Welcome to the Alpha Male blog hop. 3 Grand Prizes and 200 authors participating. Many more smaller prizes. Just leave a comment with your email at each hop to enter.
The Alpha Male – Wonderful as a romance hero but hell to live with in real life.
As a romance hero, the alpha male is the star of Harlequin Presents novels, cowboy romances, police and detective novels and Nascar stories.
We’ve all read about him, dreamed of a man like him, pictured ourselves making love with him. Policemen, Navy Seals, Billionaires who jet around the world and buy and sell companies and can make or break careers with a snap of their fingers. What’s not to like? He’s bigger than life and a man that women admire and lust after.
But what would he really be like as your husband?
You only have to go back to the 1950s to see what life was really like for women married to alpha males. Most men were that type back then, whether they were farmers or CEOS.
Women stayed home and took care of the house and children. They washed clothes, raised vegetables, canned or froze food for future use. They baked pies and cookies. They worked hard at church and charity functions and did all kinds of unpaid volunteer jobs for their families and communities.
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Even if they had servants, they worked hard at volunteer functions or being the unpaid hostess at their husbands society affairs.
They had no control over their own bodies. Rape was common and if a woman dared report it, she was treated by police and many other people as though it was her own fault. She’d asked for it by her dress or her demeanor, was the usual comment, often even by other women.
Men were the breadwinners, women were supposed to stay home and have dinner on the table at the proper time for their hero. A favorite male joke was “keep them barefoot and pregnant.” If they got a job, it was a woman’s job, for far less pay than men got, even for the same work. That is still true to a large extent today.
How do I know, you ask? I lived through those times and have no desire to return. I sure hope the Tea Party doesn’t succeed in taking us back there. Sigh. Been there, done that. Shudder.
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Edna Curry
33 comments:
My favorite alpha male is more like a family of them...The Mackenzie's created by Linda Howard are my favorite ones...but I also love the Doms in Cherise Sinclair's Shadowlands series.
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My favorite alpha - I'm kind of digging Heather Graham's ghost hunting guys. lcahoon7@gmail.com
I met my first true Alpha Male the summer I was 18. I was working for a charitable organization having a fund raiser and lots of movers and shakers came through the office. Many were arrogant and expected to be treated with deference. But one man stopped to talk with me, learned my name, never failed to greet me, and once brought me a glass of punch when he realized I'd been working a registration table for a couple of hours without a break. Guess who was the most powerful man I met that summer? Guess whose requests I always took care of first? I learned that those with true power don't make the "little people" acknowledge it. They don't have to.
So true, Heather. My dh is a true alpha as well. I fell in love when he took his nieces and nephews in his arms, no matter how grubby they were. And even lay on the floor to play with them.
All the best Alphas have a soft side as well as the arrogant side.
Edna Curry
loved your blog post today and i do agree we can't go back to the way things were but a strong head of the household still works
parisfan_ca@yahoo.com
I like the alpha males that Kristen Ashley creates and the vampire warriors from the BDB series.
Cambonified[at]yahoo[dot]com
I love the alphas of Gabrielle Evans and Lynn Hagen.
Yvette
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I love Alphas, because I need someone as confident and dominant as me to be an equal in our relationship - I hate the feeling as if partner is less powerful than me and cannot make it without me.
My favourite Alpha male is Gabriel from Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate, because he's strong, confident and willing to fight for what he wants.
Thanks for doing this!
Rachel (oceanrebel333 [at] gmail [dot] com)
Thanks for the giveaway! I love Samuel from Patricia Briggs's books.
phaedracamille@gmail.com
Love the alphas from BDB series and the Doms from the Shadowlands series.
skpetal at hotmail dot com
Love your post! My DH is also an alpha. How lucky! xstitchdiva at att dot net
Thanks for having the giveaway and participating in the hop!
dmr8888 at yahoo dot com
Thanks for the Alpha males blog hop,and Happy Hop.
r.d1@myfairpoint.net
I love alpha males because they take charge, kick ass and look great while doing it! Just their commanding presence in a scene gives me the chills! I can't just pick one so my favorite alpha males are Bones from Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series and Barrons from Karen Marie Moning's Fever series. Both are similar and different in so many ways but have the same stubbornness and raw animal magnetism that defines them as alphas.
Thanks for the awesome hop and for the chance to win!
