What is an "Alpha Male?"

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This statement is rude, prejudiced, and insulting. At the very least you could have said, "I think conventional gender roles are boring." Presenting your own narrow-minded opinion as if it were a fact is not witty, and superciliousness does not become you.

In addition, if something about me threatens you so much that you feel the need to call me boring, then at least have the balls to come out and say it to my face. Don't bury it in a paragraph at the bottom of a post.[/quote This man is rude! You are far from boring. You are a very bright and interesting lady. Pluse you are so cute!!!
 

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:lmao: yeh Spiker..

And Naughty...I can help but to put culture on the mix not only because I come from another culture but I tend to think globaly...I keep remember of all and all and the differences and I keep going just like the battery bunny...

Gisella, for some reason I just can't make out your very cute accent (wonder why?). Where are you from hot blooded lady?:wink:

I think the word you are looking for is sympatico.
 

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Gisella, for some reason I just can't make out your very cute accent (wonder why?). Where are you from hot blooded lady?:wink:

I think the word you are looking for is sympatico.


:tongue: simpatico? Cool...

Thank you, I'm Brasilian with many mixing going on..all of them hot blooded too...:cool:

And about you? Any hot mix going on in your family tree ??? LOL..:biggrin1:
 

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:tongue: simpatico? Cool...

Thank you, I'm Brasilian with many mixing going on..all of them hot blooded too...:cool:

And about you? Any hot mix going on in your family tree ??? LOL..:biggrin1:

BRASIL!!!BRASIL!!!BRASIL!!! OLE, OLE, OLE OLE.....

Yeah, its a strange mix of hot(latin) and cold(swede/german). Kind of confusing at times, maybe even painfully so.:biggrin1:

[edit: Do you Samba? Please say you do!]
 

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BRASIL!!!BRASIL!!!BRASIL!!! OLE, OLE, OLE OLE.....

Yeah, its a strange mix of hot(latin) and cold(swede/german). Kind of confusing at times, maybe even painfully so.:biggrin1:

[edit: Do you Samba? Please say you do!]

You must identify which latin please...like you did with the colds...

:rolleyes: :tongue:

Ps: well..ole ole goes better with spanish speakers...better use 'oba, oba' with Brasilians...lol...
 

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You must identify which latin please...like you did with the colds...

:rolleyes: :tongue:

Ps: well..ole ole goes better with spanish speakers...better use 'oba, oba' with Brasilians...lol...


okay 'oba, oba,...

But on the latin, sorry I don't have to. Though I say a lot I keep some stuff back for the sake of anonymity (if not mystery).:sad:

But look on the good side maybe you'll find out some day.:smile:

[edit(again, from above) Do you samba?]
 

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I'm flummoxed. It seems unobjectionable to premise that the conventional is boring -- almost by definition.

And if "alpha" is a code for conventional notions of manhood, then it seems to me that all the rest follows... all I'm sayin'...

Thing is, I really DON'T think that most people are as boring as the things they say. Too often, speaking goes on without anyone being present. I think that the chatter about alpha males is a good example of this. It's repeating a thousand and one Cosmo magazine stories... Isn't getting at the essence of the alpha male by pure subjective intuition a mechanism precisely for allowing culture to speak through you, to ventriloquize those thousand and one Cosmo articles?

In exactly this manner, I don't think that Chrys is necessarily boring at all. And for myself, I accept the charges of rude and insulting. And although I sincerely apologize for hurting anyone's feelings, I would still do it again simply because I think that what I said was very much worth saying.

As for Chrys's analysis of my rudeness -- in terms of cojones, feeling threatened, etc. -- I would refer you to the discussion on ventriloquizing Cosmo magazine, above. Heh.
 

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For sure I don't quote Cosmopolitan. I don't even read that stuff, FYI. I think these Ideas aren't as much influenced by a magazine, my take is that most ideas are the characteristics of the alpha wolf, transferred to human males. Probably that's a culture issue, but not the issue of a certain magazine, which I don't think has too much good things to say about classic alpha males. I think Cosmopolitan is much to modern and urban to have spread something positive about these classic male features.

Probably that's something for Men's Health.
 

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For sure I don't quote Cosmopolitan. I don't even read that stuff, FYI. I think these Ideas aren't as much influenced by a magazine, my take is that most ideas are the characteristics of the alpha wolf, transferred to human males. Probably that's a culture issue, but not the issue of a certain magazine, which I don't think has too much good things to say about classic alpha males. I think Cosmopolitan is much to modern and urban to have spread something positive about these classic male features.

Probably that's something for Men's Health.

I like you more and more every time you post, Claire.

I haven't read an issue of Cosmo, Glamour, etc. in over ten years. Why? Because I remember most of the articles being sensationalist attention-getting propaganda that seemed meant to shock and entertain much more than to inform. Great if you like that sort of thing, but not my cup of tea.

If I don't even read them, how can I channel them? Or is he suggesting that the entire modern female culture is somehow being subverted by brain-control waves emanating from glitzy magazines? :rolleyes:

I'll stick with Reader's Digest.:wink: