This week, Antoine Beau, from the Science and Health department of L’Express, explains to you why the concept of alpha males relayed by masculinist groups results from a bad scientific interpretation.
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The team: Mathias Penguilly (presentation), Léa Bertrand (writing), Miléna Rossi (editing), Jules Krot (directing)
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Mathias Penguilly: Alpha males are the dominant ones in the kingdom animal, but some also use it to talk about humans. Antoine Beau, from the Science and Health department of L’Express, will explain everything to us. So Antoine, who are those who claim this term to speak, not of animals, but of Men?
Antoine Beau: Well all kinds of people, because the term has entered popular imagination, but at the moment, those who are most talked about are the masculinists. According to these gentlemen, who fight against feminism on social networks, all men should be alpha males, that is to say dominant, virile, aggressive, determined, and intimidating. That would be the natural order of things. On one side there would be the “alphas”, proud, powerful, authoritarian. And then the rest: women, children. Men who are not “alphas” because they are too nice, too accommodating, would be failures, aberrations.
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