According to this conception of the sociosexual hierarchy:
Alpha - Strong, charismatic natural leader with high status
Beta - Right hand of the alpha, enforcer in a chain of command, relatively high status
Delta - Mediocre, regular guy, rank-and-file role, what most people imagine "betas" to be
Gamma - Socially awkward misfit intellectual and idealist who believes himself to deserve higher status than what he actually has
Omega - Loser and reject of the sociosexual hierarchy, often a blackpilled incel
https://theadultman.com/love-and-lust/s ... hierarchy/
Fortunately, according to the author, these categories merely reflect general tendencies and nothing is set in stone. Mobility between categories is possible through lifestyle changes and conscious effort.
Now, when I was reading through the gamma male profile (I had never even heard of a "gamma male" before), I immediately thought of our fervent and outspoken traditionalist forum member @Outcast9428 who, in my observation, seems to have a preponderance of gamma male traits. This might account for his characteristic behavioral patterns. Some people here have accused Outcast of being a "beta" (I understand that in the RedPill and MGTOW movements "beta" has become a general pejorative for men who are perceived as weak and unmasculine), but I disagree with such an assessment; I believe that Outcast much more closely fits the category of gamma male.
Here is a concise definition of the gamma male from the same website cited above:
Now, before we continue, I would like to make it clear that I am not writing this post with the intention to insult or disparage Outcast. Even though we have some strong points of disagreement concerning his brand of traditionalism and the most desirable form of society and I even doubt the purity of his motives to some degree due to my own skeptical nature, I don't take any of it personally. Besides, Outcast recently harshly accused me of advocating for hood nigga masculinity and didn't pull any punches. So I will take the liberty of doing the same in my analysis of his personality and motives. As far as I'm concerned, it's fair game.What is a gamma male? According to Vox Day’s Socio Sexual Hierarchy, gamma males are intellectual, highly romantic, ideologically driven men who hold a lower-status position in the social dominance hierarchy—though they desire to be leaders and are envious of the rank and privilege that comes natural to the alphas and betas.
Without further ado, let me outline the major traits of the gamma male (quoted from theadultman.com) and analyze to what degree Outcast's known behaviors and characteristics correspond to them.
https://theadultman.com/love-and-lust/gamma-male/
Outcast is undoubtedly intelligent and admits that he's a bit of a nerd. Even though I rarely agree with him, I recognize that he is more than capable of writing out coherent arguments and expressing himself well. Intellect is definitely his strong point in contrast to his lack of physical development and primal masculinity. I don't know what field of expertise Outcast has but he's mentioned that he graduated from college and seems to read a lot.1. They’re Highly Intelligent
The main strength of the gamma male is his intelligence.
Gammas tend to be experts in their chosen fields of focus.
In fact, most ‘nerds’ who are highly effective at one or two specific skills would tend to fall into the gamma category.
Outcast certainly does come across as a kind and empathic person when he's not angrily calling us "degenerates" on the forum for having sex with multiple women. He's a vegetarian and strongly cares about animal welfare and even rejects the Old Testament for its perverse Jew god's demand for sickening holocausts and other forms of animal cruelty. I personally believe that you can generally tell how good of a person somebody is by observing how they treat animals.2. They’re Kind and Empathetic
Another positive gamma male trait is kindness.
They are good at treating people well, and are also good at picking up on how other people feel.
Unfortunately, they often go too far with this—and many gamma males suffer from nice guy syndrome.
And guess what? Women aren’t too fond of nice guys.
Being a nice guy is a two-edged sword for the gamma. He tends to have good friendships, but suffers on the sexual marketplace.
Gamma males are also highly sensitive to criticism and praise. They LOVE being praised—and are highly sensitive to the criticisms of others. This stems from their lack of self-confidence, and the fact that they rely on others for validation.
Unfortunately, Outcast does indeed seem to suffer from nice guy syndrome. He gives far too much weight to moral goodness (or at least his own interpretation thereof) as though it were the be-all end-all in life and doesn't seem to understand that most women find excessive niceness boring and prefer a guy to have some slightly roguish traits even if they don't approach the level of degenerate thugdom. Of course, Outcast will argue that any kind of roguishness will lead to degenerate thugdom no matter how slight since to him almost everything outside of his own Ned-Flandersesque nice guy paradigm of ethical conduct is to be regarded as degeneracy (even things like playfully spanking a girl's big round ass ). Nuance is usually lost on him when it comes to ethics and conduct.
This sounds like Outcast all over. He ideally wants one woman for life in a strictly monogamous marriage and seems to be deeply into all of the romantic paraphernalia of rom-coms, or in his case, anime!3. They’re Hopeless Romantics
Gamma males have a really hard time attracting women.