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Why I love Alpha Males is no real surprise! The perfect Alpha Male for me could be a Vampire, a Scottish Laird, an English Rogue/Gentleman, a Werewolf or Shape-shifter, or a Knight. He’s the rogue who thinks he can’t be reformed into a gentleman. He’s the rough and scarred Scottish laird that has a heart of gold. He’s the werewolf or shape-shifter that needs to heal an aching heart because it took him years to find his true mate. He’s the vampire who has waited decades for that special someone’s blood to sing to him and wake him up. And he’s the knight who can defeat the enemy with a quick swing of his sword, but can’t see the love in front of his face. My Alpha Male has eyes that can see into your soul and are as blue as the sea, or as black as a storm. He’s tall and brooding. His heart can enfold you into its grasp and make you fall in love when he gives it to you freely and completely. He is protective and passionate. In the end he is the one that makes your heart jump and butterflies fly in your stomach, and still kiss you until your legs melt!
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I totally love the over confident, strong willed, somewhat over-bearing protective Alpha. With that said, he also needs to have 'the looks' I so love: dark longish hair, over 6'3", green eyes with long black eyelashes, a killer smile, and dimples are a bonus. Don't forget that muscular physique. No doubt he'll have a cocky attitude with all that greatness above, which I also love, but he better have some Snark in his sense of humor. I need to laugh AND want to kick his a$$ at the same time. lmao
Would it work in real life? Who knows....
Thanks for the chance,
Sebrina_Cassity at yahoo dot com
Thanks for being a part of the blog hop! While I see the draw of the 1950's alpha male, I do not think they would be the man for me. Barefoot in the kitchen just isn't going to cut it for this modern girl!
Best wishes,
Marlena
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A bit Don Draper from Mad Men like...
The world is a strange place, isn't it? On one end of the spectrum we managed Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth the first. On the other end there are billions of women who were treated far worse than horses or spices.
If it's a political conversation you're up for, here's something that I wondered...
The attempted law to approve some free birth control... why was NONE of it for men? No free condoms. No free chemical castration.
Does the lacking in that make the law more pro-women (because only they can get something free), more pro-men (because it passes the responsibility for birth control back to women), or more anti-men (because they are not getting something for free)?
What if there had instead been a law passed to make any contraception which has been shown to lower the transmission of diseases for "free" (or covered by insurance)? Would there be less opposition to the possible health benefits?
Then again, I noticed that several of the groups who oppose any and all forms of birth control are also opposed to any and all forms of financial assistance for those who can not provide for their children. Some how people are very opposed to preventing the possible fertilization of an egg, but are very much in favor of a child going naked and hungry.
Perhaps there need to be some Alphas to take over and fix the very broken system of the world. It is a broken system when an animal gives his life to become food for the people, and then that food product is not purchased because not enough people can afford it, and THEN the great atrocity occurs of the food that animal gave it's life to create is thrown away.
Your blog made some interesting points. Hopefully my comment has not gotten to far off the topic. I sometimes ramble when I ponder.
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Thanks!
rfg dot wwe at gmail dot com
Master Adam, Master At Arms series
My favorite alpha is Roarke from JD Robb's In Death series.
sqwalker2@gmail.com
One of my favorite alpha males is Rhett Butler. I remember having a huge crush on him as a teen. He just had that commanding, devil may care attitude
Mel
bournmelissa at hotmail dot com
I don't think that 50's men are examples of alpha males. I don't hink a true alpha wants a women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen, I think he wants a women to kick but at his side
sugerlady@aol.com
Broderick from Ransom by Julie Garwood.
magic5905 at embarqmail dot com
I definitely think alpha males are more fun in fiction than in real life, but I don't really think that all alpha guys just want women to stay home and make them dinner either.
Jyl22075 at gmail.com
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway! I like my alphas confident, intelligent and extremely protective of what they consider theirs. It's also important to me that he be loyal and true for those he cares about~ while having the ability to be extremely dangerous toward everyone else.
MostlyMisha[at]gmail[dot]com
Great hop!
Thanks for the chance!
bacchus76 at myself dot com
I love your post!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
cassandrahicks1989@yahoo.com
So many great posts on what makes up an alpha male. I like the strength and compassion that they show.
koonie2888 at yahoo dot com
Fantastic Blog Hop! I love alpha males who are Strong, Sexy and Smart!
susanmplatt AT hotmail DOT com
I like an alpha who is brave, loyal and protective. I also like a sense of humor. Thanks for the giveaway.
kaylyndavis1986@yahoo.com
I love alphas, who are strong, intelligent, protective,loyal and have a wicked sense of humor. Thanks for the giveaway!
marlenebreakfield(at)yahoo(dot)com
Yes, real life alpha males are nothing like the fantasy! Thanks for the opportunity!
pennykathleen28(at)gmail(dot)com
I love the Alpha males I read about! The real ones are a pain!
Stephanie
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