Sakura of DOOM

I read your response before I read the article, and the article is even worse than I'd thought. It basically replicates the sexist paradigm where women have to be in control of men's sexuality. Men aren't responsible for noticing signals; women are responsible for giving them. Men aren't responsible for stopping themselves; women are responsible for stopping them. And, of course, this is generally taking place in both a real-world and fictional context in which men *actually* have the control--socially, legally, and physically--that women are *ostensibly* responsible for enforcing.

Also, I do not have words for how much I hate the romance genre's adoption of the terms "alpha hero" and "gamma hero." They are bastardizations of evolutionary science which naturalize cultural and highly charged behaviors. Humans are primates and primates are pack animals -- but primate dynamics differ from primate species to primate species, let alone from the canine dynamics usually referenced. "Alpha dog" and "alpha bitch" are not synonyms.