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Saturday 15 October 2011
Alpha-Maledom
The modus operandi in humans
(but not in animals) that maintains the need for scapegoats, and the loss of consent to prove how right it is, particularly in cases of rape.
Generally alpha males form the apex of a hierarchy. In animals this means 'Top dog', 'Top gorilla', etc, and a hierarchy stretching down from the top. In the wild some snubbed animals leave one pack to form another, in which they are higher in the new hierarchy. Humans set themseleves up as alphas, and set up hierarchies, men, in particular, form hierarchies, for being so competitive.
Men are very competitive. If a male, for losing to another male could leave easily, then fine, but frequently the male loser in a battle can't make exits from it until the anger from others that he experiences weighs him down, utterly. This makes him literally like an old testament scapegoat, where before the Day of Atonement a priest will intone the sins of Israel for the year in the presence of a goat, and the goat will be sent into the away, to persish loaded with the sins of Israel spoken in its presence.
I have amended the text a litte. Wikipedia is wonderful....
Dear Bearz,
ReplyDeleteDespite the fact that I employed all my cognitive faculties to decipher what do you mean, I failed.
Perhaps, little guidance ?
Generally alpha males form the apex of a hierarchy. In animals this means 'Top dog', 'Top gorilla', etc, and a hierarchy stretching down from the top. In the wild some snubbed animals leave one pack to form another, in which they are higher in the new hierarchy. Humans set themseleves up as alphas, and set up hierarchies, men, in particular, form hierarchies, for being so competitive.
ReplyDeleteMen are very competitive. If a male, for losing to another male could leave easily, then fine, but frequently the male loser in a battle can't make exits from it until the anger from others that he experiences weighs him down, utterly. This makes him literally like an old testament scapegoat, where before the Day of Atonement a priest will intone the sins of Israel for the year in the presence of a goat, and the goat will be sent into the away, to persish loaded with the sins of Israel spoken in its presence.
I have amended the text a litte. Wikipedia is wonderful....