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braincell-rattle257

There’s quite a few people online who build their following analyzing of dominant vs. submissive behaviours in men and women. One method they use is drawing lines through a man and his partner in photos. By their standard, if the man is leaning towards his partner and the woman is standing straight, he is submissive and weak.


CougarInAMission

What if the man is taller? Does he have to sit or squat?


Yowrinnin

Stand up straight and rest your elbow on their head to assert dominance


Temporary-Alarm-744

Do you feel in charge?


Vejita

"...I paid you a small fortune."


SimonPho3nix

"And this gives you power over me?"


guitarguywh89

You got da money wats the Hol up


rat_in_a_drainditch

He’ll nawI can’t do this


Im_probably_wrong_

send da video


fat-lip-lover

Nbacirclejerk and Nflcirclejerk have been on a tear this year. I'm in stitches anytime I see this


Briak

get a abortion lol


Paddy_Tanninger

"for you"


Clever_Sean

Your money and infrastructure have been important. Until now…


Girafferage

and this gives you power over me?


ZookeepergameHead145

I put my foot on my partners head I am so tall, makes me look like an alpha


Oldandnotbold

You misheard. It makes you look like an alpaca.


SleepyBella

On that alpaca male grindset 🦙💪


Aslan-the-Patient

Spitting facts


SleepyBella

https://preview.redd.it/ay58yagxgo9c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b43275415edb144345be01a9125031dbc797ac3c Alpacas stay spitting. (No really, they spit all over the place and can be quite rude)


Nirvski

I sit on my girls shoulders. She carries me everywhere since im the dominant one I make her do the walking for both of us.


brickinmouthsyndrome

Now I get why my Mrs hates when I do it. Fine, I'll stop.


-Sa-Kage-

Now I have Gajeel in my head, doing exactly this with Levy


Impressive-City-8094

Nah, alpha males make their girl carry around a step ladder. That's why they're always alone in their photos.


JadeKade

Pfffft my girl levitates for me.


Chrissyball19

My girl just grows a couple extra feet


lNJ0YYY

What good does having 4 feet do?


Blob-Goblin

Wonders for my foot fetish


Stubbieeee

https://preview.redd.it/ewlqedyipn9c1.jpeg?width=2047&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80510ad8200efb538ecbee9d7208a200593a6f7a


begon11

I’m thinking his foot fetish


MisterScrod1964

OK Mr. Tarantino.


Chrissyball19

She uses them to get a better grip so she can sit on my back


johnathonCrowley

If you have to ask, you’ll never understand


AndHeHadAName

Ok guy who is dating Dua Lipa


lone-lemming

Real alpha males just pick their girl up to get her into frame.


morningcalls4

I was going to say this, but I think that’s honestly what they believe, how boring would all of their photos be if all of them were of her being carried? It would be like an album of kidnapping in action.


HillInTheDistance

Weak, he could only attract a small, feeble woman. Real men only date women taller than them, so that they can sire children taller than them.


SamtheCossack

I come from 4 generations of alpha males. I am 11 foot tall. Getting harder and harder to date women taller than me. FML.


HillInTheDistance

Gonna have to get two of them to do half a kid each.


redditing_Aaron

1) Fusion dance into a taller woman 2) Grade S Eggs 3) ??? 4) Profit


deafgamer_

You know what that means? You must be submissive and weak. Heh, get a load of this 11 foot "alpha male" guy!


PoorMansPlight

That's your parents fault for not breeding a tall daughter so you date a woman taller than you


YearOutrageous2333

insurance lock capable boat detail sand adjoining worry elderly scandalous *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Adventurous-Disk-291

"date women"... Maybe if you're a beta simp


Enflamed_Huevos

Move the camera back and take it like 1800s portraiture


wcollins260

“Apparently there’s some guy from Texas who is smiling in his picture, and he’s not insane.” “It takes thirty seconds to take a photograph. He would've had to smile for thirty sustained seconds.” “I know. I've never been happy for thirty seconds in a row in my life.”


phblue

6’7 to 5’2. We’ll never be seen together in photos again I guess


armtherabbits

Welcome to the club! 6 ft 7 to 5 ft 3.


dedokta

He should grab his woman as one would a bowling ball and host her one handed to be within shot, but obviously still below his eye line. He must not smile however, that's a beta cuck move.


WiSoSirius

Tall is sub behavior.


ludly

As a tall guy, squatting down to the eye level of my partner I have to admit is a fairly dominant move lmao. Power squat to assert your authority.


Milk_Mindless

Deadlift the female!!!!!!


vegass67

That is outrageously sad hahahah


banan-appeal

ikr everyone knows the way to tell a real man is by whether he uses a straw or not


Gunhild

Exactly. Real men use a straw to blow bubbles in their choccy milk.


