• raoulduke85@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    A lot of women find empathy sexy. The women who only go for alpha males are the ones you usually want to avoid.

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        1 month ago

        To add onto that, the guy that originally published the “alpha male” study spent a lot of time trying to correct public views and publish corrective studies because he discovered the behavior was only in wolves kept in captivity. IIRC.

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        1 month ago

        It’s kind of a thing in certain animals, but not wolves like originally claimed. The certain animals here being mostly primates, so it’s even more applicable.

        That said, the politics of social primates are notoriously complex and many cultures have unique behaviors within the species, so there aren’t really any universal rules particularly among the most social groups.