This is the only subreddit that seems to follow a good post with further reading links. Honestly some decent writers here, at least in terms of rigor

This alpha-beta stuff doesn’t seem coherent at times like these. Betas are second. Why do we talk like they’re bottom barrel boys? Am I an alpha because I refuse to get fucked over or let others get fucked over? Or am I a beta because I don’t have a posse of women? If I find my gal playing around she can sit on the sidewalk, but I don’t need five 9s to pile drive on the weekend. The...[More]

I think the distinction is on this reward scheme, in which one would want sex and the other wound want x, where x is a different pleasing task for the other.