Times Person of the Year is...

Is anybody else seeing this?

Seeing what?

Andy from National??? I knew it was you!

It's like you arguing with your younger self. You've grown up so much.

^Beat me to it.

Hmm, which smiley should I go with? And

I'm always a bit irked when Time's Person of the Year isn't an actual individual person (e.g., "The Endangered Earth", "You") because it seems like a bit of a cop-out.

However, given the widespread impact of the #MeToo phenomenon, I think it's a pretty good choice. We're likely to remember this (and feel the repercussions of it) for years to come.

Access developer? Payroll?

Agreed. Wasn't the first "non person" they made Person of the Year when they made the personal computer it?

because power is the ultimate aphrodisiac - the men with the highest status (AKA the boss) attract the most women. Women like winners, not losers - women like strength, not weakness. This is how things work in the animal kingdom especially among many mammals specifically higher primates like chimps, gorillas, and humans.

I've always kinda wondered when it became okay for chefs to behave that way?
You talk to a guy like that on a construction site, you best make sure he's not holding a power tool at the time.

actually, the alpha structure has long been refuted...
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he story of the term “alpha wolf” is fascinating and one in which Mech was an important player. In 1968, Mech finished the manuscript for what would become his best-selling book, The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. In it, he references the work of Rudolph Shenkel, a biologist who studied the behaviour of wolves in a German zoo in 1944. It was Shenkel who first coined the term “alpha wolf” in reference to his observation that male and female wolves seemed to compete to become dominant within their group. Mech then included the term in his book.

The trouble with Shenkel’s work was that wolves behave very differently in the wild than in zoos. When you take a group of human strangers and put them together, alpha men and women tend to emerge. According to Mech this also happens with other animals, including wolves. But wolf packs don’t form in the wild the way that they do in captivity; instead of strangers being thrust together, wolves form around family units. The “alpha male” in a pack is usually just the “dad,” the “alpha female” just the “mom”, and the rest of the pack follows their lead, not because of some competitive vying for dominance, but because it’s mom and dad.

Mech came to this realization when studying wolves in their natural habitat in the Arctic. When it became obvious that using the term “alpha wolf” in his first book had been misleading, he began to publish articles correcting the misinformation. It took him over a decade, but eventually, the references of “alpha” behaviour among wolves in scientific literature fell precipitously. Unfortunately, Mech has been unable to dislodge the term from mainstream consciousness (to his frustration).

besides, most gorrilla communities are matriarchal.

AMEN! I worked construction for several years - we'd "bust balls" in a joking manner among ourselves and occasionally a foreman would yell & bitch, but nothing close to a hostile work environment. Yes much vulgar language but that's just the way we talk (and still do). Damn I did 22+ years in the military and other than basic training I've never been treated in such a way and this includes combat conditions. There's just no excuse for it!

The hypocrisy of leftists know no bounds. I guess because Taylor Swift didn’t denounce enough for The Party she deserves to be sexually harassed.

Am I missing something? What is that?

I bet there is a ton of sexual harassment there. How much do you want to lose?

You're a troll, an attention whore...
What self respect?