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My younger brother keeps saying he is an Alpha male and bad mouths who he thinks are Beta. Can some one please explain to me what the hell is going on? (self.explainlikeimfive)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you want advice on how to handle this: ask questions. Ask them calmly and without any judgment. Be genuinely curious.

"What makes him a 'beta male?'"

"What characteristics do you admire most in 'alpha males?'"

"What characteristics do you think you have?"

"Where'd you learn about all this?"

Don't ask them in rapid fire, pepper a question in here and there over time.

[–] Delphia 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Alternatively refer to him only as "Cuck" until he stops acting like a fuckwit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

No cuck shaming please.

[–] Bytemeister 1 points 4 hours ago

Cucks are kinda into that though...

[–] Delphia 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What are they gonna do about it? Get someone to defend their kinks better than they can while they jerk off in the corner?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dunno, but your fixation on defending the use of a kink as an insult soulds pretty assholeish. You do you.

[–] Delphia 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, in fairness the second comment was a dumb joke. But I fight stupid bigots with stupid bigotry. Its more entertaining for me than trying logic and reason because as we have seen time and time again from Trumpists it plain doesnt fucking work. Fuck them, if I have to be mad listening to their dribble, Im gonna make them madder.

Someone constantly spouting off about being an Alpha will hate a dismissive "shut up cuck" and being walked off on so much more than actually respecting their stance by arguing it with logic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I also hate bigots, it's just that engaging in hate against non-bigots to go against bigots is unnecessary when there's tons of other ways to go against bigots.

I never said "don't insult the bigot pro alpha asshole". Please do, but please don't kink shame <3