How to work with various SSH ranks

Editor's note: this post will change over time, as people wiser than me add their ten cents.

Alphas:
Don't contradict them in front of other people. Request a private meeting and contradict them there. Then the alpha knows that you are loyal and honest. Also save the technical/detail problems for the bravo(s) wherever possible.

Bravos:
Don't get between them and their alpha in any capacity. Don't ask them to contradict their alpha, don't disrespect their alpha in their presence. Bravos are known for their loyalty, and if you get between them and their alpha, you'll find that out in a hurry. Also, you can use them to run problems up the food chain to the alpha. Like alphas, save the contradictions for a private meeting.

Deltas:
Request and respect their input. They know what they're talking about. Be sure to acknowledge their input and praise their work, ideally in public, but at the very least in private.

Gammas: Make sure interactions are in-person, with witnesses. Avoid anything you can't publish or at least document. Points 2, 3, and 5 of the SJW attack survival guide apply to everything you do with gammas: don't try to reason, don't apologize, and document everything. And keep them away from the women. They are stupidly high maintenance and probably best avoided.

Omegas: Remote work

Sigmas: Let them do their thing, because that's what they're going to do anyway. Ignore their various eccentricities and focus on that which is relevant to the work. The few I've interacted with appreciated the personal space. They're remarkably rare so not really worth worrying about.

Lambdas: Rare. If they're really open about their proclivities, see gamma. If not, see delta.

Thank You William Thomas

Yes, I get it. Women's sports are boring. Swimming in general is boring. I've been to women's swimming events; got more homework done than had I spent the same amount of time in the library. It's great.

But y'all should stop it. Stop sperging about how the trannyfreak issue has wreaked havoc in divorce disputes and schools and God knows where else. There's a reason the Venn diagram of 'who cares about women's sportz' and MGTOWs is a perfect circle. It's a complaint that takes negative social skills to publicly voice. While they may be right, nobody beeping cares. It's a phenomenon common across the lower echelons of the male SSH. But I digress.

The point is, in his greed for getting medals while being slow, Mr. William Thomas of U Penn handed what may well be millions of churchian, cuckservative, or downright liberal Americans a golden red pill opportunity. His generous gift is the logical implication of his athletic fraud. Let us run through it. What does it take to say that it's wrong for a grown man to hop into a pool full of women and pull the testosterone card on them?

First one, men and women have to be biologically different. Specifically, men have to be so much stronger and faster that women cannot be expected to compete against them. Else why bother with separate, protected women's sports? Just co-ed every sport and watch the massacres.

Second, these biological differences have to be unchangeable by the labcoats. If the labcoats can change this stuff, then William's infraction is maybe competing before his 'therapy' is complete. His public sin goes from abomination to technicality. Furthermore, if humans can't change this stuff, what does that point to in terms of our understanding of genetics? Is it possible that, hypothetically, man and woman He created them, and that there's sod-all we can do about it? You get the idea.

Third, women deserve the privacy of their locker room. Your search engine will reveal certain rumors about Mr. Thomas' conduct at Penn State. Consider keeping a bucket nearby when you do go look. But women can only deserve the privacy of their locker room if men and women are, again, biologically different, and if there are aspects of human sexuality that require regulation. Works doubly in those related to little girls. Do you want your daughters/granddaughters/nieces changing around a naked biological man with the associated hardware in full view? Ask yourself further if a certain book, compiled approximately 1500 years ago, could possibly have warned us about not controlling our bodily passions?

Those three are very basic implications. Stuff everyone can understand, even public intellectual figures. Use them tactfully. Yes, it's technically dialectic. But there's plenty of rhetoric to go around. Compliment Mr. Thomas' Adam's apple and his beer gut. Both are clearly visible on the publicly available video footage. And when your less based friends start asking the fun questions, be sure to thank Mr. William Thomas for setting off everyone's disgust reaction.

