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Male Behavioural Archetypes

Synopsis : Exploring how the brain creates labels, determining the nuances of male socio-sexual rankings, and realistically defining the term "Sigma Male."

The brain creates labels, classes, and specifications for simplicity - to easily identify people without thinking/spending too much brain power on it.

For the most part, this is beneficial and accurate, however on the flip side this can lead to neurotic mind traps, some of which are fostered from judgmental ignorance. I.E. "What kind of cereal does an alpha eat? And with a metal or plastic spoon? Are alphas allowed to eat cereal at all?" OR He's a jock. He's a nerd. He's a meathead. He's a junkie."

I got red pills for ya, pop deez.

You are not a static, concrete slab. You are a dynamic, fluid entity that can reform themselves into whatever shape desired with enough tenacity.

You are not A alpha, or A beta, or A sigma, rather you have the TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS relative to those classifications, which are subject to change at any time by internal, external, or contextual factors.

The matrix of society uses the tendency to classify against people - it does so by giving the impression that people cannot change, because change is detrimental to the status quo, and the social hierarchy.

Red Pill Vanguard TRPsubmitter once said:

"The harsh reality of the sexual marketplace: either improve your SMV factors or be alone. You don't get to redefine "alpha" as some lone wolf who literally no one likes being around, just as long has he "accepts himself" or some bullshit. And you don't get to demand that women like/fuck you when you obviously are not as good as another more attractive man."

The key phrase being "YOUR SMV factors."

In Red Pill Endorsed contributior "Field Line"s post, Alpha, Beta, Sigma, and the Colors of the Rainbow He lightly touches over how most askTRP questioners are herd animals looking for a new identity to cling to, rather than recognizing and forging their own. We've all seen this phenomena, where lost men are trying to figure out how to be more like James Bond, or how to emulate Tyler Durdan, despite it clearly being spelled out in the rules + top posts that examples from blue pill lensed, idealized, Hollywood fiction are to be discarded as inaccurate representations of human intereaction.

He concludes his post with :

"there's no such thing as a Real Alpha™ because people are much more complicated than idealized models, as much as your Psych 101 professor tries to convince you otherwise, so stop trying to classify yourself."

You aren't A alpha, beta, sigma...

You have the TRAITS AND BEHAVIOURS of an alpha, beta, or sigma.

AND, THESE TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS CAN BE CHANGED, ALTERED, HIDDEN, OR IMPROVED.

This is why you see red pill success stories, like the dependable beta, who (as gaylubeoil likes to say) is high on trait agreeableness, happy to go along with the program, change into an alpha who calls his own shots and have others follow him, or a sigma who gets things done on his own behind the scenes.

Everything exists on a spectrum, and being able to identify where you fit on the spectrum is a crucial part of determining what you need to focus on, to get where you want to go.

(1) Pointed user StoicCrane made this simple statement:

Alpha= Extroverted Masculine Dominant Behavior

Beta=Feminine Submissive Behavior

Sigma= Introverted Masculine Dominant Behavior

These aren't labels in reference to people. They're simplistic ways to describe behavioral paradigms.

Field Line Added,

"when these terms were defined they were intended to describe behaviors. But somehow they have evolved to become idealized models of what people should strive to be, a flawed way of thinking."

Those idealized models should be discarded, and instead the behavioral clusters are presented.

Sigmas, Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Omegas And Behaviors (Revisited.)

It is of my personal opinion, that sex is an inarguable, biological fact, whereas gender is a dynamic polarity scale that operates as follows:

Feminine ------------------ Androgynous ------------------- Masculine

You can be a masculine male who behaves like a beta, and you can be a feminine male who behaves like an alpha. We both have seen these real life examples, the jacked weight lifter who could throw a man across a room, but struggles with women. The dainty pretty boy who swims in pussy and male admiration/respect.

Endorsed Contributor Auvergnat Stated,

This single fact alone goes a long way to explain women's behavior and answers one of the eternal question "what do women want?" with an answer that is simple, accurate and useful, it is at the very core of TRP wisdom. Wanting to overlook this idea is absolutely criminal.

