• Ooops@feddit.org
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      7 days ago

      Actual wolf packs are a family. One pair of adults plus their children. Until those are old enough, then they leave and search for a partner and own territory.

      All the stuff you read about pack alphas, all the sociological pseudo-science about alpha behavior derived from it… that’s all based on a one bullshit study about a large group of wolves artificially intoduced to a new area, that in no way behaved like wolves naturally do.

      Basically the equivalent of putting a few dozen teen-age boys on an isolated island then studying their behavior to understand human society.

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      7 days ago

      The bad wolf study was the Alpha/Beta relationship of wolf packs that is wildly regarded as untrue.

      The deranged erotica is people applying Alpha/Beta dynamics to random characters for the sake of creating fanfiction. I’m talking Mpreg and other deranged ramblings of sleep deprived tumblr fans.

      Source: Stuck my dick in crazy back in 2010

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      7 days ago

      Not sure, but I think the bad wolf study is the one that established the “alpha” bullshit. I have no idea about the erotica but the thing about bioessentialism is mocking the belief that humans and animals have fixed unchangeable characteristics… Such that a “weak” male will always be so, or some such crap.

      Idk really