Thank you William Thomas

Edit: an earlier version said Penn State. Turns out Mr. Thomas swims for U Penn. S/O to Vinny for catching it

Muth Be Nice: Musings on privilege

Privilege is real. It does not take the forms that we are asked to check, and it is often situational. Nevertheless, privilege exists, and the Christian needs to understand what this means for his or her individual situation.

For the purposes of this post, privilege can be defined as an advantage which the individual happens to have at the outset. Examples include height in men, visual beauty in women, as well as wealth and high intelligence for both. It should also be noted that privilege is never good or evil: that would be a category error. The whole point of privilege is that one does not choose it, so there is no moral element. Yet.

Similarly, most privileges are situational. Being a giant among men is all fun and games in most sports, but not in most buildings, cars, or shower stalls. High intelligence is a pain when interacting with the cognitively normal. Nevertheless, privileges exist. So what is the privileged Christian to do?

More.

That's the short answer. Luke 12:48 elaborates: " And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more". Christians who have received more than average, have to do more than average. This provides two valuable insights.

First, there is no need to feel guilty about being born rich, handsome, intelligent, tall, or anything else. It's part of the plan, and not in the Qtarded sense of the term. Life is not unfair, at least not in the sense that matters.

Second, there is no need to be envious of anyone who has it better than you do. Sure, they got a nicer house or car or whatever, but they also have more asked of them. Every time you get done in by circumstance, you know that God is giving you an easier time of it. If you'd gotten that promotion, pay raise, gold medal, or whatever, then more would be required of you. So thank God, and move on with life.

This begs one final question: do more of what? Love more, that's what. Love God more, and love thy neighbour more. It's the greatest commandment, so it's as good of a general direction as you're going to get. Got funds to spare? Support your church and community! People listen to you because you're good at rhetoric or just an Alpha? Tell them the truth, and the Truth! People trust you with their problems for no reason at all? Listen to them, it literally helps them! Humans are weird like that.

Whatever you got, love God and neighbor with it. It's both simple to understand and hard to do, but you got the Almighty on your side, so you should be fine.

Much Love!

PS as PhilosophicalBear on SG put it, the biblical term for "privilege" is blessing.

You will be a leader. Get ready for it.

Proverbs 5:13 reads:

"And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?" [Douay-Rheims]

"And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!" [KJV]


"I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors." [ESV]

"Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers, incline my ear to my instructors!" [NABRE]

Independent of which Bible translation you trust, the meaning is clear: trusting your teachers, masters, instructors et cetera is a good move. In the context of the full passage, the author regrets not listening to said people in authority about matters of adultery*. This implies that listening to leadership figures is usually a good move. But what does this mean for said leadership figures?

It is my opinion that all of you will end up in some leadership position at some point. Think about all the people who inspired you or whom you followed in your life thus far. Either they are formally in charge, or they have been in the job for a longer, or they generally give the impression that they know what they are doing. The odds that you will be one of these things will apply to you before too long. Even more so, if you become a parent, the children will look up to you for a long time. This applies to both men and women, as @ElaineAsh and other lovely ladies on SG confirmed for me.

Next, think about the times a leader or role model turned out to not be good at that job. That sucked, did it not? If basically everyone is going to end up in a leadership position, and bad leadership royally sucks, being a good leader is essential to follow the Greatest Commandment of loving thy neighbor as thyself.

As it happens, I personally end up in a lot of leadership positions, especially considering my age. And I could not tell you why this is. It could be for SSH reasons, or I just hang out with indecisive people, or something else. I truly have no idea why. Either way, thanks be to God, because I have screwed up a fair few leadership tasks. It is my hope and my prayer that my numerous leadership failures, explored below, can make you a better leader when the time comes.

One of the major times when I fail as a leader is in areas where I do not have my act together. The problem is that one leads not only explicitly by direction, but also implicitly by example. If I kind of skip the very necessary stretching before and after a workout, so do the people who look up to me. And then they injure themselves. Is it directly my fault? No. Could I have prevented it by being a better example? Yes. So have your act together.

