Right wingers freak out over Hollywood Reporter cover celebrating the triumph of the beta male

[smirkymonkey]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/right-wingers-freak-hollywood-reporter-cover-celebrating-triumph-beta-male/?comments=disqus



The Hollywood Reporter this week published a cover story that celebrates “the triumph of the beta male”—prompting right wing ideologues to blame “modern feminism” for everything from “virtue signaling on the Internet” to a decrease in worldwide amphibian populations

In its cover story, HBO’s “Silicon Valley” star Zach Woods championed the “tender quality” he sees in his fellow cast mates. “I’m among my tribe of, like, beta males,” Woods told the Hollywood Reporter.

That story and the Hollywood Reporter’s cover photo—which features four of the stars of “Silicon Valley” with their hands in each other’s pockets—infuriated right wingers like InfoWars’ Alex Jones.

“They’re saying if you act like a domesticated, twisted version of an effeminate creature, somehow you’re going to end up in dominant positions in the corporate world,” Jones fumed on a YouTube video posted to his conspiracy website InfoWars.

Jones went on to lament “globalists” like Jeff Bezos, as well as plastic, which he claims is causing a “synthetic transformation that has been engineered over the males.”

[Achilleaze]

1. Gamma Males the happening thing

not that whiney snowflake republican alphatraitors would have a clue...

[Iggo]

2. This stuff is fascinating (and horrifying) to witness....

....from the vantage point of a man who doesn't hate women.

If liking women and not wanting to blow shit up makes me a beta male, then I guess I'm a beta male.

[smirkymonkey]

6. You are fine. It's the men who have to divide the world up into "alpha" and "beta" that

are the problem. We don't do that. It's something that insecure men do to reassure themselves of their masculinity. Men who are secure in their masculinity never give it a second thought.

[Iggo]

9. Yeah, I try to just be a decent human being. Fuck that alpha beta shit.

[IluvPitties]

3. What the heck is a beta male anyway?

All these labels to box people in make me nuts.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Any male who isn't an asshole.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I would assume

that since an Alpha Male is supposedly a strong take-charge leader type, that a Beta Male is the opposite? Somebody that is weak and lets others take charge and submits to authority?

[smirkymonkey]

10. I think those labels are bullshit. People are people and anyone who needs to

put men in boxes like that obviously has a problem with his own masculinity.

[NewJeffCT]

12. I don't think "Alpha" is exclusive to men

though I believe Alpha Male is more commonly used than Alpha Female with humans. I think the original term is derived from wolf packs where there is typically an "alpha" wolf that is the pack leader.

I don't really know if there is an actual "beta" term in sociology (or whatever field it is) - I think "beta male" and "cuck" are RW terms meant to describe weak men.

[Initech]

5. Infowars can eat a steaming bag of rancid dog feces.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Have you ever seen a more pathetic excuse for a man than Alex Jones?

I rest my case. If there is such a thing as "Alpha" and "Beta" , he is "Zeta".

Interesting tidbit: "After high school, Jones briefly attended Austin Community College but dropped out."

He dropped out of a fucking community college!

No wonder he hates educated liberals!

[Initech]

11. I can imagine the teachers at ACC popping the champagne when he left.

Can you imagine that asshole as a college student? He would fail a test and claim that his teachers are using the deep state to conspire against him. Imagine him in a history class!

[NewJeffCT]

13. I think Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet

so, Alpha is the "top" and Omega would be the last. Beta, I believe, is second. Not sure why "beta" is used as synonymous with weak.

[mreilly]

14. I have not...

... and I wish people would stop posting pictures of this bloated hemorrhoid.

[MineralMan]

15. That old saying: "Nice guys finish last" is

celebrated by most women when they compare their experiences, at least in one area.

[Deb]

16. Do they swim alone in tiny pools

to prevent cannibalism? Sounds about right.

[blogslut]

19. I got that!

[GulfCoast66]

17. My friends joke I am a liberal redneck

I figured out a long time ago the whole alpha male thing is nothing but an excuse for men to act like assholes. Especially where women are concerned.

[smirkymonkey]

18. As soon as I hear a man talking about "alphas" and "betas" I immediately know that he's

a dick and should be avoided at all costs. Mature adult human beings don't buy into that nonsense.