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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

DO NOT BRING OMEGAVERSE TO LEMMY PLEASE THIS IS MY SAFE SPACE ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

STOOOOOPP THIS IS CURSED KNOWLEDGE ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

DO BRING OMEGAVERSE TO LEMMY PLEASE THIS IS MY SAFE SPACE ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I am lost. Can someone spoonfeed me the meme?

[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

Not sure, but I think the bad wolf study is the one that established the "alpha" bullshit. I have no idea about the erotica but the thing about bioessentialism is mocking the belief that humans and animals have fixed unchangeable characteristics... Such that a "weak" male will always be so, or some such crap.

Idk really

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The bad wolf study was the Alpha/Beta relationship of wolf packs that is wildly regarded as untrue.

The deranged erotica is people applying Alpha/Beta dynamics to random characters for the sake of creating fanfiction. Iโ€™m talking Mpreg and other deranged ramblings of sleep deprived tumblr fans.

Source: Stuck my dick in crazy back in 2010

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

mpreg was a term I did not want to remember.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unwanted mpregnancy/vore and Ridley Scott directing

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There's an emoji for it ๐Ÿซƒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Source checks out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Omegaverse is the big domino

Here ya go

https://youtu.be/zhWWcWtAUoY?si=BlYtm5xbtKDSq_0s

alpha werewolf that can impregnate other cismale werewolf is just one of the tropes

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Actual wolf packs are a family. One pair of adults plus their children. Until those are old enough, then they leave and search for a partner and own territory.

All the stuff you read about pack alphas, all the sociological pseudo-science about alpha behavior derived from it... that's all based on a one bullshit study about a large group of wolves artificially intoduced to a new area, that in no way behaved like wolves naturally do.

Basically the equivalent of putting a few dozen teen-age boys on an isolated island then studying their behavior to understand human society.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you implying that humans aren't prone to worshipping idols, tribalism, and interpersonal violence?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny enough, not in the cynical, depressing way William Goulding postulated and many of us were forced to read in English class. :D

https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-island-william-golding-humankind-human-nature-rutger-bregman-1503204

It's nice when humanity isn't the tragically disgusting thing we're often forcefully told it is. (Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

seriously, the more you actually read up about human history and biology the more you see that we're just.. kinda fucking great, when we're not constantly torturing ourselves and trying to justify it like stockholm syndrome'd abuse victims.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was gonna say wasn't Lord of the Flies literally a critique of society?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but a satirical one, not one to be taken literally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suppose it's also worth mentioning that time some kids actually got stranded on an island and ended up developing a functional community.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

yeah, as it turns out humans are actually inherently mutualistic and when faced with adversity will reliably organize quite well.

because, like, that's a pretty handy feature to evolve as a social species.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Structure/meme format: like with the "dominoes", one seemingly small thing can lead to much bigger things happening

Context: the 1970 book "The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species" popularized the hypothesis of the alpha, beta, and omega wolf, which has birthed all sorts of toxic and stupid bullshit that has harmed many humans, pets (especially dogs), and other animals.

The author, David Mech, has since tried to get the publisher to stop selling his erroneous book and basically dedicated most of his career to educating people on how wrong his most influential work was.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it's about the alpha male (guessing from the post title and nothing else)

edit: I think it has nothing to do with it actually

edit 2: was actually correct

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's everything to do with it. Read some of the other replies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

alpha wolf and momma bear

leaders of the drive-thru tribe

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

something tells me the deranged erotica would exist anyways, iirc it's something marx predicted as a consequence of capitalism, seriously.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

The alpha/beta wolf notion doesn't even make much of a sense, considering wolves tend to be loners but only make packs when they need to hunt.