"Alpha male!" Why the hell am I hearing this all over?
I am genuinely curious as to when and how this "alpha male" goofiness bobbed up out of the internetty breeding vats.
I pay more attention than I probably should as to idiotic far-right obsessions, and I hadn't noticed the "alpha male" goobertude until it popped up (hah!) in regards to the last debate.
But now "alpha male" is all over the fucking place.
Here you have even the professionally stuffy Exalted Boohoo of the Claremont Review of the Unread Maunderings of Fringe but Excessively Tweedy Twerps burbling about "alpha male" shite.
I do track this shite -- when did "alpha male" become a thing?
MAS. Pondering, this Charles Kesler Corner Crap is worth a closer look, as it is The Shit.
From the top.
Like bearbaiting, our presidential debates are getting to be bad for the bear and bad for the audience.
Holy shit bearbaiting jokes. BEARBAITING JOKES. "Like bearbaiting"! Bearbaiting!
Last night’s exchange diminished the contenders, who having called each other liars (did they use the L-word? perhaps not, but they emptied the thesaurus looking for synonyms), knaves, and twerps for 90 minutes, would under the old, old rules have promptly settled on a time for their duel. But under the new rules it’s only dishonorable to be called a liar if you lose the election.
It's too bad we can't settle issues of fact by looking at facts, we can't just shoot each other. Also, "knaves." This is the 21st century. And that has girls in it!
The most feminine, chatty, and compassionate format of all, the Oprah-inspired, roving-microphoned, sadly misnamed “town hall,” has suddenly become a boxing ring.
Alpha males must girl box! Like bears! But girl bears!
On Tuesday night, the circumstances invited a strange alternation between boyish assertiveness and feminist empathy — the one more natural, the other more phony, but both unhealthy for candidates and audience alike.
Feel the pain of shouty doe-eyes!
In short, the format encouraged anything but gentlemanship and statesmanship. Could one imagine Ronald Reagan circling, taunting, and emoting like the unfortunate Romney and Obama? And yet we are selecting someone to fill Reagan’s shoes, not to mention several greater men’s.
That ought to be sufficient to make the point.
Actually, I'll just post that shit again:
In short, the format encouraged anything but gentlemanship and statesmanship. Could one imagine Ronald Reagan circling, taunting, and emoting like the unfortunate Romney and Obama? And yet we are selecting someone to fill Reagan’s shoes, not to mention several greater men’s.
Sometimes I think, gosh, the femininst critique has just gone too far! And then... well, I read the foregoing.