Another huge thing is sleep deprivation, or anything else that messes with my discipline and self-mastery. The examples are obvious and plentiful. Leading by example goes wrong, because I mess up stuff that I would otherwise be really good at. Leading by direction goes wrong because I make really dumb decisions. I could write about the time I got caught going down the wrong way down a one-way with eight people in a seven-seater, but you get the idea. The solution is simple: get your sleep, your meals, and everything else you need in order, all the time.

Finally, major messes happen when I do not notice that people are looking up to me or looking at me for leadership. Sometimes I am just shooting the excrement because why not and who even cares. Well, people might care. And you might not notice that they are. The only solution is to be on my A-game most of the time.

All of the above sounds like an invitation to be self conscious and nervous about failure. Allow me to offer some consolation. If you mess up, you can clean up after yourself by admitting the failure and seriously resolving to do better, both to God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and to the people you were leading at the time. It is actually good for people to see their leaders mess up, provided said leaders admit it and fix it. 

In conclusion, you will lead some people at some point, whether you like it or not. Heck, you will lead people whether you notice it at the time or not. And it is very easy to lead well. All it takes is to have your house in order and to clean up after failures.

* TLDR for adultery: Cut it out. All of it. You will never regret not doing adultery things.

How much can one blame unprotected women?

Content warning: I am writing about abuse and related topics. Discretion is encouraged

Between Harvey Weinstein, Joss Whedon, and many other media figures, there is always a contingent of people who like to blame the women who, more or less voluntarily, agreed to their mistreatment. I find this to be wrong, if understandable.

There are several reasons to blame women for their semi-willing participation. Often, proponents of this erroneous viewpoint will argue that the victims could have just torched their careers, or spoken out sooner. Both of these are factually correct, and certainly a standard that men should be held to. Emphasis on men.

The problem is that women are objectively the weaker sex, in more than just the physical sense, even though the physical sense is part of the problem. Absent specialized martial arts training and/or firearms, the most pathetic gamma weasel can overpower most women. It is highly unfair, but that is how bone density and upper body strength work. While physical violence is seldom part of these stories, it is always in the back of women's minds. Deep down, they understand that pretty much every able-bodied man can overpower them. They have every reason to be afraid of men, especially men with less than entirely noble intentions.

Secondly, predators perfect their craft. They certainly do not run around with 'I want to hurt you in intimate ways'  emblazoned on their T-shirts. What they do is they seek out vulnerable women, make them more vulnerable, and then move in for the atrocity. In a similar vein, women are very easy to manipulate, and consequently to prey on. There is a reason that most consumer advertising is aimed at women: it is much easier to deceive them long enough to make a sale.

It is for these reasons that I find it unfair, and more importantly useless, to blame the women for what they were pressured into. It may be true, but it is about as useful as blaming a deer for getting himself shot in hunting season; they did not stand much of a chance. There is a much more effective target for blame. Where were the fathers, cousins, and brothers of these women? Unprotected women will be targeted, because it is so easy to target them.

For further encouragement, consider the fact that sexual predators are fundamentally cowards. Their physique is also much closer to Ira's than to Chris Hemsworth's, so most men are able to intimidate them. The first time I caused a creep to back down, I was 14 and my sister, the intended mark, was 12. And I just stared at the weasel. He physically backed away from my then skinny teenager frame. It would be funny if one ignored how many women still fall prey to these creeps. I repeat: predators are fundamentally cowards. If you show up, they back down.

If you want to protect women, do not just blame them. Educate and protect them. Much love!

The Delta-Bravo continuum

Since the SSH is more of a series of behavioral patterns than a set of drawers to toss people into, it makes sense that some people can exhibit multiple of these patterns, depending on the situation. The PUA world has long talked about situational alphas, which is a similar concept to this proposed continuum.

The idea of the Delta-Bravo continuum is that people who would normally be Deltas can be situational Bravos, and vice versa.

