Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That and the “Alpha Male” garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn’t about people.

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      1 year ago

      I think that one is finally starting to die off, aside from the last gasps of a man in prison. It takes a while for real science to filter through to common knowledge, and I’m constantly seeing the corrections about wolves and alpha status as flawed thinking.

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        1 year ago

        I think it also got tied into the incel movement and became a toxic phrase. Even if you didn’t know the actual science, would you want to call yourself an “alpha male” if it made people think you were an incel?