FL Lady Posted September 4, 2010 Posted September 4, 2010 Will, you're grounded from referring to height any more on any thread. Have you ever heard of Napoleon, by the way? How about Martin Luther King? Do you think those guys might have been "Alpha"? Here is a list of "famous short guys" you can use to bolster your ego. Interesting that they don't even consider 5'9" "short." Every time you want to pity yourself, whine or discuss your height, go here: http://www.tallmenshoes.com/heoffashpe.html I have to say, I laughed out loud when I read this response. I agree 100%!
FL Lady Posted September 4, 2010 Posted September 4, 2010 I think a woman who goes :love: over the alleged "alphamale" is somebody who is making up for her own insecurities - especially when she claims she is an "alphafemale". Just grow up! Woman executive here and I disagree totally. I feel fortunate and blessed to be here in the USA and love all the opportunities that abound- for both genders. Alpha or not, being a male or female leader is great. There will always be followers in both genders. Life is good for both in positive environments.
meerkat stew Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 OP is correct, it is a completely inapt descriptor of human beings. The closest men to a true "alpha male" standard are either incarcerated or close to it.
witabix Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 what do you mean?? Existential crisis warning.
witabix Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Chicken or egg? When a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? I don't really understand that... what are u trying to say? I shall explain. If a chicken is laying an egg in a forest, lets say its a Spotted Forest Chicken, and a tree falls on it, it will be shorter than it was before the tree fell on it. It will become a Lesser Spotted Forest Chicken. Clear now?
oss91 Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 "Chicken or egg? When a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" No, it makes no sound. The falling tree makes nothing but sound waves. It takes someone or something with a capability to interpret those said sound waves (ears) into something more. Only then will the fallen tree have made any noise. If a tree falls in the woods and only a deaf person is within hearing distance, does the fallen tree make a sound? No.
MrNate Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 "Chicken or egg? When a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" No, it makes no sound. The falling tree makes nothing but sound waves. It takes someone or something with a capability to interpret those said sound waves (ears) into something more. Only then will the fallen tree have made any noise. If a tree falls in the woods and only a deaf person is within hearing distance, does the fallen tree make a sound? No. Lol, this is actually true. Simple physics.
witabix Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 "Chicken or egg? When a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" No, it makes no sound. The falling tree makes nothing but sound waves. It takes someone or something with a capability to interpret those said sound waves (ears) into something more. Only then will the fallen tree have made any noise. If a tree falls in the woods and only a deaf person is within hearing distance, does the fallen tree make a sound? No. I liked that description. Yes, it makes rarefactions and compressions of the intervening medium. So the deaf person may sense the sound as a vibration in his/her bones, pedantic? Yes.
Author hydorclops Posted September 5, 2010 Author Posted September 5, 2010 Which came first the chicken or the egg? Following natural selection, the first chicken hatched from an egg created by birds that were not chickens. The egg came first.
witabix Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Which came first the chicken or the egg? Following natural selection, the first chicken hatched from an egg created by birds that were not chickens. The egg came first. So what was KFC called in those days? KFBTWEBCOD? Kentucky Fried Birds That Will Eventually Become Chickens One Day?
anne1707 Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Woman executive here and I disagree totally. I feel fortunate and blessed to be here in the USA and love all the opportunities that abound- for both genders. Alpha or not, being a male or female leader is great. There will always be followers in both genders. Life is good for both in positive environments. But why the need to label people as alpha-, beta- etc. That is what I find so unneccesary and pointless. I don't need to be given a label to know who I am, what I have achieved and to gain a sense of self-worth. I would not want to be labelled and I would therefore not label others like this. It seems to me that someone who feels the need to promote their self-perceived "alpha-ness" (for want of a better word) is someone who is trying to tell the world to look at them and that they are better than the rest. I find that distasteful and as I said in my first post in this thread, a sign of insecurity.
Ruby Slippers Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Did I miss the memo that it's Alpha Male week on LS?
skydiveaddict Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Did I miss the memo that it's Alpha Male week on LS? Yes you must have missed it. Next week is skydiver week here on LS.
FL Lady Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Yes you must have missed it. Next week is skydiver week here on LS. And the week after that is Florida week: surfing, Florida orange juice, sun tanning, and using Rosetta stone to learn how to speak Spanish to survive in Miami.
pantherj Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 When I use the term 'alpha male', I'm talking about the velosa raptor of the modern world. The biggest, strongest, most athletic men, who attract any women they want by their physical appearance. Your pudgy 5'8" boss is not an alpha male. I couldn't give a toss if he's confident around his employees, so is Bill Gates, and that guy is the quintessential beta male. Good leader? Who cares? There are plenty of beta male leaders all over the world. MTV has a formula for creating reality tv shows and generating massive ratings. The formula is as follows: - find some alpha males - find some skanky average looking women - put them all in a house together - add alcohol 'Jersey Shore' is just the latest example of MTV's formula. Alpha males are real, and they don't look like your short, dumpy office manager. They are tall, muscular men, with v-shaped bodies.
AD1980 Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 'Jersey Shore' is just the latest example of MTV's formula. Alpha males are real, and they don't look like your short, dumpy office manager. They are tall, muscular men, with v-shaped bodies. The guys on the Jersey Shore are far from tall in fact there all on the shorter side..
pantherj Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 The guys on the Jersey Shore are far from tall in fact there all on the shorter side.. They are on the short side as alpha males go, but they fit the bill.
AD1980 Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 (edited) They are on the short side as alpha males go, but they fit the bill. They are on the short side in general And about 2% of the male population actually has six packs and is that level of ripped so the idea the average guy has to compete with millions of Men like this is assinine Edited September 5, 2010 by AD1980
pantherj Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 They are on the short side in general And about 2% of the male population actually has six packs and is that level of ripped so the idea the average guy has to compete with millions of Men like this is assinine Who put forward that idea?
AD1980 Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Who put forward that idea? It sounds like people are saying these Men get all the women when they make up a very small perecntage of Men
pantherj Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 It sounds like people are saying these Men get all the women when they make up a very small perecntage of Men I agree that alpha males are in the minority. They (it appears to me) sleep with a lot of different women. I'm not thrilled about that.
MrNate Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 The idea that 'alpha males' are sleeping with all the women is just kind of silly to me. Rather than worry about this one subjective, subset of the total population.....I think it's better to ask ourselves, what's holding each of us back individually from obtaining our desires? And what do we need to work on to do so? And most importantly- Are we willing to? I think a lot of answers can come from that.
threebyfate Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 To describe an alpha male is like describing the wind. You know one when you meet one.
pantherj Posted September 5, 2010 Posted September 5, 2010 Women would say they are like the wind, they blow in your face, and then vanish.
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