Alpha female6/12/2023 ![]() It may be that we are mistaken in looking for the qualities of alpha male in alpha female. "Nicole Kidman might be more like alpha woman than anyone else: physically perfect, shrewd, intelligent, good at making money." There are so few like her that it is a lonely life, but it may be worth it. She does have friends in the way the rich have friends, and flies them over to her parties. She despises alpha males and they are terrified of her. She is not married - she's too focused to get married. "We don't really like alpha woman very much, she's not a nurturer. Alpha woman wouldn't concern herself with housework: she would find someone else to whom she would delegate. Novelist Fay Weldon sees alpha female running corporations, paying little or no attention to the domestic sphere - which is where she differs from Superwoman: "Superwoman was everything man and woman wanted her to be: she did everything and was a good wife, earned a good salary and kept the carpets shampooed. She is dominant: if she married alpha male, there would be a bloodbath. I envisage the mind of Mary Warnock, the body of Kate Moss and the humanity of Leni Riefenstahl."Īchievement is the focus of alpha female's life anything else is secondary. If she has children, they only come out between 7-8pm, washed, dressed and brought up by someone else. While she would be effortlessly talented and capable, she would need a reduced capacity for empathy, because otherwise it would derail her. "Alpha female, like alpha male, depends on such a sense of innate superiority that she's probably not aware of her status. Her life is ordered by employees while she focuses on achievements and looking good. The difficult, truculent alpha female has been sexualised."īeyond Hollywood, Sarah Dunant, writer and author of The Birth of Venus, sees alpha female as inhuman rather than superhuman. We're not seeing career women in clicking heels any more. As film producer Lizzie Francke points out, we have not seen alpha female in Hollywood for some years: today's action heroines, Lara Croft and the Terminatrix, are comic-book figures: "These action women are very sexualised, fetishised in leathers and tight body suits: it's boys' wet-dream material. These were alpha anti-heroines, while in Alien, Sigourney Weaver combined courage with nurturing. ![]() In Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close refused to take abandonment in a submissive way. In The Last Seduction, Linda Fiorentino was clever, sexually voracious and heartless, a villainess for our time. In Hollywood films, any female character with alpha-male attributes is a monster. They are not frightening or domineering, and as a result, they will never make it to the top job. There is no one in British politics today who could be described as alpha female: to most commentators they are not bruisers, but nannies. She always said, 'Don't ask me about being a woman.' Hers was the only cabinet with no other women in it." "Mrs Thatcher refused to have anything to do with the sisters. ![]() Women want to be liked, which holds them back. Women do not like alpha female very much, nor do they want to be like her. Those women who do get to the top are mavericks, hybrids and deny that they are like other women. ![]() "There are not a whole lot of people trying to be like her, whereas there are a lot of men behaving in the same way, clambering over each other to reach the top of the tree. "Alpha female is pretty exceptional," says columnist Polly Toynbee. ![]() There are very few alpha females of this order, since most women have had the alpha-male qualities conditioned out of them and have been steered towards nurturing roles rather than world domination. She is aloof, inscrutable behind those dark glasses. Anna Wintour, editor of US Vogue, is a classic example of alpha female, driven by insecurity and ruling by fear. Sexuality plays a big part in alpha male's success, and alpha female Margaret Thatcher was a tremendous flirt, who spent a lot of effort on her appearance. If we base alpha female on the male model, we will find her in the boardroom, impersonating his bullying and overriding ambition. ![]()
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