Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omfga

I can get on board with the whole Alpha/Beta thing that's been so prevalent in the PUA/Manosphere for years. It's a got a solid basis in zoology I believe, and even without the theory, it's something I've anecdotally observed throughout my life, believe the documentaries I've watched on primate behaviour, and seen first hand in dogs.It's a theory, that even if the finer details are disputed amongst academics and scientists, the broad brush strokes I've no problem with.These days though, we've got all shades of bullshit discussed on this topic, dreaming up new designations, levels and hierarchies of male society. Not so much to help anyone's understanding of the whole thing, but more to create a new pompous 'rank' the authors of said bullshittery can slot themselves into, and wear the worthless epaulettes, like decoration on the uniform of a pre-war cinema doorman.If you can't be classically Alpha, because even with several hundred blog articles arguing your case, and playing and judge and jury on everyone else, you made the mistake of actually meeting people on-world, instead of staying safely online, and thus even by Manosphere standards you realise you can't continue to bang that gong and claim the tune's a symphony, you can just designate yourself as something equally as lofty.So, if the current theory doesn't fit, make up your own one; take an existing theory, so at least you can start from some foundation of credibility, and just shamelessly expand it. You don't need science or peer reviewed academic studies, anymore than you need reality when picking up your power ups in a video game.Once upon a time that sort of hobby, fantasy game playing, was the preserve of the Dungeons & Dragons crowd, but we've moved on, and you don't need to meet up in pubs and clubs, just hook your Xbox up, forget the dice and imagination, you can play out all this shit in glorious 3D and play it as any make-believe character you want to create.No wonder video games are so popular in the PUA/Manosphere.Shit just got seriousHonest to Christ, all the mental masturbation over Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Sigma/Omega and whatever else the fuck, or R vs K selection, or greater Beta, lesser Alpha... what is that? Collecting coins and power-up points?! Except back on-world no one gives a shit. A mate of mine used to play some online game, don't know which one, but told me he was a Colonel or Brigadier or something in this game's ranking system, and that only 'x' amount of thousand people in thewholeworld were at that level. Which was apparently an achievement, except that his "commanding officer" was twelve years old. Yeah, excuse me if I don't stand to attention and salute.Like this masculine hierarchy bullshit. I'm not disputing that it doesn't exist, because it does, but it exists in a much more black&white, simplistic realm than the beautifully shaded, all colours of the rainbow, everyone-gets-a-medal new hierarchy that some people in the Manosphere have embraced.I feel it's important to say "some people in the Manosphere," because if you speak about this pseudo-science outwith that world it sounds as crazy as any SJW's multi-gender chart.It's not something I give a great deal of conscious thought to, or worry about. If I'm in any situation where a guy feels he has to 'out-Alpha' me it'll probably take me a while to notice unless he's being outright aggressive or something like that. Otherwise I probably won't notice and it'll bounce off me. 'Alpha framing' (or is that micro-Alpha aggressions?!) I'll most likely just interpret as the boorish behaviour of a selfish, loud mouthed prick. I won't be sitting there feeling "value tapped" or my "status" has been lowered. And if I need to sit in a particular chair at the table, or stand in a certain position whilst at the bar with my group, it's a pretty tenuous "status" in the first place! You know the old saying that those who care don't matter, and those that matter don't care? Anyone with any real rank (or just isn't a neurotic mess), doesn't give a shit for these theatrics.If you obsess about this sort of stuff, then stop. The only people who'll notice will be other PUA theory aficionados; they're the only people you'll pickup with those button combos.