• radix@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “I’m a lone wolf.”

    OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?

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      “I’m an Alpha male”

      Ah, you’re so stressed, scared and disconnected from your community that you resort to intimidation and violence in some desperate grasp at self respect?

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      Lone wolves are usually sick or unwell … and have usually been made to leave the group because they are a threat … and often are desperate and dangerous because they have to survive on their own which is near impossible and they won’t last very long until they can find a group that will accept them.

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    Also male lions spend an absurd portion of the day sleeping, and leave most of the work for the females

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      Feminism has failed in its goal in making me into a house husband who plays vidja all day long while the dishwasher and washing machine do half my work.

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      Actually that’s not true, male lions are usually hunting alone and in dense vegetation. Newer studies show that male lions actually hunt as much prey as female lions! It’s just harder for us to track that.

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    There is a category of Russian memes known as “волчьи мемы” (literally “wolf’s memes”) where you have a picture of a wolf, often distorted, put some cliche edgy text on it, but swap some words to make it into something hilarious.

    Examples

    That who is that is that
    Others are not that

    Entrance is entrance
    and exit is an entrance
    in the other direction

    At home among his own,
    A stranger among strangers

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    Psychologically accurate lion meme: “As a narcissistic wacko I yearn for a strictly hierarchical system, and I deserve to be at the top of it”

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      4 months ago

      You forgot the word fascist. They are also fascists. All these alpha male wanna be’s are all fascists.

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        Yep, the Venn diagram for this would certainly be gloomy. Would also have a decent overlap with the “longing for a zombie apocalypse in which I would totally be the leader everyone obeys”-folks.

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          you want an apocalypse because you want to be a feudal lord
          i want an apocalypse because i want to be part of a tightly-knit local community in a world without rich people governing everything

          we are not the same

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      “Also, I will talk about how great I am but the women will do most of the work.”

      Edit: actually I just learned that the males hunt as well, more than we thought, but it’s unlikely these people know this fact.

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    Maybe not the lions? Unless you think men fighting over harems of women is cooperation.