Helping men become more alpha
The NY Times on the Baton Rouge shooter.
As investigators worked, details about [Gavin] Long, 29, of Kansas City, Mo., began to emerge. Court records filed in Missouri showed that Mr. Long filed a name-change notice with the Jackson County recorder’s office, seeking to change his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra and saying he was a member of an indigenous tribe. A spokeswoman for the court said Mr. Long never filed a petition with the court, so the document was not legally binding.
Using that name, Mr. Long billed himself online as a self-help author and life coach who could help men become more “alpha.”
Like the gunman who killed five police officers more than a week ago in Dallas, Mr. Long had served abroad in the military.
Men who see themselves as “alpha,” and who see “alpha” maleness as a valuable thing, and who have spent time in the military.
Internet domain search tools show that Mr. Long registered a website called convoswithcosmo.club in April. Another website, registered privately, convoswithcosmo.com, is filled with blog posts and podcasts that match Mr. Long’s biography, including his stint in the military and educational career. The site promotes three self-help books and offers life coaching sessions for $119 an hour.
The podcasts, which began in April, are more focused toward helping men become more authoritative to impress women.
And to subordinate them. That’s what alpha males do, after all – no alpha male is going to be pussywhipped. Those are the only two choices: either the male dominates, or he’s pussywhipped. Equality isn’t a thing.
Why would an alpha male want to create more alpha males? Shouldn’t he want to make all other men beta males or lower?
Sshhh! Get away with your logic there…
Well he didn’t so much want to make them alpha males as want them to give him money for doing whatever he claimed he was going to do.
Which makes him the alpha alpha male (in his eyes) – you know, first amongst equals (spit).
I think we’d all be better off if these guys had never learned the term ‘alpha male’, or if they realized that it doesn’t always mean the one who acts like the biggest asshole.
Dave Futrelle wrote about him yesterday. Long was, of course, a misogynist: “Don’t get a woman if you can’t keep her in check. Alpha Males Dont Leave A Bitch Un-Checked!”
http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/07/17/suspect-in-baton-rouge-cop-killings-dont-get-a-woman-if-you-cant-keep-her-in-check/
::eyeroll:: That’s not even how it works in nature.
Alpha males don’t dominate females. They dominate other males and protect territory. Female power is a separate line of power. In some species, the combined power of alpha females is greater than the power of an alpha male and can overthrow him, selecting a new male. In others, the alpha male and female are a pair of equals mated for life, as with wolves, who have a couple and their kids/ maybe grandkids.
In some specs, the males and females spend most of their time in separate groups. Which seems to be what the MRAs could drive us to.
‘Sovereign Citizen’ craziness (look it up they’re beyond belief). Fake ‘native’ identification. ‘Life Coaching’ for weight loss and fitness. Nation of Islam racism.
Those are just the ones that had surfaced by Monday. Now the ‘alfalfa male’ surfaces. American crackpottery is the great ecumenical, bipartisan, success story these days. Fox/Chomsky, KKK/NOI, all singing kumbaya as they march civilization off a cliff.