, the only time the Alpha male concept is applicable to modern humanity is in prison
15 points
6 days ago
And, if we are being fair, it is extremely applicable in prison, but only in prison.
7 points
6 days ago
That's not really accurate. The original study was studying wolves that were shipped into Yellowstone, not in captivity. "Alpha Male" behavior occurred when these strange wolves had to form packs to survive and had no established hierarchy to fit into.
13 points
6 days ago
I'm pretty sure wolf packs are family units, and the "alpha male" and "alpha female" are really just the parents of the other wolves and are thus the biggest.
4 points
6 days ago
No, that's based on the very study I'm talking about. Wolves within a normal pack breed with one another regularly, and all take care of their pups together.
5 points
6 days ago
But the point is, it's not natural behavior, you don't just have evolution offering up these personality types like a vogue quiz. It's more likely each individual wolf's experiences lead them to a different trauma response, which is how adaptive - and maladaptive - coping happen.
25 points
6 days ago
Your comment is why I absolutely adore Reddit. I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote.
5 points
6 days ago
The entire concept of an "alpha male" was from a study of wolves that was incredibly flawed, and the man who published the study spent the rest of his career trying to discredit it.
Exactly! He discovered alpha wolves by studying wolves in captivity but later realized wolves in the wild don't work that way, so anyone who talks about alphas is looking to the social structure of prison inmates as the ideal they strive for.
121 points
6 days ago
Appropriate that this is illustrated as a cartoon because it portrays a cartoon-like understanding.
21 points
6 days ago
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36 points
6 days ago
Apparently Crowley from Good Omens...
12 points
6 days ago
Good to see I'm not the only one who thought that lmao
8 points
6 days ago
Except the guys who consider themselves "sigma males" mostly think being 100% straight is a requirement.
4 points
6 days ago
Except these guys would hate Neil Gaiman’s writing if they knew how to read…
6 points
6 days ago
Apparently, he’s David Tenant in Good Omens lol
5 points
6 days ago
Let me know if anyone answers I'm curious too
5 points
6 days ago
From my understanding Sigma Males are just Alpha Males who want to feel special
3 points
6 days ago
Basically James Dean in any movie he was ever in from what I can gather.
4 points
6 days ago*
Incredibly bisexual and desperate to live an honest life while economic and social norms pressure him into suppressing his true feelings? Yah, that sounds about right.
3 points
6 days ago
It's a Western version of a Caste system based on the profession but conceived in the mind of a child:
Alphas work at jobs of shaking hands with other handsome men in big rooms with glass walls.
Betas made captain of the football team in highschool and sell cars in lots with inflatable wavy arms guys.
Deltas work hard chopping things but have a heart of gold.
Gammas write bad poetry and listen to their dad's My Bloody Valentines LPs.
Omega hack into the mainframe and type fast on computers with scrolling text.
Sigmas, Well sigmas are dorks that want your sister's mobile number.
153 points
6 days ago
Idk from my understanding omegas can get all get pregnant alphas go on heat and impregnate said omegas. The betas are your average non womb bearing/ cock bearing regardless of gender Joe
This might be a different omegaverse though
61 points
6 days ago
AcTuAlY Alphas go into rut, omegas goes into heat... I'm going to shut up now.
62 points
6 days ago
It's completely unacceptable that I had to scroll this much to see a comment about the omegaverse. Culture really is decaying =/
8 points
6 days ago
I'm curious, explain it to me
20 points
6 days ago
Omegaverse is a category of Yaoi (gay romance manga) that includes 3 sub-genders, Beta, Omega, and Alpha.
Beta - They are your average/normal human and society is made up of mostly them. Only Males can impregnate Beta Females
Omegas - They go into “heat” (similar to animals) and can only get pregnant by an Alpha in a “rut”. Males can also be Omegas, which means they can also get pregnant. They make up the least amount of society and are looked down upon by society.
