

Much like his older counterpart, the sigma male is assigned with a range of personality traits and abilities that supposedly make him a better man than all these other non-sigma men. Basically, an alpha male but with more introverted tendencies. The sigma male is described as an independent, socially reclusive version of the more popular alpha male. The sigma male is a new addition to the dictionary of the hypermasculine world view. You see it on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, social media platforms that are home to edgy quotes edited onto pictures of the Joker and cutesy graphics about being a girl boss in a world of office peons.Ĭongrats, you’ve had a chance encounter with the sigma male. It’s not enough for some people that they’re the best version of themselves, they need the feeling of power that comes with mentally framing themselves as superior to everyone else around them. That said, a few of us take it a step further. We all aspire to be the best versions of ourselves and the beginning of a new year is always a great time to visualize the person we could be if we could just get to bed before 2:00 in the morning. Kidding aside, there’s nothing wrong with that.


They’re the Type As, the go-getters of the world who always seem to have too much energy in the morning. My list of resolutions just boils down to “stop living like a cryptid.” Yours is probably better, but the more ambitious of us aspire to more than just being an okay-ish person. A new year means a new set of resolutions that we likely won’t end up accomplishing.
