layman wrote:God this is turning into an MRA thread ..
Indeed. Regarding the thing about 'alpha male' and 'beta male' thing, it is somewhat regrettably my fault that those terms became entrenched on PoFo, since I brought those terms into the forum in 2011. The MRAs around here have since then literally
inverted the meanings that I had assigned to them.
For example, I spent a good deal of time calling places like United Arab Emirates, "a nation of ugly beta males", because they've had to rig up a whole system of oppression just to get a way of interacting with women. The United Arab Emirates is like playing the game in cheat-mode, since if women can't refuse the advances of man, then was the game really being played at all? Men's Rights Advocates don't see it that way though, they think that playing on cheat-mode with no refusal is a sign of 'strength'. Which is insane, but MRAs do tend to be pretty insane.
SE23, as far as I can judge, is not an MRA, since his points rarely overlap with their camp.