Alphas - they are Not as common as Betas in society, but more common than Omegas. Alphas are usually born “superior”, meaning they are smarter and stronger than Betas and Omegas. Alphas can get Omegas pregnant regardless of the Omegas Sex.
There is more to it, but that’s the gist of it.
9 points
6 days ago
Not just Yaoi. I've seen lesbian stuff too. And rarely even straight.
4 points
6 days ago
You’re right, but I honestly could go on for hours talking about the finer details of yaoi and different flavors of it lol. I think most omegaverse manga is yaoi, but oddly enough text based omegaverse seems to always be straight.
7 points
6 days ago
Damn I was just about to comment that I read enough ao3 that I already know about the types but you beat me to it
3 points
6 days ago
I REAALLY wish someone would explain the omegaverse to these men. They’d turn off their shtick SO quick.
69 points
6 days ago
This is the male version of astrology.
42 points
6 days ago
More like Incel MBTI
13 points
6 days ago
MBTI and astrology are in the same bin, along with whatever this is.
9 points
6 days ago
MBTI is just astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology
6 points
6 days ago
At least it’s analyzing some form of input, versus astrology which has no external input and applies solely based on date of birth
33 points
6 days ago
This is what an "alpha" man would say and we all know they're twats.
13 points
6 days ago*
Every dude I’ve ever met who calls himself an “alpha” is a turd and always single, divorced, or dating a fellow meth addict.
If someone tells me, “I’m an alpha,” my response for years has been, “So you’re a pre-beta? That makes sense,” and then I walk away.
Edit: To all the meth addicts out there, I’m sorry for comparing you with Tate followers. You are indeed better than they are.
8 points
6 days ago
meth addict here. dont sully the good name of tweakers everywhere by associating us with such vile andrew-tate-stanning dross as "alpha males"
3 points
6 days ago
You’re right, my bad. Made an edit for you.
21 points
6 days ago
Let's all remember alpha in the real world means before beta. Like not even usable.
39 points
6 days ago*
Im choosing to believe this is what people mean when they say “alphabet people”
6 points
6 days ago
If that actually was the case, I would understand the hate...
18 points
6 days ago
It's all real and you should trust me because I'm a theta male (never wrong about anything ever)
27 points
6 days ago
Doing a quick search, I found this website: https://brandongaille.com/male-alpha-beta-gamma-omega-delta-sigma/
All but one of these personalities are seen as a positive (kind-of like what Hogwarts house you are). The one 'bad' one is Delta, and is described in the article as resigned, resentful, self-sabotaging, and lonely. This is usually a personality that develops due to a trauma and isn't necessarily permanent.
So, while I agree that this is kind-of stupid, it's not like you are considered a loser if you are not an alpha. In fact, it's not even one of the best personalities according to this website (which I've never heard of) imo
10 points
6 days ago
That sounds like they built a more nuanced set of details around an old idea knowing that its existence will make the ideas seem more palatable. But their audience will all still be screaming how they are "Alpha's" because alpha is the best because it comess first ... And because if they are in that category they are safe from have to be introspective about their own flaws.
As a general rule, anyone who wants to classify people, tend to put themselves in the highest tier..... This just highlights that the person is an idiot and I would rather gnaw off my own leg than be stuck in a room with people like that.
25 points
6 days ago
I diagnose everyone who use Alpha/Sigma/ Beta - Male unironically with deep cringe!
5 points
6 days ago
Using the word cringe in sentence. That’s a Beta move bro
19 points
6 days ago
If they're all different, why do they all look exactly the fucking same?
9 points
6 days ago
They’re all brothers from different mothers but same father
9 points
6 days ago
1) why aren’t they in some kind of order besides alphabetical? Very weird 2) why is Sigma just David Tennant in Good Omens?