Of all the different ways to understand alpha and beta, the common method chosen where - alpha = masculine winner, beta = unmasculine loser - is the least useful of them all.

Whatever You are, strive to be the best, most dominant version of yourself.

How do I know what I am? You may ask. Well, if you've asked that, you haven't been paying attention.

The better questions are:

  • What traits and behaviors do I display, in correlation to the male hierarchical system?

  • Are these traits and behaviors giving me what I want from life?

  • What behaviors and traits must I learn, improve, or discard to achieve my desired rank in the hierarchical system?

  • How will I implement these changes in behaviors, and how will I display these traits?

Because, we need to remember, The Red Pill Is About Sexual Strategy.

Alpha/Beta... AlphaFucks/BetaBucks, is a simple dichotomy used to reflect women's dualistic mating strategy, the fact that a women needs both.

The following charts aims to give insight into what motivates each male rank, and how each respective male behavioral cluster operates as a Provider (Beta Bucks,) Lover, (Alpha Fucks,) and Neurotic (Gamma Sucks)

My personal rendition of Abdada's chart (Credits to him):

Rank & Behavioral Cluster Motivation & Method
Alpha Seeks respect through dominance.
Sigma Seeks profit from risk-taking & rebellion.
Beta Seeks love through purchasing.
Delta Seeks comfort through conformity.
Gamma Seeks revenge through retribution.
Omega Seeks friends from belonging.

Note the wide range of differences. Alpha is sexual strategy, and Beta is love strategy, and Omega is belonging strategy, Sigma is strategical in profit/gain against risk/investment. Sex is just another profit for another risk.

. Bucks Fucks Sucks
Personality Type: (for Support) (for Passion) (for Rebellion)
Alpha (For Command) Captain Chad Dark Triad
Sigma (For Gain) Motivational Speaker Artist Scam Artist
Beta (For Love) Schlub / AFC FWB Goth
Delta (For Comfort) Stay At Home Modern Dad - The Normies Normal Guy With Beer Gut Whatever counter culture is "in"
Gamma (For Revenge) Controlling BF Angry Drunken Lover Psycho Stalker-Ex BF / Mass Murderer
Omega (For Belonging) Comic Con Gamer Pro Internet Hacker Troll / School Shooter

Breakdown:

  • Alpha Bucks = Captain = Head of the family, successful husband.

  • Alpha Fucks = Chad, women chase him but never expect him to commit. They usually don't even try. Has several females blowing up his phone on a regular basis.

  • Beta Bucks = Typical married guy whose wife shits on him constantly. Sometimes this is a new TRP visitor, but they're usually below this.

  • Beta Fucks = This is usually the top of the food chain for a TRP adherent. They get laid and can spin plates decently, but the women either want to lock them down into Beta Bucks, or the gals keep them around as a backup emotional tampon who they give sex to.

  • Sigma Bucks = This is the entrepreneur who really DGAF. He's got cash and that's his main concern. When Cindy cheats on Chad, it's usually with this guy if she can attract his attention and lock him down.

  • Sigma Fucks = The musician. The traveling artist. The photographer. The performer. He's getting laid because of his fame/status, the positive attention he receives for his art, + he doesn't care at all about outcome. He can win or lose and it doesn't matter. When Cindy cheats on Chad, this guy is a common factor.

  • Delta Bucks = A normie dude with money. Usually wimpy, adopts new age gender roles. Nothing remarkable about them, a real normal guy.

  • Delta Fucks = This normie is a better version of normal. The regular at his local bar who everyone knows. Nothing real special about him, he's just the most popular.

  • Gamma Bucks = He love bombs an unsuspecting women into LTRing him, and then domineers her life by constantly checking on her, spying on her, maintaining tabs on her whereabouts.

  • Gamma Fucks = Distraught about his ranking, but rather than putting forth the effort to improve, change, and adapt, he numbs himself and takes out his frustrations on his current lover, then makes up for it later. A cycle of abuse.

