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>we'll see an "alpha male" problem where a handful of males will be desired. The betas will drop out and more importantly many women will be turned off by the c
by ceol 15y ago
>we'll see an "alpha male" problem where a handful of males will be desired. The betas will drop out and more importantly many women will be turned off by the competition for a few men.
I've never heard of this "alpha male problem"; I've only heard stories of there being too few women. Could any frequenter of singles events elaborate on this?
- jseliger 15y agoI can't speak to the alpha male problem in the online dating market, but lots of people writing about sexual dynamics and marketplaces have noticed it (see, for a popular account, Neil Strauss's The Game; in academic land, The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality doesn't use the term "alpha male" but describes how many women frequently glom onto a subset of males and pursue them). Think about it this way: there were probably a handful of guys at your high school or college (probably athletes, although they might've just been unusually social or skilled in some other field) who women disproportionately sought. Most of us have seen this on some level. They're the alpha males and that, in a nutshell, is the alpha male problem.
- sokoloff 15y agoThere were also a handful of women at my high school and again at my college who men disproportionately sought. I'm not sure I see that this is a one-way issue.