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That people (usually males) believe this fanfiction also applies to human society and change their behaviours to be perceived as alpha
by namanyayg 3y ago
That people (usually males) believe this fanfiction also applies to human society and change their behaviours to be perceived as alpha
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoI don’t think many people would base their behaviour off wolves, parrots, gudgeons, mollusks or whatnot. That’s such a random species to choose. If anything, I would conjecture that the causality is actually in reverse: the ideas of pecking orders and dominance hierarchies were well-established in the scientific communities among zoologists and social psychologists (and even in common parlance), so people who studied wolves didn’t question external validity of their studies on captive wolves.
- the_af 3y agoThe wolf is not a random animal. It's a big predator associated in popular culture with aggression and dominance, e.g "a wolf in sheep's clothes", "the wolf of wall street", etc.
- wryoak 3y agoBoth of those describe deceivers (though the latter may not originally have), not aggressors or dominators. Given humanity’s long history of antagonism towards wolves, it is a very strange animal after which to choose to model one’s own behavior.