Ageism. You'd be surprised the number agree with this sentiment. You may not like it...but I actually think his list is pretty honest.
(trying to bring the thread back on topic)
@Incognitus: With all the examples of great trolling available online, this is what people come up with? Trolls have just got to do better in 2011. Claiming that black women are whores in bed who expect little is so...first decade of the 2000s...even colonial. Whichever jealous racist wrote that really needs to huddle with the rest and come up with something more provocative in the future.
I've read Roissy's blogs and find them both depressing and offensive with a bit of truth thrown in to keep his audience lapping up his diatribe. Here is what he thinks of Black women. WHOA at the comments from White men regarding Black women.
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/its-easy-to-identify-a-slut/
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/interracial-loving/
Ageism. You'd be surprised the number agree with this sentiment. You may not like it...but I actually think his list is pretty honest.
But that gives us black women a leg up, because no one ever knows how old we are until we tell 'em!
White girls on the other hand...after about 25, I tend to think they're older than what they actually are...
I was recently stopped by a bar attendant who told me I had to be 21 to enter a certain part of the restaurant. 
I'm like, Hmm...let's see how long I can ride this train.Beta. The fact that he operates with one persona in some fields of his life, and another in his personal life. Beta.
Strong, successful, ambitious, loving his woman and family to pieces Beta.
I think Trumpy is an Alpha; there is no compromising with him. My SO works in commercial real estate and says that Trump's reputation is interesting because he is so demanding of his vendors/partners but within the industry he's also known for cheap construction and poor foundational quality (he does the bare minimum to slap "luxury" on his properties). And he tends to marry Alpha women - Ivana is a pitbull, Melania supposedly is no better and word on the street is Ivanka is equally bullish.
Its so laughable because I'm like....do you, be you, dont change for me PLEASE (gosh thats so unattractive). But they feel like they gotta act mysterious, macho, or domineering for me to remain interested. EXAMPLES: 
so in order to tame me, he tries to require after work check-ins, making sure I never compliment a man, and even tried to grab me up a lil once. Oh NO!!! He got dropped a week later.
So, I'd first say that alpha and beta are purely abstractions. I don't have any loyalty to the concept of "alpha" or "beta", so I don't think it's offensive to say that one is less than or greater than the other. Besides, I see a lot more room for "alpha" to manifest itself in different ways than other people might. I would say, though, that regarding the internal v. external distinction, to pay attention to external influences doesn't mean that a person doesn't have morals, it means that they will often make decisions based on what other people want and expect. That doesn't mean that they'll do something evil because someone asks them to!
But the basics to me is that they are leaders of their group, but they don't necessarily keep that position all their lives. So I think of Alpha as a position or status that is changeable, while personality types are more the core of who you are. That's how I see it, but we all see the world differently . . .
Are you asking if only one individual can be alpha? Or are you asking can anyone be an alpha? For the first, not one individual in the whole world, no. But one or two in a given group, yes. For the second question, well, not anyone can be an alpha because it takes a certain type to become one.
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Of course we can't take all of this for humans.
erplexed.
Yesss.... I'm a die hard introvert and often time people will miscontrue it. Even at work, i'm friendly, talkative to people, but when I tell them I'm introverted they are shocked.. they'll say something to the effect of "oh, but you're not shy, etc"... I get this all the time from people when I tell them I'm an introvert. They think introverts are socially awkward. Shy people have a deep desire to want to speak to others and express themselves but are too shy to do so ... I sometimes simply do NOT have desire to do so.
I'm all for people asserting themselves, but I don't want every discussion to turn into a battle for "control" where dissension is seen as an attack on his "manhood", no thanks, no ma'am. Where some seek "weakness", I see a willingness to compromise and comfort with acknowledging his own weaknesses... I'd choose the beta male hands DOWN.
. As has been mentioned a thousand times over, there is a sliding scale. Men can def be Betas with Alpha tendencies.