As patterns go, Delta and Bravo are extremely similar. Both function best when given a purpose by an alpha. Both can set their minds to someone else's goal, without suffering a mental crisis á la special boy. Finally, both tend to be fairly normal men with simple, conventional desires. They are not alphas who want to rule the world, gammas who live in a delusion bubble, or sigmas/omegas who want God only knows what. Since they are so close, I posit that a Delta can be a situational Bravo much easier than he could be a situational Sigma, et cetera.

For example, a Delta being a situational Bravo would be if a group decides that the most experienced member takes charge. If this most experienced member is somewhat reluctant, he is a Delta being forced into the Bravo role. I am confident that every Delta over twenty five reading this has a story about being asked to lead something he did not want to lead, simply because Deltas get so good at stuff that it makes sense for them to lead, much as some of them do not enjoy it.

Conversely, one can occasionally observe the more cheerful and boisterous members of the group really shrinking back when there is something new to learn, when the terrain becomes unfamiliar. This, I believe, would be a Bravo being a situational Delta because he does not know enough to lead. It is worth recalling that Alphas and Bravos tend to lead because they, often correctly, consider themselves to be good at leading, whereas gammas lead to get petty revenge or an ego boost. Therefore, when a Bravo feels unable to lead properly, he shrinks back. Alphas do the same thing, to an extent, because they too are capable of stepping back to benefit the group effort. It just takes a little more effort to slow down an alpha. If you ever see a guy with nothing but respect for the guy who just busted his nose, it is two alphas who figured out their relative hierarchy the hard way. If, on the other hand, busted nose says he actually won because the other guy cheated and he is off his game this week and is secretly an MMA champion, well, you can guess.

Female communication

Preface: This post does not apply to sigmas, lambdas, or women. Lambdas talk like women already, and sigmas are wild cards. Sucks to be you, VD et al, but I can't understand or help you. The rest of you, strap in and take notes, for the Holzkind is about to explain women to you.

Are you saying that you, a humble Delta with a big mouth and no filter, figured out women?
No, I did not figure out women, and neither can you. Not even women understand women. Matter of fact, most of them hardly understand themselves, let alone women in general.

That being said, there is something that most lower-SSH men need to understand: women do not talk like you or I do. Sure, they say words that sometimes mean exactly what they'd mean when a guy says them, but they say a lot more as well. This is where the concept of 'womanese' comes from. Same thing when you talk to a woman. She will hear what you say, and understand some of what you meant to communicate. She will also 'pick up' on all manner of other things that you 'communicated' through other means. 'Communicated' is in air quotes because you, being a simple man, often do not know that you are communicating these things, and you do not choose to communicate these things.

There are many people who have picked up on this before me. Rollo Tomassi describes it as a content versus context distinction, with men prioritizing content, and women prioritizing context. He also talks about how women prefer covert to overt communication. Here I have to disagree with Rollo, because, to women, there is nothing covert about this 'covert communication'. They see it is brightly as a man sees the headlights on an oncoming car. It only appears covert because we men are a little bit on the slow side in these matters.

That's all fine and dandy, but how do I pick up on all this covert female communication and learn to understand it?
You don't, because you can't. Your pathetic man-brain trying to keep up with female communication is like bringing a knife to a tank battle. Consider yourself fortunate if your mangled remains are afforded a dignified burial. Anyhow, let us get to the useful takeaway. How does the communicatively underqualified male deal with female communication? By not dealing with it.

Here's the deal: you can't understand women, but they can understand you. So force them onto your level. If you ever hear a woman complaining how men "don't get it" or are "stupid brutes", then there's an eleven in ten chance that she just had to simplify her multimodal communication into man-speak. Women hate to do this, but it's honestly their problem, not yours.

Similarly, do not engage in gossip or drama or social intrigues. Again, you're trying to take on an M1A2 Abrams with your trusted Victorinox. Not going to work, pal. Speak plainly and truthfully, or not at all. If you don't believe me, ask this weird Jewish carpenter kid from two millenia ago who turned a bunch of water into booze and flipped some tables at the temple. He told you to 'let your yes mean yes and your no mean no'. Additionally, both Him and His Father really don't approve of gossiping. 

