"Queen Bee"

[ritaxis]

When you assert that a woman gets away with a behavior because she has a "queen bee thing" going on, what are you saying about her? What is the equivalent language you would use for talking about a man? Is there an equivalent concept? If so, why can't I think of it? If not, why?

Context is, as James Nicoll says, for the weak.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Well, alpha male and female do exist, it's just that it's not actually a big complicated social dominance and challenge and mobility thing, it's Mom and Dad and then everyone else, who are usually their children. It's a genuine thing among canids, just not in the deformed sense observed in captive artificial wolf packs.