  • Omega Bucks = He's fat, he doesn't shower or cut his nails, his place is a mess, and he visits porn sites 3x a day. Yellow teeth. Some TRP redditors will be stuck here for good because their entire lives are fantasies.

  • Omega Fucks = This one is weird. He's the Vape Bro, or he's the guy with some odd technical skills. He actually gets laid. No one wants to be around him but he actually has spots of charisma that keep him "in the scene".

  • "Sucks" is almost accurate as these types tend to exude some self-hatred of their behaviors if you really drill down to why they act like they do.

Note there's a huge difference between Chad (Alpha Fucks) and Dark Triad (Alpha Sucks) in behavior, and Sigma to Omega.

BF purchases sex by being the kind listener. AF doesn't buy sex, he'll bang and kick her out and go do whatever he wants to. SF assumes sex is the outcome but doesn't care if it isn't, which leads to it ending up happening, then then he assesses whether to keep her around as he does other things in case he feels like a round two.

Alpha, Beta, Sigma, Omega, are also all statuses that can change through alteration of traits and behaviors, by one's own self or others implementation.

In other words, being alpha/beta/sigma is contextual.

You may be the alpha of your football team when you call the shots and your players follow your lead - but when you go to work after the game, you are subordinate to your boss, who orders you around.

Do not force yourself to be someone you are not. It's not natural and people will look at and treat you as the fraudulent impostor you are.

Sigma Male? That's just a male hamstering cop-out bro. (Debunking The Claims)

In order to explain in depth what a Sigma Male is, I must shatter the low effort perception that has plagued the term in question's connotation. Truthfully, the odds of being a Sigma are slim. You need a combination of Sigma and Alpha traits/behaviors. But keep in mind, traits and behaviors can be added, altered, and discarded with enough will.

Sigma is just a trap for male hamstering. I don't want to be a 'douchebag alpha' so I'll be the outcast from society sigma instead. I'd wager the vast majority of people who call themselves sigma are the bottom of the barrel guys who don't want to make an effort.

A sigma is NOT a social reject. Sigmas reject society. Not the other way around. Being sigma is not a cop out - you need alpha behaviors to be sigma, and you also need sigma behaviors to be sigma. Which means, you need to display good levels of social savvy, be able to seduce attractive women, be acquainted with many social groups and have the ability to lead them temporarily in person, or completely dominate them when you are "in your zone," (on stage for a musician, for example.) A necessary qualifying sigma trait is having good social skills and out-standing status/fame.

Sigma is a name for what every loser would like to imagine themselves as. We don't play the game and we still win it. The whole idea is bs, there are attitudes and actions which are attractive to women and there are attitudes and actions which aren't.

This whole "not playing the game," idea stems from not putting focus or effort into developing social connections, yet still gaining them anyways because you put your creations out there to be admired.

You need to be creative to be a sigma. You need to have a displayable CREATIVE ARTISTIC TALENT to be a sigma. That is an uncompromisable trait. If you are an uncreative loser, sorry, you'll never be sigma, because that is a defining quality. You need to be able to produce value that causes people to fawn over you.

And heres my reasoning why:

You can have a directionless, talentless, 9-5 drone be the "alpha" of his social circle, simply because he is the leader, he arranged it, happens to be the most dominate or charismatic. You can have a fit, foot ball player who spends his time fucking, lifting, and playing madden be the "Alpha" of his social circle. You can have a dweeb who never goes outside, doesn't lift, be the "alpha" of his magic the gathering gaming club. I think it was EC Heathcliff who said he used to do that with his MTG frat bros, and they were banging groupies in between the matches. They were displaying Alpha traits and behaviors - leadership, competition. But that is NOT sigma behavior.

Alphas win someone elses game.

Sigmas make their own game and win.

Your Sigma idea is not represented anywhere in nature.

Humans are part of nature, silly.

The average Red Pill user places such a die-hard importance on alpha behavior, but neglects the fact that we are human. We have, for lack of a better term, a soul that gives us the capability to create and enjoy art. Women see passion, in an artist's eyes, they see the crowd cheering their name, and the women can't help but feel aroused, and intoxicated.