TLDR: Women hear more than you say, and they certainly mean more than they say. So avoid their games and speak plainly.

Note to the gammas: Yes, I generalized. Yes, you're an extra special boy to whom the normal rules do not apply. Now ask yourselves why nobody likes you. Goodbye.

Possible cure for gamma

 In today's good news, I believe that the very real and very harmful mind virus called gammatude can be cured! Granted, the cure involves some minor injuries and does not always work, but that still makes it more beneficial than Bill Gates' Coronnu vaccine. Are you ready? Here it comes:

Work in food service for at least six months.

That's the whole cure. Don't worry about health insurance deductibles, you get paid to take this cure. Most affordable healthcare ever!

Here's how it works: you work in food service. Preferably in a smaller enterprise, but a chain should do the trick too. All your delusion bubbles will burst very quickly. You're not special in rush hour. Either you can perform, or you cannot. If you do not own your mistakes and fix them, everyone hates your guts, and rightfully so. You will reach your very narrow limits. If you're honest about your many shortcomings, you will improve, as will your standing with the colleagues and the boss.

There is no posturing on the shift. Every ticket, every ingredient that ran out, every dish in the sink is another moment of truth. Ironically enough, the more you admit failure, the less painful it is. That's how all of life works, but it's a lot more obvious in food service. Unfortunately, this makes it even harder for the gamma to bear. In academia, the gamma can survive for decades, because everything is fake and nothing actually matters. Food service does not run like that. Margins are low, time is short, and you can be replaced at the drop of a pan. Literally.

Now why, I hear you ask, does it take six months? Six months is long enough to guarantee that our gamma patient experiences very busy, understaffed nights, where nobody gets a break and everything goes wrong. Our last gamma lasted about eight shifts, none of which were particularly awful. All three managers hate him, as does the entire workforce. He quit, because we 'bullied' him. Admittedly, I did yell at him once, right after he sprayed hot water in my face and almost broke the dishwasher. He had it coming. He may have failed the cure, but I guarantee that it will work for you, if you can not quit and not get fired for six months.

Product disclaimer: there will be minor injuries. Mostly cuts, scratches, burns, and combinations thereof. Nothing that will kill you, and you get Teflon palms by the end of it. 800F is not actually that hot. 120F is certainly comfortable. Plus, chicks dig the calluses.

Heck, even the side effects are a net benefit! Big Pharma got nothing on me! Try the gamma cure today! Find a food joint and sign up!

PS if you want to comment that this is technically a therapy, rather than a cure, then you're a gamma. Get the cure.

Have an authoritarian personality

In 1950, a bunch of pathetic gamma weasels got together and published a book entitled "The Authoritarian Personality". I have not read this book, since nobody reads a gamma's walls of text if they can avoid it. Lucky for my mental health, the Glorious Defenders of the Good, the Beatiful, and the True over at InfoGalactic have a summary of the book. Allow me to demonstrate why every man should strive to develop an authoritarian personality.

Specifically, Adorno and his pals from the Frankfurt Gamma Hive found nine personality traits that the gamma fails to achieve, hence they demonised them on the 'f-scale', where the 'f' stands for 'fascism'.

The first of these doubleplusungood traits is 'conventionalism'. For all intents and purposes, this means that you do things a certain way because that happens to be the way that they were always done. For instance, when I use the toilet, I flush it, just because that is what my father and his father before him did / continue to do. I do not have any sophisticated opinions on sanitary practices, but I press the flush anyway. I suppose that, to be a good non-authoritarian, I have to be open to the perspective that toilets do not actually have to be flushed. Similarly, women are being awfully conventionalistic by preferring well-groomed, healthy men, as opposed to appreciating the gamma weasel for having all of those Call Of Duty ribbons.

