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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

He found tate's channel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I say this as a younger brother who was beat up by older siblings. If you are both under 18 and he's a lot smaller than you, slap him. If he thinks he's an "alpha" and you aren't, it might be the only thing that points out that he is just human

After you do this, please please please try to point out his error in thinking. No "alpha" commands any respect and the "alpha" bosses are the ones nobody wants to work for

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"There is no such thing, if you want I can slap you around and prove you're just a normal person if you like?"

Avoids hitting anyone and hopefully gets the point across. If it doesn't... Wouldn't hitting them not get it across anyways?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Just tell him he's fully cuckpilled cause he clearly isn't looksmaxxing.

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

This comment section is either full of top notch satirists or the worst fucking people on Lemmy. I honestly can't tell.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How old is your brother? If he is an early teenager, it is possible that he picked these concepts up from somewhere and will very likely grow out of that thinking all by himself.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lil bitch got hopped up on manosphere podcasts... Likely due to rejection or and poor social skills.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

He is a furry that identify as a wolf. /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

How old is he?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, ask him how many omega males he's fertilised.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If you're really asking what it means, an Alpha is a strong leader. They don't take commands, they give them. If they want something, they take it. They consider themselves superior to the weaker beta males, and feel that it is their duty to lead the betas, or that they are doing them a favor by pushing them to be more like an alpha.

Although, a lot of the time, the people who claim to be alphas have none of the redeeming characteristics, so they just act like entitled assholes.

EDIT. I think because I didn't come out swinging people are assuming I believe any of this shit. I was trying to explain it from the perspective of their brother. I thought they wanted to know what it was about, and just calling people assholes doesn't really explain what THEY believe.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The surest way to guarantee you're a beta is by calling yourself an alpha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

disgusted to see "just hit your brother" so sentimentally popular. Please dont abuse your family members as a method to disabuse them of their indoctrination. how would that work? seems pretty obvious to me it would only reinforce the view that alphas are stronger than others and can get what they want through violence. it's a humorless joke at best and terrible advice at worst. shame on anyone who made the remark, and shame on all those who voted it up.

op, check out fd signifier.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The underline issue is that human evolve to be part of social norms. Use to be a tribe, a country, a sport club. But new generation can be have more options. Associating with alpha male or whatever means he belong to a group who might like his meme or comments.

It could also be due to lack of a man figure they can associate with. So watching documentaries of strong males might help shed light on what the role could look like.

What you want is to balance his only identity or group with other (groups). For example, joining a gym, fishing, be part of musical band …. Whatever he is also into, just to get him out of that only identity he is associating with.

For me I would try to come from telling him being alpha means you can hunt or camp or survive in the wild, then lead to cooking classes or wood working. Something that mentally and physically taxing. I also would watch gordon Ramsay shows and Anthony Bourdain just to crash that image of one way to be an alpha male. You can cook and be an alpha male as the same time type thing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Alpha and beta? I'm released on service pack 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Tell him you aren't interested in hearing about his omegaverse self insert

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Others have given you a lot of info here on what it is your brother is referring to.
But what this is reflecting in your brother is that he has fallen into a pipeline of watching these videos or hanging out with people that watch these videos and had some insecurities that he's dealing with that is making these ideas seem like the answer. It would be a great idea to be supportive of him in whatever other hobbies/activities he has outside of watching those videos and spending time with him. Talk with him about anything other than the content of those videos so that those thoughts aren't even entering his mind. Introduce him to your friends that are also supportive in something other than those videos (you don't mention your ages, so it's unclear if you know the same people). Having supportive people around his activities and hobbies will help him lose some of those insecurities that made him gravitate to those videos.

If that fails, what I've seen others say works is if says he's an alpha male say back "I'm not into that furry stuff, but that's really cool your so open with your sexuality like that, and accepting of others' sexualities like recognizing the beta males"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If that fails, what I’ve seen others say works is if says he’s an alpha male say back “I’m not into that furry stuff, but that’s really cool your so open with your sexuality like that, and accepting of others’ sexualities like recognizing the beta males”

I doubt that actually works to get people off that mindset. It's just a funny twitter joke people have latched onto. Other than that 100% agreed. If he's fallen into this manosphere shit things probably aren't going well for him socially and he probably needs help to get out of it. When I was young I certainly did and was fortunate enough to get into a much better environment after I got out of high school that corrected my mindset (for the most part, there's always a need for self-reflection). While deserved, ridiculing him for these beliefs won't get anywhere other than to make him feel more isolated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Anyone who calls themselves an "alpha" anything is a small dicked nobody.

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