Are there any other animals capable of producing works of art and evoking emotion through music, literature, cinematography?

We are not just animals, but the next evolution of animals.

What else makes a sigma?

It is much more effective for you to adopt attractive masculine qualities that are closer to who you are, rather than trying to be a the extroverted, loud, "Alpha bro."

Red Pill Moderator MachiavellianRed said long ago,

Sigma = a dominant and rebellious introvert

Sigmas are rebels. They are high on alpha, and they don't like to conform with the status quo. You can be extroverted and be a sigma, but typically they're introverted people who are very picky who they associate with, but able to interact easily with strangers.

Poets, Singers, Dancers, Artists, Comedians and every other weird, charming man, are Sigmas. That is why they don't need to lift to be swimming in poon, but they would all benefit by having a strong, healthy physique of course. Still they all exhibit sigma qualities, such as no need to lead, yet leading anyways. Being a spectacle to behold, giving an out an art to be enjoyed. Extroversion for an audience, introverted in person. Coupled with alpha traits, like ambition and fearlessness.

You need power. If you can't walk into a group and make things happen, you don't have power. That trait is constantly missing from the definition of sigma, and it's an important one. It's one thing to say or to think you have that power, but if you never prove you have it, or prove that you're willing to use it, your influence will wane.

However, a Sigmas power does not make him alpha, as the power is often temporary, in the moment, at the right place.

A Sigma is NOT an Alpha. It's a misconception of the terms.

Sigma = lone wolf. Alphas typically hate the Sigma, but enjoy their works/productions. You might hate Quentin Tarantino for using Nigga with the hard R so often, but Django and Pulpfiction were fucking phenomenal movies.

Most artists/musicians are Sigma males, NOT Alpha males. Lone wolf. They can do with or without, and absolutely no fucks are given.

Omegas are the lowest, but even some omegas CAN get laid. It's rare, it doesn't happen all that often, but it does happen.

A Sigma tends to be disconnected from outcome until he finds a profitable one. Then he'll work that angle until the profitable return is gone.

Here is a quote from Abdada:

One of my businesses sells printed goods to "famous" vendors at comic-cons so I have to put up with that shit all the time. I've been to plenty of after-con parties and the Gamer Pro neckbeards actually get blowjobs. It's insane to consider.

hat it boils down to is that almost no one coming here for the first time is a Beta. They only want to think they are. And almost no one who climbs out of their Omega role is actually an Alpha -- they're just getting to Beta Fucks and are happy enough with it. Why do so many guys who play Alpha turn out to become Beta Bucks providers? Because they were never Alpha types. They were BF who turned into BB easily. Purchasing love. "Purchasing" doesn't mean financially. Don't think of money in this situation, think of how a beta invests in a woman whereas an alpha rewards a woman who invests in him. Investing/purchasing can mean just putting time in without a hint of reward.

The average TRP redditor is firmly in the "Beta Fucks" role -- they want to think they're alpha, but if HB6+ gals aren't blowing up your phone constantly, you're no alpha. End of story.

Aren't Sigmas Just Alphas?

People always think that an alpha means DGAF but that's not always true. Alphas DO GAF, which is why the put forth so much effort into developing social relationships, they're just willing to walk away at some point. Sigmas really do tend to be disconnected from outcome and socializing more than the Alpha type, but the goals are also very different.

An alpha male has behaviors that lead him to be the center of social group's attentions, often the guys who organize events and lead people to attend parties, clubs, or shows.

The sigma male has behaviors and traits that lead him to be the center of an area's attention, higher than an alpha, for an elapsed period of time. He is the performing artist that alphas betas and women go to watch perform.

Red Pill Vanguard illimitable man once said"

The PUA is an alpha personality, or at least a wannabe in training. The MGTOW is more a sigma, or sigma wannabe in training. It's the difference between pack leader and lone wolf.

Alphas by nature of being the center of attention are typically extroverts. By definition you cannot be an introverted alpha. You can however, be sigma. There's a lot of semanticism here, but it's all relevant. If you want to understand a classification you've got to be specific.