Coming in second, we have 'authoritarian submission', which is when you do something because whoever is in charge said so. If you want to research it, you notice two things. First, you notice that the gammas always talk about the person in charge being a perceived authority ( page 2 of the introduction ). To the gamma, every authority is always perceived, because he's the secret king. The shift manager can't really be in charge, because the gamma is actually the one running the show. Secondly, those with a supernatural outlook will readily observe that one should develop an attitude of 'authoritarian submission' to God the Father of Jesus Christ, and that this extends to any legitimate authority, as all legitimate authority derives from God.

At number three, there is 'authoritarian aggression'. The gammas define this as "a general aggressiveness [...], that is perceived to be sanctioned by the authorities" ( Again, page 2 ). Again, two observations. First, this perfectly describes how normal, well-adjusted men act around gammas. As a matter of fact, women would act the same way around gammas, if they were anywhere near as aggressive as men. Second, notice the words 'general aggressiveness'. They do not restrict this 'aggression' to, ya know, literal violence, or even to yelling for no reason. They mean an attitude towards people. Yes, they are policing attitudes. Can you hope to get more gamma than that?

Additionally, one sees the same snarky use of 'perceived' that was already explored in the 'authoritarian submission' section. Furthermore, the biblically literate recall that there is such a thing as sanctioned agression, such as when Jesus flips some tables in the Temple, or when St. Paul the Apostle strikes down two liars in Acts Five.

One of my personal favourites is the fourth one on the long list of gamma gripes: anti-intellectualism. Per the definition, this describes "hostility and mistrust" towards various castes of the intelligentsia. In practice, it is another instance of the gamma being insufficiently appreciated for being a smart boy, especially when all the hot girls go for the 'dumb jocks' instead him. For the dialectically inclined, his Voxness is living proof that jocks are not necessarily dumb, and that smart guys are not necessarily misshapen little goblins who can't do a single pushup. Additionally, one needs but to read a single Gospel account to realize how anti-intellectual Jesus of Nazareth was towards the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Numero Cinque is something called 'anti-intraception', defined as a 'dislike of subjectivity and imagination'. To the surprise of exactly no-one, the gamma has a problem with this attitude, as he subjectively imagines himself the secret king, and generally operates in a delusion bubble. Anyone sufficiently anti-intraceptive will rapidly poke through this delusion bubble, causing another painful gamma meltdown. The virtuous man, on the other hand, strives to maintain an anti-intraceptive attitude, because the first step to solving a problem is not imagining that it is already solved. Similarly, subjectivity clouds judgment, leading to error.

For number six, we get a quick one: superstition. Rather straightforward really: if the supernatural exists, then the gamma weasel cannot be the Secret King of the Universe, so faith has to be Magic Sky Daddy superstition. Some sources also mention something called 'stereotypy', defining it as a repetitive, or ritualistic, movement or utterance. I suppose that saying 'Thanks be to God' rather often makes me a proto-fascist. Oh well.

Seventhly, the gammas decry "Power and Toughness" as evil. Failing to achieve either in the real world, the gamma demonizes both. As to why you should have these traits: being powerful and tough allows you to protect loved ones a lot more effectively. Additionally, power is necessary for the virtue of mercy, as you can only show mercy to those you have power over. You cannot be merciful to the guy shoving you into a locker, but you can be merciful by not shoving some scrawny gamma weasel into a locker. Similarly, being tough allows you to suffer tribulations for the kingdom. The non-tough would be the rootless seeds in the parable of the sower, for example.

The penultimate traits of the non-gamma are 'destructiveness and cynicism'. The first of these describes the action of doing real damage, 'making the rubble bounce', as it were. The second, contemporary cynicism, describes a 'disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions'. Again, the gamma has ample reason to hate both. Every time the glorious ban-hammer treatment is administered to a well-deserving gamma, that is an example of destructiveness. Similarly, the eternally dishonest gamma cannot deceive the sufficiently cynical, leading to the destruction of his precious and fragile delusion bubble. When called for, destructiveness is a good thing. Just ask the Rabid Puppies. Similarly, disbelief in the goodness of human motives is more than justified, since our human nature is corrupted by Original Sin.

