Acquiring high-value status is not viewed merely as key for success in life, but also for attracting “high-value” women as well.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ken Lay, Mel Gibson, Don Imus—all chest-beating, leader-of-the-pack men, and look what happened to them. The alpha dog doesn't hunt anymore. The new role model is a beta male.

But this whole "alpha" and "beta" rhetoric is trying to convince men otherwise. I have a brother and tons of male friends, so I know a good amount about the beta male and how you guys are supposed ...

That’s what a “sigma male” is supposed to be, and it’s even more bullshit than the alpha/beta/omega business, because instead of being based on an outdated theory of animal behavior, it ...

The terms alpha and beta male are pseudoscientific terms used to push a concept of masculinity as necessarily hierarchical and aggressive. The theory frames the ideal of a man as someone who is ...

Welcome to Beta Male, a new site from New York Media that for the next four weeks will talk about manly kinds of things, only maybe not in the usual manly way. And welcome to Mansplaining, a ...

Beta males are—or can be—the best lovers because they want you to get off too. With men, we tend to “split”—Alpha men are sexy, Beta men are “weak.” ...

"The leader is called the alpha male. Then there may be several rank levels, beta, gamma and so on. But this is not a concept that works for wolves in the wild," she says.