Alphas are competative. Sigmas typically do not compete.

Alphas win competition, sigmas win without competing.

Alphas NEED competition, sigmas enjoy it.

The Alpha has an obsession with winning - a hunter killer mindset where failure is not an option. The Sigma believes he can win, enjoys the competition, but will ultimately be unaffected if he loses.

And thats the thing about sigmas - they dont NEED to compete, yet they still end up winning.

A musician is not "competing" they are simply making art that alphas and everyone else enjoy. An alpha, however, is competing for rank. The sigma has rank for being himself and putting his creations out there.

They don't care about being the baddest guy around, being the most sociable or charismatic, being the center of attention, or being the one who is listened to and respected, yet they wind up there by being an interesting and well developed personality with displayable high value traits in the form of art, that people oogle and enjoy.

People submit to alphas. People admire sigmas.

To me, a Sigma seems in a sense somewhat more potentially evolved than an Alpha. They have the power to dominate, but they choose not to, yet still manage to dominate and capture attention through their pursuits, rather than brute force (forming connections, networking, throwing parties) like the alpha.

Here is a quote from Senior Endorsed Contributor dr_warlock:

What did u expect Mr. Armchair Alpha? Competition at the top is fierce. TRP is filled w/ 'caring leader, moralistic alpha' crap. 'Alpha' has NOTHING to do with morality or making others feel comfortable. TRP clearly acknowledges inequality and advocates it via aspiring to rise to the top, but people still manage to conjure bullshit equality fantasies instead of becoming better themselves.

You wanted to be one of these guys, this is how it is. You have to prove your worth to be included, otherwise nobody gives a fuck. If you want to jump from the crab bucket mentality, you need something that the 'top guys' value.

And that is exactly how sigmas ascend the male dominance hierarchy.

Sigmas provide spectacles of art / creativity that the "top guys" value and enjoy. You tell me who is more valuable - the College athlete who is the alpha of his social circle, or the isolated rock singer who's concert he and his friends are attending.

Senior Endorsed Contributor, MattyAnon stated,

"Sigma is generally regarded as "attractive loner."

Sigmas CAN build a successful social circle, they just don't put effort into it - yet it happens anyways.

Sigmas are invited to hang out within social circles often, but dont do so all the time, and would rather spend time alone or with a lover.

How are Sigmas Made?

Most people who come onto the red pill aren't "Beta" by nature's definition, which is second in command, the Alpha's right hand man.

Instead, most people who come to the red pill are Omegas, or deltas.

Deltas come to the Red Pill to learn how to be Beta, then to learn how to be Alpha.

The common private wants to get promoted to the The Lieutenant, then wants to learn how to be the Captain.

Omegas come onto the red pill to learn how to be a Sigma, which is the result of going through a "Gamma male" phase.

An out-cast bullied loser wants to become the cool suave guy who doesn't give a fuck, but after learning about how "alphas" are treated and the true nature of the sexual market place, goes through a berserk rage phase (anger phase 2.0) that some gammas do not survive from leading to murder sprees. Gammas who are able to internalize Red Pill and Game concepts (whether through natural evolution or assisted learning through this subreddit and similar forums), apply the knowledge combined with introspection to finally become the best version of themselves - a successful outsider.

No longer is he the cities vagabond, the school's handy-capped kid. But rather, he evolves into the traveling bag sales man, or the cool foreign exchange student.

A defining difference between sigmas and gammas/omegas is that the sigma becomes attractive and accepted socially and sexually by providing value, often in the form of art that they produced during their periods of repression/depression, which draws people into their creative frame, and the fact that the sigma does not care about, or adhere to the social hierarchy causes people to love his freedom and rebellious nature.

Unlike omegas, sigmas always learn the rules of the social hierarchy from observation, but their understanding of them is more of an intellectualized practical grasp than a true intuitive understanding. They don't struggle with the hierarchy, they only struggle to take it seriously. Whereas the beta and delta automatically abide by the rules and the gamma resists them, the sigma's usual reaction is one of vague surprise. "You cannot be serious" is the sigma's mantra, and is applied instinctively to everything from an alpha's dominance display to a woman's test. Because whether he abides by the rules of the social hierarchy or fails to abide by them, the sigma doesn't have much of an opinion because he doesn't regard them as applying to him.

