@adam-l

,The TRP sidebar has a more fluid definition of Alpha and Beta being sets of behaviours which invoke female reactions

Oh does it? It's been a while since I've read everything, but I don't recall seeing such there. I could be wrong, because again, it's been a while.

As far as I know, that originated with Athol Kay, whose "Married Man Sex Life Primer" is one of the essential books in the MRP sidebar.

And yeah, that's how I tend to use them when I use them at all: alpha = attraction/arousal, beta = comfort.

I'm in favor of getting rid of the unnecessary use of Greek letters and just saying the fucking terms "attraction/arousal" and "comfort".

More on this another time, perhaps. I still have stuff from the last few days and weeks on here I've been meaning to respond to and still haven't!

@Typo-MAGAshiv

I'll make a spoiler of my view, which would be enough for long-timers in here:

The notion that "Alpha" is "a type of guy" is a female one: it's essentialist, and has been popular due to an admittedly overrepresentation of far-right thinking in the red pill. (I'm not criticizing it, just stating it as a fact).

The TRP sidebar has a more fluid definition of Alpha and Beta being sets of behaviours which invoke female reactions, which is another, more accurate way to describe them.

I believe Woujo hit bullseye when he connected the Alpha to the leader of the primal tribe. There's a primitive core in the female attraction system that makes them receptive to such a kind of projection. Sadly, there's a remnant of this in men, too, and we see it when men emotionally submit to leaders.

Now, because we live in extended societies and not primal tribes, there are several contexts that have different nstural leaders. The situational Alpha is the only real-life instantiation of an "Alpha", if we exclude the delusional Alpha.

What an AFC needs is not how to "become" Alpha, but rather an actionable way to achieve a state of positive emotions and non-reactiveness, as well as free up their capacity to lead an interaction. RPS wrote about captive audiences, how you go about making your own bubble in which you can be "Alpha", when you don't have the advantage of a 8 or 9 physique.

"Alpha" is a state where System 2 thinking is not invoked. It's being in flow.

Therefore, any man enters and leaves that state, depending on the circumstances.

That's why entering a relationship while being too alpha, usually beckfires. Either you get burned up, or the woman does, trying to pick up after you when things that demand System 2 thinking get left behind.