They tend not to be in the best physical shape. They’re not usually objectively ‘sexy’ by society’s standards. And they also have a hard time understanding women.
Because of this, gamma males are especially prone to ‘hopeless romantic’ ideas—the stuff of rom-coms and romantic fairy tales.
They’re big on grand romantic gestures.
The guy who got down on one knee, offering up a rose in a grand gesture to ask a girl to the dance, only to be turned down and told that she ‘didn’t want to ruin the friendship…’ That guy was probably a gamma male.
Outcast certainly pedestalizes and hyper-romanticizes women - well, only Asian women . He views Asian women as some kind of traditionalistically selected, master race of women without whorish tendencies and basically whose shit don't stink and who are a match made in heaven for tradcon nerdy guys like himself, and he usually has the purported statistics to back it up (in an Alex Jones voice: "I've got the documents!"). I really hope for his own sake that he never gets seriously fcuked over by an Asian woman and subjected to the worst kind of disillusionment.4. They Believe That the Depth of Their Love Should Hold Value to the Women They Pedestalize
Since gamma males tend to hyper-romanticize and pedestalize women, they operate with a warped sense of how attraction and reciprocal attraction should work.
They tend to believe that the more they love a woman, the more likely she should be to love him back.
This comes from the fantasy of the gamma believing that his affection for the woman he pines after is worth more than the affection of an alpha or a beta. He sees his affection for her as being real and pure.
He believes that he conceptualizes her as a whole person—not just a sex object.
But this stands in stark contrast to reality—and serves as the primary reason for why women are so turned off by gamma men.
This self-perceived hyper-inflation of the value of the gamma’s romantic feelings toward the woman also makes him feel entitled to her love and affection in return.
Since his affection is so valuable and worth so much, she literally lacks intelligence if she doesn’t reciprocate (at least, this is what the gamma believes).
The gamma is jealous and envious of how alphas, betas, and even sigmas are able to pull high-value women with surprisingly little effort—and this materializes into a sort of resentment.
This resentment may be aimed at alphas, betas, sigmas, the woman who scorned the gamma, or maybe even all women in general.
This makes the gamma even less desirable to women, and has the potential to set off a negative cycle of rejection, bitterness, resentment, and low-value that can repeat itself ad nauseam.
Given his extreme romantic tendencies, Outcast probably does believe that his own supposedly purer love is worth more than the regular less romantic guy's and indeed he often elevates love as his highest ideal in his passionate defenses of traditionalism, but with Outcast it is more his commitment to traditional conservative values that he believes should entitle him to high-quality women. In his mind, those women who don't find his brand of tradcon masculinity attractive and who instead prefer other kinds of men such as stereotypical alphas and men with primal masculinity are somehow "immoral" and "degenerate". So are the men to whom these women are attracted. Only Outcast's way is "moral". Everything else is wrong and people are just too corrupt to realize it.
Outcast also greatly inflates the value of intelligence (because that's a trait that he does possess) and even wrote on at least one occasion that he believes that men with higher salaries should be entitled to the pick of the best women in his own idealized Japanese-style beta provider society. He also hates that men with other qualities such as physique and primal masculinity (qualities that he doesn't have) are able to attract women with more ease than an intelligent high-earning nerd can. I explained to Outcast in that thread that working harder than others at a job entitles one to a higher salary (or at least that's how it should be in a free market economy) but not automatically to women's affection. That's not how sexual attraction works. There are other factors too. But Outcast seems to want to reduce male sexual selection to earnings and professional status much to the detriment of everything else (other than ideological commitment to his own brand of traditionalism).5. They Struggle to Succeed on the Dating Marketplace
Gamma males struggle on the sexual marketplace for a few different reasons.
They lack the status and power of the alpha. They lack the ‘mystery’ of the sigma.
They’re intelligent, which is appealing to some women. But women are usually quite put off by the entitled attitude of the gamma. The gamma sees himself as being higher-value than he actually is, and believes that he’s entitled to more than his lot in life simply because he’s intelligent—and this is an attitude that can easily be projected onto the women in the gamma’s dating circles.
This shows up as a massive red flag to high value women, who avoid the gamma like the plague.
I've called out Outcast about this before and suspect this to be his true motive. Outcast is obviously not satisfied with his position in the sociosexual hierarchy and believes that he deserves to occupy a much higher position due to his intelligence, romantic purity, commitment to traditional values, and purported moral rectitude. He seems to envy the privileged status of masculine alphas who do occupy the higher rungs of the hierarchy and who are desired by a lot of women, and clearly believes that the hierarchy itself is flawed. Moreover, Outcast obviously fancies himself as some sort of enlightened prophet of traditionalism who knows better than everyone else and whose idea of a medieval traditionalist theocracy would fix everything that's wrong with sex and dating if only the unwashed masses were smart enough to listen. Men who don't follow his monogamous philosophy are dangerous degenerates and reprobates who are endangering the moral fabric of civilization (although he seems to make an exception for @WilliamSmith who is a nice, pleasant womanizer ).6. They Adopt “Secret King” Delusions of Grandeur
One of the most interesting attributes of the gamma male is the manifestation of what’s called the Gamma Delusion Bubble, aka the Secret King Complex, characterized by ‘delusions of grandeur’ that help the gamma to deal with the reality of his lower status within the hierarchy.