Sigmas are strong enough to go against the grain, and resist conformity, and survive it.

You only become a sigma through learning from, and evolving past, being a gamma male, and learning how to stop giving a fuck about relationships, and focusing on passions.

TRP Endorsed contributor Sarcasticus Stated,

I think the alpha/sigma dichotomy can best be summarized as follows:

alpha = extrovert alpha

sigma = introvert alpha

And I agree. You are not "born" an alpha, you become one, or are molded into one, or have it brought out of you. Men are made, not born.

Sigmas are natural alphas on the introspective side. Because of their alpha tendencies and mindset coupled with introverticism, they are plagued by feelings of hopelessness, despair, worthlessness and live in seclusion - slowly becoming omegas, because they dont understand their own potential for alphaness through the sigma path.

The omega then realizes he should have been something, and goes into a gamma rage, and once he matures past that (if ever) then he becomes a cool sigma, who he should have been from the beginning, and thus starts becoming valuable.

The Clever Question

And I know some of you are clever out there, and will try to throw me off by saying something like "Oh, so my gay neighbor isn't a faggot, he simply has faggot behaviors like fucking another man in his ass!"

Well I got a question for you to ponder, clever boy: If you happen to seduce an attractive, feminine looking, big butted, post-op transexual women, and you fuck he/she in the inside-out dick-pussy, then he/she reveals themselves to be a man, are you the text book dictionary of a homosexual, or are you attracted to the feminine form, and unknowingly exhibited the TRAITS/BEHAVIORS of a butt-fucking faggot?

Are you gay if you fuck a hot looking man that you thought was a women? No, but you DID exhibit a gay behavior by fucking a man.

Are you an alpha if you create a successful social group? No, but you DID exhibit alpha behavior by answering the call of leadership and creating a tribe people want to be part of.

That man is not a thief, he exhibits the traits and behaviors of one by stealing, and he can change those traits, walk the straight and narrow, and stop behaving like a thief.

Conclusions and Take aways

It is important to assess what behaviors you exhibit, and where that places you on the hierarchy.

A male who's naturally extroverted would generally do better embracing the path of the alpha as he's more likely to be a natural leader as well as the life of the party. The loud alpha stereotype exists for a reason. His appeal lies in being the leader of the pack whose presence is potently known by all in the vacinity.

Now if you find yourself to be more introverted (like myself) the sigma route is much better to take. Although he's more quiet than the alpha he's not shy by any means, he just doesn't give a fuck. He, quite literally, does not give a fuck. Little to no effort when it comes to social relationships. The sigma instead uses his creative and artistic outlets to become successful and provide value.

Indifference is one of his primary sources of strength, second to his creativity (which is also why he doesn't tend to get along with alphas who are strangers, as he doesn't play into the alpha's necessary hierarchy of dominance). He's not the loser outsider, he's the cool outsider. He draws his attractiveness from an artistically roguish mystique that women find intriguing and maybe even seductively dangerous if he goes the more rugged route.

"I could totally be an alpha, but I don't wanna! I'm, like, cool and outside the system and shit! No really!"

A common cop out made by betas and omegas who sometimes pose as sigmas for the ego boost. But in reality, Most sigmas never become alpha, and most people aren't sigma. Here's a quick way to tell if you're sigma - you are socially competent, are antiquated with many social circles, you have sexual success with objectively attractive (5+) women, you avoid socializing, but are good at it, you enjoy leading, but do it only when you feel like it, not because you HAVE to lead, you have an outwardly displayable creative and artistic talent, a pianist, a poet, an artist, that garners you attention and admiration. Your art seduces people for you, without you saying a word. You perform on stage with absolute confidence, commanding an audience, even if in smaller social situations you're more reserved. You receive standing ovations for your performances, while others are ignored or booed off.