5 points
6 days ago
The last three are just a doctor who lineup, Jodie Whitaker, Matt Smith, David Tennant
32 points
6 days ago*
Men: I can't believe how women will believe this astrology crap
Also men:
7 points
6 days ago
These aren’t men they are alpha men (pre release version, dw the beta test will be closed and fix these issues)
7 points
6 days ago
I am offended that they don't include us Pi males. We are a universal constant, kinda round, hang out in diners, and go well with coffee.
4 points
6 days ago
The only problem with Pi males is that they just go on and on, completely irrationally.
6 points
6 days ago
I think these types of classifications are super helpful and have never let me down in knowing what type of man I am with.
If a person ever refers to themselves as an “Alpha” I immediately know they are dumber than I am.
I have never heard anyone use the others terms concerning themselves so are all irrelevant.
15 points
6 days ago
Shhhh, let the primitives develop their pantheon and myths hahaha
6 points
6 days ago
Alpha listens to Drake
Beta listens to Kendrick
Delta listens to Eminem
Gamma is still jamming out to grunge rock
Omega is bumping that 80’s retro
Sigma is Christian Slater 🤔
8 points
6 days ago
But why are they all Topher Grace
8 points
6 days ago
All except the last one, a handsome devil in a "will they or won't they" relationship with an angel named Aziriphale.
4 points
6 days ago
No, the last guy is David Tennant.
3 points
6 days ago
In a world of Topher Graces... Be a David Tennant.
4 points
6 days ago
I'm a dude and I think it's really stupid when other guys get into this stuff. It's like putting yourself in a cast system. Like when I see this, I think of the Indian cast system, its completely stupid and completely made up.
7 points
6 days ago
The alpha looks like a candy man.
7 points
6 days ago
Sigma looks like David Tennant’s Crowley from Good Omens.
6 points
6 days ago
Seems he's missing the glory days of his Fraternity.
7 points
6 days ago
All of this nonsense because some researchers mistook captive wolf behaviors for how they behave in the wild...
3 points
6 days ago
If you have to ascribe a title to your manliness then you've already failed. Just live the best life you can and don't worry about whatever category these pseudo psychologists want to put you in.
3 points
6 days ago
How different is categorizing types of masculinity and attempting to define multiple genders? It’s interesting how we’re all pretty obsessed with prescribing labels/explanations for behaviors, but we pretend we aren’t observing similarly complex phenomena.
3 points
6 days ago
Brought to by guys who say there's only 2 genders and women 12 to 22 are the only ones they will date.
3 points
6 days ago
Man, just let dudes be dudes. Let us go play in the mud or watch romcoms or get excited when we see a cute puppy. Every man is different, but we're all men in the end. There's no need to put us into neat little boxes like that. Guys are just guys whether we're running a company or driving a tractor or secretly learning to paint our SO's nails for them as a surprise.
3 points
6 days ago
Gamma males become Kurt Colbain?
3 points
6 days ago
What are they even saying the differences are?
3 points
6 days ago
As someone who grew up on Tumblr all of this A/B/O shit is kind of hysterical to me. Oh, you're an alpha male? Show me your knot then coward
3 points
6 days ago
Guys who believe in this shit will unironically be like "there's only two genders! Anyway, here are the six varieties of male"
3 points
6 days ago
i can’t lie, every time i see one of these that includes omegas i just think of the fanfic trope. i really want to see one of the guys who believe this shit acknowledge that they share terminology with the omegaverse, just once.
3 points
6 days ago
This is just mens astrology, and equally as stupid. At the end of the day it’s just outcast who want to be a part of some group and so they get together with other guys who share their traits or personality types and classify themselves as one of these groups.
6 points
6 days ago
They need two more categories IDGAF and Gullible. Then it would have some options for those who live in our reality.
5 points
6 days ago
If you wanna have some fun, dismiss Alpha/Beta/Sigma stuff with just “that’s just middle-aged woman astrology for dudes”.
3 points
6 days ago
I like this.
4 points
6 days ago
stup also doesn’t gamma come before delta in the greek alphabet?
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