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cayenne-pepper flavor-blasted genderpol hot take 

"Alpha male" and "Beta male" are both social genders. They both describe people with an XY chromosome pair who lack traditionally "masculine" traits.

If the alt-right really believed Gender Is Biology And That's That, everybody with an XY pair would be accorded the exact same "status," because as we all know, Gender Is Stored In The Balls. But instead, they have a whole system of descriptors for people whose social gender and biological sex don't match up by their standards.

They were never sincere about not believing gender is a cultural construct. And they clearly think it's useful to have a spectrum of descriptors for gender variance. They obviously believe people exist who don't act like the stereotype of their sex.

Their only real objection was the lack of innate stigma in our own categories. They merely insist that any term for it should recapitulate a hierarchy with "real men" on top. They just don't want people who don't fit their ideals to have any escape route from that hierarchy.

In summary, my name is Rezeya Montecore-St-Hobbes, and I believe Stefan Molyneux and Ben Shapiro should be publicly fed to jungle cats while we all laugh at them. Thank you for your time.

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