View Single Post
Old 2011-01-20, 17:35   Link #1989
Darknemo2000
Senior Member
 
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39
Send a message via AIM to Darknemo2000
Quote:
Originally Posted by Waven View Post
Point is that you can't apply the terms alpha/beta male to human beings. They refer specifically to animals only so if you don't want to reduce the story's characters to their natural drives and biological traits (or whatever you call that) you might want to refrain from using terms that could come right out of social darwinism.

You might call me a nitpicker here but I like to think that I'm already out of the cave
Last time I checked humans were still animals (mammals) actually.
Darknemo2000 is offline   Reply With Quote