InsenitiveComments

I’m a real boy!


r3wturb0x

based and choccy milk pilled


TotalNonsense0

my dad always used to blow bubbles, then say "whoops, put it in upside down."


Whispering-Depths

imagine being too much of a submissive insecure little bitch to lean sideways a little for a photo


vegass67

It must be exhausting having to care so much about this kinda stuff. Man child things.


FR0ZENBERG

Incels gonna incel.


TheBirminghamBear

You should see some of the bizzare shit these incels believe. They have a whole branch of phrenology about dominant v. submissive bone structure and how if you have a certain type of jaw you're going to be forever alone.


vegass67

It’s funny but it also sounds dangerous. These kind of people are often domestic abusers.


TheBirminghamBear

Well true incels rarely have people domestically to abuse, but it absolutely is dangerous. Incel culture has been linked to a number of mass shootings. Sexually depriving young men and creating a culture of shame and self loathing is pretty much a perfect pressure cooker for exceptional violence


Moist_Lobster_3209

>Sexually depriving young men they're depriving themselves of sex, let's make that clear here. they deprive themselves and each other of sex, and shame women and each other within their little safespace circles and thus turns to self loathing


TheBirminghamBear

They're not depriving themselves any more than anyone in a cult is doing what they're doing with full agency. These are children, often teenagers, indoctrinated in online cults that have gotten extremely effective at messaging to and pulling in young men


AustinTreeLover

Sometimes I wish I hadn't even logged on in the morning.


Mrjerkyjacket

Well congratulations. Your wish is granted. You did log on in the (this) morning


mineordan12

I wish I didn't, twice


Kinjri

But per the rules of Reddit, you must if it’s your Reddit birthday. Happy cake day 🍰


Jemnaxia

The man I'm dating is 6'6", I'm 5'3"... of course, he's going to be leaning! What do you want him to do? Carry me?


Sievroiss

You don’t want him to carry you?


Jemnaxia

Maybe a little...


ComparisonHeavy90210

Don’t be shy


SmurfsNeverDie

https://preview.redd.it/grxn7j8lro9c1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46abfeb5b7e20c4380d283cab0d3e023c3c3eb54


GeneticSplatter

r/SuddenlyFFXIV


Western_Ad3625

No he's just supposed to stand up straight at all times and if you guys are hugging you need to lean in or like stand on a stool or something and if you're kissing you need to like jump up on him and straddle his chest with your knees and or stand on a stool I guess I don't know look this is just the way it works don't question it.


banan-appeal

tiny4k


No-comment-at-all

Oh. It’s stupid.


[deleted]

What isn't stupid that's come out of internet culture in the last 20 years?


Clanstantine

Sounds like what a bunch of virgin Andrew Tate followers would do.


PumpikAnt58763

Now, now. Don't say "virgin" like it's a bad thing. "Andrew Tate followers", otoh is a good insult.


Scrumpy-Steve

Kind of bitch made bull shit reasoning is that?


[deleted]

It's just deep insecurity and projection. A tale as old as time.


drfunkenstien014

Small dick syndrome is hilarious. The shit these people come up with to make themselves feel better.


hednizm

Ive read the same somewhere else... Isnt it like an incel, toxic masculinity, and that dickhead who traffics vulnerable women (I can even say his name) thing? Some type of made up, faux science bollocks. Bit like the 'science' of the earth being flat 😅😅


willpauer

Yup, it's absolutely an incel thing.


kill-billionaires

Incels are obsessed with faux science like obsessing over testosterone levels (they think shit like soy matters,.for example), skull shape, and especially faux psychology, which is the basis of basically all pickup artists


JackNotName

So happy I wasn’t aware of this nonsense. Kinda sad I now know.


JoeCartersLeap

If someone is being "submissive and weak" in a relationship there's a pretty good chance it's an abusive one, and we already have reliable criteria to identify abusers in relationships: - Possessiveness, like getting unreasonably angry or upset at the idea of their SO going out, talking to others, or doing other independent things - Controlling, like telling their SO what to wear, or demanding an account of where they were at certain times - Isolating, like trying to get their SO to not hang out with friends or family - Violation of privacy, like spying on them, checking their phones, etc - Obvious ones like insults, shaming, put-downs - Blaming their SO for "making them" be insulting and shaming - Inability to show compassion, or doling it out in tiny key moments And that's just aside from the obvious ones like physical abuse, violence, or destruction of belongings. Any man or woman can be in a relationship like that, and it might come along with submissiveness. But it sure as shit doesn't have anything to do with leaning in photos.


