Entanglement
Do not feed the Gammas!
Nice pretty girls usually have to learn the hard way that no well-intentioned deed involving Gamma males goes unpunished. It’s one of the stranger aspects of human nature that life’s losers are often far more arrogant and egotistical than the winners.
You can’t fix a Gamma any more than you can turn a midwit into a genius. It’s just not possible; any personal transformation has to come from within. It is as foolish to attempt to be kind to a Gamma as it is to try petting a stray pit bull that happens to be wandering the neighborhood, terrorizing the cats and smaller dogs. Even the smallest gesture of generosity or friendliness will be interpreted as sexual interest and risk making the woman offering it the next target of the Gamma’s romantic obsession.
Pity is no basis for friendship or for any other kind of relationship.
“Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.”
Proverbs of Solomon
Perhaps there is some sense after all to the recent discussion of women who prefer bears to men for chance meetings in the forest. Certainly the various bears who post here would be preferable wilderness company to the likes of Doof.
I've read this particular comic episode before, but seeing it reposted here I suddenly realized that the "I'm too intelligent to talk about makeup and sportsball or [insert subject]" line has its roots in simple disinterest in those topics. This disinterest is fine. What places it into the retarded realm of Gammary is equating non-interest in a subject as the subject itself possessing no redeeming aspects. As usual, the Gamma places the intensity of his emotions as the definition of reality. To the Gamma, other people being interested in a subject for which he has no interest must therefore mean that those other people are unintelligent. The Secret King always wins.
Ironically, makeup and sports can both be intelligently discussed at a high level because it is not the subject that is intelligent or unintelligent. The speaker possesses the intelligence, not the subject.