[Icarus]

Heartiste recently wrote a post on the sigma male. An excerpt:

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An ample supply of cute girls are attracted to him, and some of those girls want to be with him exclusively. He oozes badboy allure, and he’s been known to make a girl or two cry in despair, and perhaps to have had his heart broken in return. So he is, by most men’s paltry standards, a successful predator of poon. (A noodle-armed emo crooner fronting an indie band is a well-known Renegade Alpha archetype.) But he doesn’t have the broad social leverage that a traditional “leader of men” alpha male has at his disposal, and this somewhat limits the Sigma Male/Renegade Alpha from monopolizing the attentions of a large pool of 9s and 10s, or of enjoying the distaff fruits of a wide and deep social circle of admiring friends and accomplished business partners eager to play matchmaker.

However, that same outsider status and rule-breaking dereliction of the Renegade Alpha also frees him from having to live up to the expectations of an insular social group. This freedom is especially nourishing if that group is a cult of winners with an unforgiving, judgmental distaste for deviance from the norm.

Nomadic introverts who are successful with women would be sigma, then. Acquiring a reputation and high social status is a hell of a lot of work. If you don't spent too much time in the same city, why bother acquiring status if you can't use it when you move to the next city? Local status is not a liquid asset, you can't trade it for money, you can't even trade it for high status in a new city. When you move, you start from zero.