What actually is an “alpha male”?
The internet version is terribly fake.
The red pill dogma that is being pushed is not actually making men stronger at all and it is definitely not making women safer. Instead of creating healthier relationships or societies, it is actually doing the complete opposite.
Red pill ideology teaches emotional suppression, domination, and hierarchy taken as a given from the mens side (….??) not so much responsibility, emotional and nervous system regulation, or leadership. It frames women as adversaries, emotions as weakness, and vulnerability as something to be conquered or hidden. This worldview does not just damage intimacy, it actively makes women live in more danger and men live in deeper isolation.
We can see this clearly when we look at the data.
Globally and in the United States, men are overwhelmingly the ones dying by homicide. Around 75–80% of homicide victims are male. At the same time, men also make up roughly 90% of homicide perpetrators. For the part of humanity who are not supposedly “so emotional”, men are both the primary victims and the primary actors in lethal violence. (Emotions run ragged). And I do not believe this is because men are inherently violent, yet because our culture has failed men emotionally.
When emotions are not allowed to be expressed, they do not disappear. They compress into so many areas of the body physically and energetically and harden. They then at some point come out sideways as rage, over the top risk-taking, numbness, and explosions. A culture that tells men their feelings are dangerous or punishable creates exactly the volatility it claims to be fearing and trying to control.
Women pay the price for this too. While men are more likely to be killed overall, women are disproportionately killed by intimate partners. When men are taught that they do not need to take responsibility for their emotional world, that dominance is masculinity and emotional literacy is weakness, women are placed in unsafe relational dynamics. Red pill culture actively reinforces this risk.
And addiction tells the same story.
Men have significantly higher rates of substance use disorders than women. Alcohol, drugs, and compulsive behaviours become socially acceptable outlets for emotions men were never taught to feel, name, or regulate. Again, this is not a failing in our biology, this is a societal emotional neglect playing out on a massive scale.
Incarceration mirrors this breakdown with over 90% of the global prison population being male. Prisons are filled with men who were never taught how to be with fear, grief, shame, or anger in healthy ways. Instead of addressing this as a collective failure of emotional education, society doubles down on punishment and control.
And the red pill ideology pretends this is “natural male behaviour.”
My loves,….It is not.
Biologically, men and women are almost identical. Around 98–99% of our DNA is the same. We share the same emotional architecture in the brain: the same limbic systems, the same capacity for empathy, bonding, grief, and love. There is no scientific basis for the idea that men are less emotional than women.
What differs is nurture.
Girls are encouraged to express, seek connection, and talk about feelings. Boys are taught to suppress, endure, and dominate. By adulthood, we mistake emotional suppression for emotional absence, and then blame women for being “too emotional” while praising men for being “controlled.”
This lie is destroying intimacy between us all.
A man who cannot feel safely is not strong. He is volatile or shut down and will often need to turn to forms of abandonment to escape. A man who cannot take responsibility for his emotions will inevitably place them onto his partner, blaming her for being too sensitive, too needy, too much. This is how women get scapegoated for emotions men were never allowed to have.
The irony is that this red pill ideology pushes an agenda for men to be “men” and get your woman WHEN we are NOT turned on by this exhausting emotional numbness at all.
Women open, trust, and desire men who can lead themselves emotionally. Men who can feel without collapsing, hear emotion without attacking, and take responsibility for what moves through them are safer, more attractive, and more powerful ….not at all weaker.
Real masculinity is not dominance and true strength is regulation.Real alpha energy is emotional self leadership.
When we teach men to suppress who they are and what they feel, instead of integrate, society becomes more violent, more addicted and more incarcerated and resulting in women becoming less safe.
If we want safer women, healthier men, and relationships rooted in trust instead of fear, we must dismantle the lie that emotions make men weak. Emotions make us human and refusing to deal with them is where the danger lies.
The real definition of an alpha male comes from biology and social mammals.In healthy mammal groups (wolves, primates, elephants, humans), an alpha is not the loudest, most aggressive, or most dominant… an alpha is the one who
* is calmest under stress
* regulates the group’s nervous system
* resolves conflict
* protects the vulnerable
* sets boundaries without cruelty
* has emotional self-command
True alpha energy is nervous system mastery baby.
An insecure male tries to dominate others because he is in the belief that is what he needs to do. A real alpha does not need to and people naturally follow him/her because they are stable, grounded, and safe.
This is why women are erotically drawn to men who
* can feel without collapsing
* can hear emotion without defending
* can hold intensity without running or exploding
* can take responsibility for what they feel
That is alpha. This is sexy as all fuck. Not the suppression that shows up as stoicism and definitely not emotional illiteracy. Men and women are emotionally the same species. What differs is not our hearts or systems but the permission we were given to live in them.
Lovers…. every single relationship needs the container to foster emotional intelligence. A place where there is no shaming or blaming. A place where the animal parts of ourselves have a safe place to be heard and soothed. A place for our ego to speak so our higher selves can do the work it came to do….
There is just no more fucking around in the school yard avoiding and hoping. We don’t have time or the energy for that in these times!!! ( jajajjaja )
I have been trained in a system that will up level your relationship and sex life incredibly where BOTH of you have the incredible space to be heard and soothed and this is what brings you two closer and having more sex. Time is not the enemy of little sex, it is all the “stuff” unsaid that sits in between you two that does.
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Always with Pleasure
M
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