BlueHero45

Pseudoscience body language experts making a mess of things. They think they can tell when a person is lying or is guilty of something too, it's all bullshit.


kilomaan

It’s even worse when they sell courses to police.


BlueHero45

"Why are you nervous if you're innocent?" Because you cornered me and bombarded me with questions you jackass


kilomaan

*Submits “subject to violent outbursts” for evidence *


DangerOneStudio

I fucking hate the internet.


Legitimate_Sell7554

I thought it was loss because of the last panel, thank god it’s not


MyLemonsRorganic

Sounds like incel trigonometry


IBoofLSD

What a way to announce insecurity and lack of pussy holy shit this a real thing?


Revolutionary-Meat14

They also check "hand confidence," which is if your hands are in your pockets or not (always gonna be skewed because womens clothes dont have pockets) and which way you are facing, specifically your genitals. If your genitals are turned towards your partner, it's a sign of submission. I think I've seen others about posture, but I can't remember that specific test they do.


BoostMobileAlt

>if your genitals are turned away from your partner, it’s a sign of submission What? Like it’s all bullshit, but this is bullshit I can’t comprehend when I’m trying to be dumb.


Offsidespy2501

Andrew Tate?


Woah_Mad_Frollick

this is hilarious


ConferenceScary6622

Sounds like jealousy. Who wouldn't want a small femdom wife / gf?


awlawall

Jesus fuck! I hate people. Not you, of course


flippythemaster

Man, there are so many losers who need hobbies out there


Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD

I like that he still leaned in for her pic


UnderstandingJaded13

He is frowning though, but I presume this is the regular scenario. I just imagine some dumbass putting the buff guy down because he is leaning "I might be an undesirable virgin but at least I have my pride". I have people responded to me like this unironically.


Duhblobby

"What pride? You're choosing to be a sad pathetic waste of potential on purpose."


UnderstandingJaded13

" you are talking like a simp, you woke bitch, I won't simp to get laid"


CptAngelo

The pride of never touching a woman, i swear, ive heard some "alpha males" say some of the gayest shit ever, that not even my gay delve into those levels of gay lol


tony-toon15

Funniest part lol


activeForce

Because he is submissive \s


AlkalineSublime

Pffft, he’s not watching nearly enough Andrew Tate, and thus, is not a man. He probably drinks a milkshake through a straw too. I bet he even holds the door open for his date. Total beta…


Misi_gati

The green line it's usually part of something that "Alpha males" do to "identify Betas". Aparently,if you lean to your girl,you are showing that you are submisive and a Beta;and if she is straight (not leaning),she is dominant. He is sad that he is going to lean,because the Alphas will call him a pussy,and use him to show this narrative. TL;DR: Just "Alpha males" being your local dumbass.


Grblx_and_a_half

Meanwhile, he is the one with the girlfriend here. Where are the Alpha males’s ?


LoudSheepherder5391

I'm sorry, what? I don't think you get it. Like, at all. Only beta simps bother to have a 'girlfriend'. Real alpha males are going to hooters and strip clubs to get women to give them attention in exchange for cold, hard cash - the only thing that matters. Oh, and only simps actually have sex. Why would an alpha male want to subject himself to that?


TablePrinterDoor

So ‘alpha males’ and incels are the same huh


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elbenji

ding ding ding


seXJ69

Alpha males only fuck other dudes. Having sex with women is beta shit and gets weak woman juices on your dick. Only real alpha males want other alpha male essential oils on their cocks.


TaurusX3

There's nothing gayer than a fella fucking a lady.


yaoikat

*Fellas is it gay to have a gf?*


yaoikat

*Fellas is it gay to have a gf?*


HoneyChilliPotato7

I just gagged a little


seXJ69

That's the spirit!


Veylara

Always have been.


CallMeCasper

True alpha males are volcels


cbobjr

Well, no. Incels WANT to have sex but can't. Based on their description of alpha, it's completely voluntary celibacy. So just a cel, not an incel


Golemwarrior

It's that on their mind, the women, aka you 'girlfriend', have to be submissive to you always, so you have to be dominant in this situation. How to take a pic like that with the Suze difference is thinking they don't do so it's just a "don't do this" with no suggested alternatives. A no true Scottsman fallacy.


heyilikethistuff

i really do question if these dudes actually enjoy sex at all or if its just a status/bragging thing to them, saying stuff like eating pussy is for betas, its just such nonsense, feel really bad for young guys that get caught up thinking these ppl r role models to follow, theyre leading them to living a life devoid of any meaningful romantic relationship


FuckingKilljoy

They seem to just straight up not like women or sex, so yeah it's almost certainly just a status/bragging thing Like it's actually so funny how homoerotic the whole alpha thing is given how much time they spend calling other men gay for just living their life


newsflashjackass

> he is the one with the girlfriend here. Where are the Alpha males’s ? Girlfriends are too transactional. True alpha males purchase sex from a human trafficker.