Last but not least, the gamma complains about 'excessive concerns over sex'. Presumably, telling him to wait for marriage is too much to ask, and makes one a prude. In his defense, who would marry a gamma, given the choice? You see, the gamma wants to be left alone to pursue his perversions in peace, and the slippery slope is definitely a fallacy. Three drag queen story hours later, well, you get the idea. Anyhow, Jesus Christ talks about commiting adultery with one's eyes, if you are looking for an appropriate level of concern.

In conclusion, an authoritarian personality is good for you and your soul. As an added bonus, it allows you to torture gammas simply by existing.

How to be attractive as a Delta

Most men are deltas. And, contrary to gamma wisdom, one does not simply move up in the SSH. But deltas can make themselves more attractive to women. Here are some basic tricks to do just that:

Stop it with the vidya and p0rnos:

They're fun. I get it. It's a near-zero effort way to live the life of a higher status man, while the screen is on. Don't fall for it. Sure, being an alpha badass with a virtual rifle beats the nine-to-five, but it's also a ticket to gammatown as the fictional worlds take over from the real world.

Get a hobby:

Do something with your life. Preferably with other men and outdoors. Ask yourself which one of the following is more attractive to women:

a) Jimmy from accounting who's a Level 33 supermagic in World of Warlord

OR

b) Jimmy from accounting who works at a community garden and plays the guitar

Hit the gym:

Yes, women are that superficial. Use it to your advantage. While you're at the gym, do something for your cardio and your back, makes middle age much more fun.

Draw a line in the sand:

This can be anything, doesn't even need to be controversial. Examples include that you don't go to Starbucks, or that you shoot recreationally. The trick is to be firm and reasonable. Firm, because women will try to cross the line. It's a sh!t test, and you must pass it. Being reasonable is to make the line easier to hold. And hold the line you must. Prove to her that you are capable of making a stand.

Personal grooming is legal:

If a woman dates you, she will be seen in public with you. Dress like you have your act together. Even if you're single, you're better than that ill-fitting t-shirt with the pizza stains that should be in the hamper right now.

These are all the ones that I can think of right now. If I missed a big one, please leave a comment. I'm trying to help people with this list, so it's got to be good.

List of gamma tells

Disclaimer: This list is neither authoritative nor exhaustive. It will continually be updated, as lists tend to be. Use wisely.

The gamma male. An annoying creature that is hated by most people, especially by women and other gammas. They're not intrinsically evil, but they can be extremely destructive, and should thusly be avoided and cast out. It is preferable to cast them out before their inevitable meltdowns do a lot of damage, but gammas are hard to spot before they melt down, especially in cyberspace, where their neckbeards, protruding guts, and fedora hats are not seen. Hence this list of proven gamma tells:

'Well, ackshually':
This is a favourite argument tactic of the gamma. It can be valid dialectic, if it is factually correct. The gamma however uses it to posture. Often found when nobody was asking for the gamma's input.

Assuming stuff about the other person, especially their feelings:
99% of the time, this is pure projection. Excellent example to be found here.

Posting about their leaving:
Smarter, savvier gammas can tell when they're unwelcome. If they choose to leave, they cannot help posting about how disappointed they are, and how much the forum is beneath them, even though everyone hates them and wants them gone. Either that, or they think that they were wronged and definitely haven't gotten over it. Excellent example of the latter to be found here.

Wall of text:
While other gamma tells are specific patterns, this one tends to be extremely obvious. Gammas have not mastered the art of brevity at all. They will go on and on, forever and ever. Some even claim that the stage of a gamma spiral can be determined by the length of the wall of text.

Special boy usernames:
If someone styles their online monicker after a famous thinker, he's a gamma. It's a form of posturing, and a fairly reliable early warning sign.

Failure to tell macro and micro apart:
Granted, many people are not intelligent enough to separate the individual from the statistic. That being said, gammas do this because their feelings are hurt, while they are perfectly able to differentiate macro and micro when it is not about them.

Additional resources:
https://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2011/03/socio-sexual-hierarchy.html
https://voxday.blogspot.com/search/label/Gamma