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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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TranscriptA tweet saying "Six Male Personalities Of Modern Men Explained: (which one are you?) Read the thread. " It has a picture of some of these, the first one is "alpha male".It has a cartoonish picture of a guy in a suit. The next is "Beta male". This shows a person wearing a blazer, with a sneer on their face. The one after this is "Delta Male". This shows a guy in a plain white t-shirt. Next is a "Gamma male" It shows a guy in a red-and-black striped tshirt, with long hair. The next one is an "Omega Male" It shows a person with short black hair, glasses and suspenders." The last one is a "Sigma male" It shows a guy with sunglasses and a leather jacket."

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This alpha sigma omega bs is just astrology for men

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

/ the new Meyers-Briggs Personality Test. It's literally an ego toy, something you use to enhance the narrative that you tell yourself about yourself.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

MBPT is the corporate astrology

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So what is OCEAN? Bare-eye astronomy?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago

Well, Star Ocean is a decent JRPG series

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Worse yet, this is just a way to try to hierarchically categorize yourself as being simultaneously:

  1. part of an in-group,
  2. better than others
  3. a paragon of your sex

It's just so pitifully shallow. Like, if you're going to stroke your own ego, at least do it with something unique to yourself. Define yourself by the people, experiences and things with which you surround yourself. Define yourself by the things you do. Literally anything that would make you more than a penis with wrapping paper and a voice-recorded greeting card saying how awesome the penis is.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Truly the manosphere made manifest.

[–] TacoNot@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

ego toy

Thanks for the new term!