Red Pill dudes agree: Volunteering can totally be alpha, just as long as you don’t help poor people. Or kittens.

@sn0rkmaiden & @rugbyyogi

Depends on the wine. Nothing is more alpha than Three-Penis Wine

Never forget … being TOO alpha can leave you beta

Imagine having a self-identity so frail that you have to question every moment of your life if what you’re doing fits the personality you want to project. Imagine it! Now stop. That was terrible. Let’s never do that again.

Reading a little further, it appears that I was wrong and maghavan was right: Churchill did leave the army in 1900 after a long period of only nominally being a member anyway. However soon afterwards he joined the Yeomanry (for Americans, read ‘National Guard’) so was still technically military. Not that wearing a giant Napoleonic hussar uniform was normal for the army, of course: Britain has Imperial standards but we also have understated dignity, dash it.

My apologies, maghavan. Have a fruit tea yourself.

@EJ – Yowza. That must have been a real step down for Churchill when he traded in the fur busby for the homburg.

Here’s a flashy 18th century guy, lowering his SMV by sitting like a beta:

Oh hey, since alphas like to argue that it’s uncomfortable for them to sit with their legs together due to their humongous Fort Knox reserves of liquid gold, does that mean mammarily gifted women get to spread their arms wide and take up all the armrests?

I apologize if this gets posted twice, but I think my last post either went to moderation (?) or got ate by wordpress.

@ Nequam

I sort of feel like the kitten thing was an indirect slap at a terrific guy named John Bartlett, who got a fair bit of internet fame for his online kitten-fostering cam (over at http://livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/). He likes video games and Harley-Davidson motorcycles… and is perfectly content to kiss a kitten on cam in front of hundreds of Internet strangers.

Me, I think he’s forgotten more about what it means to be a man than these chucklefucks will ever know.

Thanks for posting that! I hadn’t heard of him. That reminds me of Jackson Galaxy of “My Cat from Hell” fame. Total beta 😉 *swoons*

http://www.thehappylitterbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/403716_320106141361706_126155990756723_941130_1623752596_n.jpg

@EJ, thanks, I’ll go with peppermint

God these guys are so pathetic. I know it’s been noted but is there anything less “alpha” (dumbass concept that it is) than being absolutely pathetically obsessed with what everyone thinks of every little thing you do? I will answer that; no there is not. Real tough guys I know don’t care.

My 1SG during my first Iraq tour absolutely played the role of grumpy alpha tough guy (not a hit on him it’s the role of a 1SG) but absolutely lit up like a Xmas tree when it came to dealing with children and kittens. And it cost him zero credit with everyone actually more respect. These sad sacks are too pathetic to realize that though. I do feel sorry for a good portion of them but they don’t make it easy to.

@Buttercup Q. Skullpants:
THOSE GOLD PANTS THO *swoon*

@sunnysombrera:
…that’s horrible. That’s the worst thing I’ve seen all day. Ugh. I feel physically ill now.

@maghavan:
If explaining yourself is beta, we can be betas together. Being alpha sounds like something to avoid.

Where did all of this alpha beta stuff come from? They do realize they are the only ones who seem to care about it…right?

Add to that the fact that larger mental health community has consciously divorced itself from any concern about how men are affected by things like divorce, parental alienation, abusive partners, false accusations and the like.

[Citation needed]

Holy shit, does he actually think that therapists don’t know how divorce affects men?

Yep, cause no therapist has ever been divorced. No way any of us could know what that’s like. Seriously, how fucking delusional can you be? It’s like he’s setting his followers up to fail, telling them to never see a therapist so they’ll never find out he’s lying to them about it.

Ugh. It’s so fucking predatory I’m even more disgusted than usual.

A story from the blog tells, in Paul’s words, the suicide of a man who killed himself and his girlfriend because she was cheating on him (the man also tried to kill her lover but he survived). I’m not sure how to paraphrase the way Elam wrote the piece but it is not how you and I might see the situation.

Cheating is wrong and awful and heartbreaking for the one being cheated upon, but Elam COMPLETELY ignores that ‘Johnny’ MURDERED SOMEONE. Cheating doesn’t deserve death! But Paul being Paul, he rants against a “gynocentric” system that is “driving” men to do such things. That women too, drive men to do such things.

Two excerpts:

79% of all suicides are men. Yet all this has been rewritten with misandric ink. It has been revised by scholars who tell us men are bad, by psychologists whose main field of work seems to be recommending divorce, complete with male scapegoat, as a cure all for women for whatever petty dissatisfactions they feel about their mates. And it has been inculcated into the consciousness of our family law system, driving men to despair and despondency on levels never before seen in history.

We need Dads to teach their sons, not “how to treat a woman,” but how to hold their own with them. We don’t need to teach them to “take care of their woman,” but to only accept one who demonstrates the character and integrity to be trusted, from the start.

And we need to teach them how rare that is in modern life. More than anything else, we need to teach them how to let women go, and watch them as they grow up to make sure they can do it. And we need Dads to role model that, in their own families with their own wives. In other words, we need to do a lot of things that we are not doing.

I know men have struggles. Male suicide is terrible. But yet again, Elam’s only ‘solution’ to their suffering is MGTOW. That’s all it ever is.