Oh scuse me, they act like dogs.

http://www.livescience.com/health/060731_pitch_dominance.html - Men Act Like Dogs to Determine Dominance

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A male dog will whine and beg in deference to a stronger dog, but will lower its voice into a guttural growl if it thinks it has a fighting chance.
Men unconsciously do a similar thing, scientists say.

A new study finds that the lower the pitch of a man's voice, the more physically dominant other men think he is. And men lower their voice pitch when addressing a man they believe to be less dominant than themselves, but raise it when speaking to someone they think is more dominant.
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On the interweb all males think they are dominant so they lower their writing to appear more dominant.

Women are attracted to men with low gravelly voices for that reason.

Or they just want some Lucky Strikes.

God DAMN I have got to get me some of that research money for obvious results. Is there an agency that runs these things? I'd like to do a study on "Men like breasts" or "Women prefer men who aren't grossly obese" or maybe "People hit by cars tend to get injured"

This is obvious?

> This is obvious?

You quickly learn that for people on interweb every study is obvious in retrohindsight.

That men's behavior derives from the behavior of pack animals? Where did the term "alpha male" come from?

Seriously - I honestly thought this was established decades ago.

>That men's behavior derives from the behavior of pack animals?

No, the way that men vary the pitch of their voice.

One of the funniest episodes of Buffy was (SPOILERS) the one where an evil bartender has spiked the beer with something that regresses people to cavemen.  A bunch of frat boys drink it and then go on a tear.  Meanwhile, the obnoxious guy who did a hump and dump on Buffy is hitting on Willow and she's playing along.  Even though you can see it coming, the scene where she tells the guy that he's just a stupid neanderthal like all other men right at the moment the frat boys burst in is priceless.

"On the interweb all males think they are dominant so they lower their writing to appear more dominant."

Who ever said that males aren't naturally "dominant" when there's no one around to knuckle under?

"A male dog will whine and beg in deference to a stronger dog, but will lower its voice into a guttural growl if it thinks it has a fighting chance."

Not even true.  Smaller dogs will attack and go for high on pecking order all the time.

"And men lower their voice pitch when addressing a man they believe to be less dominant than themselves, but raise it when speaking to someone they think is more dominant."

I've always made it a habit to do the exact opposite.  Including women though, I've often raised it around women.  My voice is naturally low.

Articles like this make Cosmo look like required reading.

>>That men's behavior derives from the behavior of pack animals?

>No, the way that men vary the pitch of their voice.

Recall that Philo argues against his version of events, not the facts.

This has been observed in Apes for some time.

Frans de Waal also described these things - including the voice thing - in humans years ago.

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail231.html

A few years ago he analysed Dutch politicians during their election campaign in purely ape gestures and noises.

And of course, without using any meaning of language, it was completely clear what happened between those human apes.

It goes a long way explaining why Bush was elected in the USA.

Hail to the chimp.

"Recall that Philo argues against his version of events, not the facts."

Hey, I'm just trying to fit in around here, and that seems to be the SOP.

Lame.