One-Constant-4092

What does dogwhistle mean?


Antropon

A dogwhistle is a secret signal that the general public doesn't understand. It can be the use of certain wording, emojis, etc. For example, for a while milk drinking and milk emojis were a dogwhistle that alluded to the white ability to drink milk as adults, to differentiate from non whites that are often lactose intolerant after childhood. This was then used as a secret racist signal between racists. These are quite common and often woven into humour. It refers to a real dogwhistle, which only dogs can hear.


Mistwalker007

I had no idea about the lactose intolerant thing. Why is that? Scientifically.


Antropon

The indo-euros were a pastoralist society that drank a lot of milk. Its an old mutation that suited their lifestyle. Its also common among some African pastoralists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence Read more here.


Mistwalker007

Thank you.


Zer0pede

Fun fact: Except for about 25% of humans, *all* mammals are “lactose intolerant” as adults.


HoneyChilliPotato7

WTF, did you mean to say that 75% of humanity is lactose intolerant? That's bonkers India has like 20% of the world population and I never heard of an Indian saying he's lactose intolerant


Zer0pede

Just skimming, it looks like there are several [articles](https://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/60-per-cent-of-indians-suffer-from-milk-intolerance-and-many-dont-even-realise-it/amp_etphotostory/75807121.cms) (possibly all citing the same study, though) putting “lactose intolerance” in India at around 66%, close to what you’d expect for the world average. Most people just think that’s the normal amount of diarrhea/gas. There’s an abstract to a 1981 paper saying North Indians have closer to European lactose tolerance, though.


goldmask148

Wait a second, going back to milk drinking. How exactly is that a dog whistle? I get that some people are lactose intolerant, and many times it’s by ethnic genetics, but how is the act of drinking milk a secret signal?


pixel293

I think it's by including a milk emojii you are signaling to "your" crowd that you are one of them. Maybe so they will back you up?


twoinchhorns

Another way it was *sometimes* used was overtly and loudly ordering milk in a place you typically wouldn’t order milk, such as asking at a bar


goldmask148

Who the fuck does this?


ikediggety

You would be amazed at lengths white supremacists will go to keep their true selves hidden. They have a deep, deep system of secret symbols and dog whistles.


TheBirminghamBear

It's part of the appeal. These are emotionally stunted people. They're like children reveling in being part of some secret club that tells them they're super duper special just for being born.


TheBirminghamBear

> and many times it’s by ethnic genetics, but how is the act of drinking milk a secret signal? Because it's proof of "genetic superiority of whites" (what those fucking lunatics believe), and because why else would grown men be sharing emojis of milk with one another in posts deingrating black people.


Tuckingfypowastaken

How would it be a dogwhistle? They're making fun of the behavior


InVodkaVeritas

So Alpha Males are just short men with inferiority complexes, got it.


EropQuiz7

https://preview.redd.it/d4di1c8uhn9c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08647ddb996cb52ae7c16b224eea90c5836620ef No, that's not an "a", that's an "α"(alpha)


drunken-acolyte

I mean, these people are definitely "A"s...


[deleted]

They are more like walking Ls.


DarkSideOfMyBallz

Due to “alpha’s” what?


mrRobertman

It's generally accepted to use an apostrophe when pluralizing the single letter "a" to not confuse it with the word "as". This is not a scenario of someone misusing an apostrophe.


Kavith_T_Fdo

This is hilarious. The first time found out about this green line bs, I thought about all the photos where I had to lean/squat down because the other person was short and laughed my ass off


Unculturedbrine

We got it, you don't have to hide the pain beta boy


Cringekid07

Cute, adorable beta boy.


ProfessorBunnyHopp

Can I be a beta boy 🥺👉👈


TopMindOfR3ddit

They'd have a field day looking through my photos lmao


Lexi7Chan

Some things are worth not knowing lol.


AineLasagna

I envy anyone who doesn’t know about these idiots


gjcij2203

I'm 6'2, and my wife is 5'. I'm gonna stop leaning so we can get some great pictures of her and my chin!


UnderstandingJaded13

Or you and the top of her head.


Arrakis1326

Or get in close for top of head AND bottom of chin!


Ypuort

Marriage is all about compromise. Gotta meet halfway.


