Why is it that every time I'm writing an article that means something to me,

I end up feeling like Lamex may see at the end of Fargo where the police

attract him down to his motel room and he's like, y'all, just a sack climbing out the window.

And that's how I relate to editors.

Welcome to Your Wrong About. The show where without even meaning to, we find ourselves

repeatedly asking straight men, what happened to you and why do you continue to be like this?

Is that the universal tagline? Is that the theme for every episode now?

Well, I just listened to the Godfather episode and that's definitely about that.

And I think our episodes tend to be about the foibles of humanity more broadly,

but since we're talking about American life, politics and history,

we do get back to the reactive woundedness of the straight male population quite often.

I can hear the clap emojis between all of the words you're saying.

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm a writer for the Neur Republic and the believer in Buzzfeed.

And today we're talking about alpha males.

Oh God. What is the first thing that you think of?

Like, what do you see on your little homeland red string board when that phrase pops into your head?

So until you told me this a couple of months ago, I had no idea that this was like even up for dispute.

I thought the situation was simply that like wolf packs, I guess bear packs, I don't know if bears are in packs.

Fluths.

Yeah, like gorillas and chimpanzees and stuff.

There's like an alpha male. There's like one dude who's at the top of the packing order

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