LOL!
Sure, I’m a scold and a fishwife——I worked hard to get this much steel in my spine dangit!
As for alphas, they are to us what Playboy centerfolds are to you....something to dream and fantasize about :)
I like to think of my dear Old Granny, who was a major influence on my life. She used to say, "Billy, you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."
She was a tough old Lady, in an age when you could be tough and a lady, family went west in the 1840's.