To put it simply, gammas often create a false narrative and reality around themselves to help them feel better about being constantly rejected by women and overlooked/dismissed by other men.
They may see themselves as the ‘true’ alphas of the group—except that the group is too ‘unintelligent’ to realize the scope of their genius.
They may see themselves as ‘martyrs’ to the cause they believe in—and believe that the constant rejection and disregard they experience makes them ‘morally superior’ to those who have a better experience within the hierarchy.
They may even go as far as to believe that anyone who is having a ‘good experience’ on the dating marketplace must be a useless ‘player’ or ‘slut,’ thereby cementing their belief that they’re actually better than the people who are more successful than them.
I know that Outcast has gone off on me on at least two separate occasions. He once told me that he knows all of my "evil tricks" when I got into a little bit of online fisticuffs with him and disagreed with him about some aspect of traditionalism and even let me know that he has "backbone" and won't be submissive. But that was on the internet. Maybe he's not so conflictive in real life. In fact, he once wrote that a dumb inbred Florida hick outright talked shit about him in front of him and his Asian girlfriend but he didn't say anything back to the guy and felt pissed off about it afterwards and wanted his dad to teach him some fighting techniques. So maybe he could be conflict avoidant in line with his gamma male personality.7. They’re Conflict Avoidant
One of the most fundamental differences between an alpha male and a gamma male is the fact that gammas are conflict avoidant.
Conflict makes them uncomfortable, so they usually resort to using passive aggression and ‘jabs’ to strike back when they feel that they’ve been slighted or wronged.
I know that if some asshole talked shit in front of me and a Latina girlfriend of mine, I wouldn't think twice about blowing out his ACL with a well-placed Muay Thai kick, slamming his head onto the pavement with a beautiful wrestling throw or busting his elbow with an armbar! Maybe I really am just a crazy, sociopathic r-selected degenerate! I blame it on the primal masculinity and the anabolic steroids which I've still not taken yet!
I have no idea when it comes to this one. Is Outcast the type to play it safe or does he have a more risk-taking and adventurous side that we don't know about?8. They’re Failure Avoidant
Another difference between alphas and gammas is that gammas are extremely hesitant to put themselves at risk, and have a very vivid fear of failure.
As a result, gammas tend not to score many big ‘wins’ in life. This mechanism keeps them from succeeding/advancing with women, in business, in the workplace, and in their social circles.
No risk, no reward.
Outcast doesn't seem to lie about the type of man who he is, but his rigid ideological view of the world requires a lot of creative use of the imagination to put it lightly. I don't think that he's the most honest person about reality. Outcast has however accused me of lying, exaggerating or putting on a persona when my testimony of my own experiences hasn't reflected his own preconceptions about how things are supposed to be.9. They Lie to Themselves
One fundamental attribute of the gamma is that they aren’t content with their place in the hierarchy. So they lie to themselves about the reality of their position to feel better about it, instead of trying to fix it.
Gammas may lie to themselves about being a true alpha, a true sigma, that all women who reject them are ‘sluts’ or ‘prudes’ and not worth their time, etc. Whatever they need to tell themselves to mask the shame they feel at not being more successful.
While Outcast isn't a complete incel (he's a gamma, not an omega), he does seem quite clueless with women. I think that he would definitely benefit from a good one-on-one session with @WilliamSmith on the topic of dating advice and over a nice sixpack of beers.10. They Fail to Understand Women
As a dating coach, I can see how the intellectual gammas tend to be more linear thinkers than most men. This would account for why flirting, engagement, connection, and sexual escalation with women would be so problematic for them.
Sexual escalation, connection, and flirting are subtle games of nuance. There’s more that is spoken ‘between the lines’ than is actually spoken verbally.
This kind of ‘unspoken language’ would definitely be more difficult for linear-thinkers (like gammas) to decode.
Just don't let William drink too much though because his inner Mel Gibson might come out and he'll begin to educate you on the many evils of the Jews and the NWO globohomo agenda!
Anyway, this has been my analysis of Outcast's personality and theorized status as a gamma male. What do you think, Outcast? Do you think that you fit the description of a gamma male? What do others think?
@WilliamSmith, @MarcosZeitola, @Tsar, @Pixel--Dude, et alia