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<![endif] Armed and Dangerous .admired-social #branding #head-wrapper Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Home Search #nav-menu2 ← Previous Next → #nav-single Posted on 2011-03-05 by Eric Raymond .entry-meta .entry-header There’s been some discussion in response to my post on A natural contemplates game on the meaning of the term “alpha male” as it applies to humans. In comments, I had this to say as a definition: As I use “alpha”, it simply means someone who is equipped for leadership roles by psychology and temperament. You can tell you are one if your experience of life frequently includes being sucked into leadership vacuums. It’s not about having some sort of dark desire to dominate people, though of course there’s a subset of alphas that has that. In the PUA context, “alpha” has the additional overlapping mean...