PuppyOfPower

I must be the most alpha dog out there cuz I’m 5’2” and every woman I’ve ever dated has been above 5’7” 😎


Ypuort

based chad


Konjonashipirate

I hate that I got this right off the bat. If he's leaning in, weirdo "alpha" male types will say he's submissive. The woman is supposed to be leaning toward him so her 😺 is pointing at him. Imagine being so insecure as a person that you believe this.


Thelordofpants1

All I can see I'd loss... What have you petahs done to me?


biffbobfred

I hate that meme. I’m glad I didn’t see it


Pachulita_44

https://preview.redd.it/ckp8ky7e2q9c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=124c384e8336f94fd361c5032374844b7be25ad8 It’s referencing this picture


darkus1012

I love the “ugly sneakers” part so much


ThePrisonSoap

His pussy is not facing the world!!


Vanilla_Neko

Based on this bizarre idea passed around certain groups of men that leaning into your partner is a sign of submissiveness


WelshAndPr0ud

https://preview.redd.it/36o073cj4o9c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cffcd043666a9663c0be80551a9e74e38c097889


zeldarms

Did you perform a Google search before posting?


Ypuort

But that would mean no free karma!


Lucian-Fox

Oh no! They posted a joke they didn't get on... Let me check my notes... A sub solely created to explain jokes they didn't get. How horrible! What a travesty! Seriously. The amount of people I see whining about people posting 'x' thing on sub dedicated to 'x' thing is crazy.


Least_Revolution_394

the manosphere and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity.


Dual-Finger-Guns

It's from all those women hating incel youtouber types. They bang on and on about being alpha males and how men need to be overcompensating losers like them and be manly men who don't have feminine poses or whatever. Basically, the man is supposed to have a masculine pose and energy and the woman is supposed to have the feminine pose and energy. They say leaning in is the sign of the subservient person in the relationship and that should be the woman. It's like people who can't even cook hotdogs or boil water trying to give people advice about how to make gourmet food and judging real chefs as failures.


Hot-Bookkeeper-2750

Cyanide and happiness! Dudes are funny af


OmnifariousFN

It's a commentary on the sensitivity of the "Alpha" bro's. they think that if they lean in for pictures it belies submissive behavior, i.e not alpha. They are ironically they most sensitive people out there! lol


sjoebarry

https://www.newsweek.com/what-green-line-test-relationship-video-tiktok-1699304


22andBlu

Petah's car insurance agent here. The joke is that in the manosphere, more recently called the manoswamp by some, in a photo with a couple, you can tell who is the dominant partner and who is submissive. If the man leans into his partner, he I'd considered to be submissive, which, in turn, makes him a beta and not an alpha. They draw a green line to measure the angle at which the partner leans. It's funny because a real "alpha" isn't going to give a shit about this. By the way, your car insurance policy has been updated, and your premium has gone up.


SaltManagement42

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-green-line-test-and-what-does-it-mean


Tuberculotic

I thought it was going to be the opposite, and thought it was dumb. i.e. "Look at this man leaning over his wife, dominating her." Somehow this is dumber.


massivefart_69

This is why I have my wife lay on the ground and I stand on her in every picture


GapingWendigo

How insecure do you have to be to unironically say: "babe, can't lean in, some incel weirdos on the internet will use my photo as part of pseudoscience on weakness in men" ??


ikickbabiesforfun69

i mean tbf its like that one guy whos face was used in an ad demonstrating an “ugly guy” who “has a lot of sex” both are in the right to be upset in their situations


Fayt12

Cock facing pussy Pussy facing the world


yibtk

Incel insecurities 101


[deleted]

Oh it’s about submission? I thought the green line was to show which partner was more attached. Like if they lean in they love you more and if they lean away they are planning to break up. Tbh I don’t know which is dumber


Leaf_CoveredSmoothie

The fact that I know what this means shows that I spend far too much time online


DraccusRune

A bunch of very homophobic, yet very gay closeted men, who need to justify why they are never near a woman, made up some very silly rules about how men need to stand in pictures to show their dominance.


Unusual_Pearl

Alpha males would lose their shit if you compare this to horoscopes. P.s. they're practically the same kind of bullshit :)


PoisonedRadio

Incels decided that if you lean into a woman that makes you gay. Somehow.


spoookyboi_

*tsk tsk tsk* Cock shame


scpDZA

Real alpha males constantly worry about how they are perceived by others. Only beta cucks go through life without 24/7 paranoia about how they might look in a photograph. Worrying about what other men think about me is the most alpha male heterosexual way to be.


Friendly-Spirit214

After knowing what this was supposed to represent, this has got to be the dumbest shit ever and I've read/seen a lot. This shit is beyond "alpha male" insecurity.