Surely, you want to know about gamma male traits because you suspect that you’re one? Did someone say that you might be one? Or, do you feel someone around you is a gamma male?
Well, whatever your situation might be, this think-piece will share all the interesting traits here. Even the most minute traits will be mentioned here. Though insignificant, you never know when your knowledge might help.
So, let’s begin!
20 Gamma Male Traits to Know More about Him
Gamma males are known to be intellectual and romantic. Yet they aren’t desirable enough for their romantic interests. They are pretty feminine yet they fail to understand the needs of a real woman.
To know more interesting things about a gamma male, dig in!
1. His intelligence is incomparable
A man with a gamma male personality type is great in his own field. If he follows his passion and gives optimal effort, he can become a genius in no time. In fact, he is highly intelligent in his chosen field.
So, he can shine hard in his academic and professional life. However, don’t assume that he’ll be good in everything just because of his excellence in one.
Rather, he’ll only be outstanding in one or two nerdy talents. So, if anyone pushes him to try everything because he’s good in a few specific matters, they’ll be gravely disappointed.
This can even pull down his own spirits and make them feel insecure. So, it’s better to not push him and let him progress at his own pace.
2. His empathy leads to nice guy syndrome
A sweet trait of the gamma male archetype is his compassion and empathy. He can pick up on others’ feelings even before they express them. They feel sorry for others and their kind hearts can’t take others’ pain.
So, they try to make the other person feel better. He becomes the nice guy in every circle. And sadly, this world doesn’t treasure them because they are way too nice to demand what they deserve.
There’s also a saying “women like bad boys”. However, it’s a particular trait among high-value women.
He is a great choice as a friend. But he’s not enough to set a woman’s desires ablaze.
3. He’s not conventionally attractive
Gamma men aren’t good at attracting women because of their appearance. No, don’t misunderstand… You see, all human beings are equally gorgeous. And don’t believe that physical features can be ugly.
However, the gamma man is totally out of shape. So, most women around him judge his appearance and lack of dedication to his own body. He isn’t particularly a macho, handsome, or sexy man to the ladies around him.
Women assume that he’s a lazy bum that just can’t go to the gym or get a nice haircut. They might even give away to mama’s boy vibe. Some women might even think “I won’t be caught dead dating him!” Yeah, it’s a pretty cruel and judgmental world, right?
4. He’s a hopeless romantic
The gamma male, though not preferred by most women, has impossible standards. Most men’s gamma personality types are hopeless romantics. They believe that love is truly the same as in fairy tales and rom-coms.
They seriously believe that love isn’t superficial at all. He believes that even if he isn’t “good-looking” by the books, grand gestures will help him find love. They get them gifts, serve them well, and show affection in all languages of love.
Well, true love doesn’t depend on looks but attraction is the foundation of love. So, a good appearance is important to find true love. He focuses way too much on going big like in princess stories and gets rejected.
5. His warped understanding of love pushes women away
You probably think that gamma men get mistreated by the women around them. Or, that they only meet mean and superficial women.
They apparently believe that if they show their love more, a woman will feel more attracted to them. So, they chase a woman too hard with their romantic expressions and expect them to reciprocate their feelings.
The gamma mane believes that if he shows pure affection, he’ll undoubtedly get her heart. He thinks “She’s supposed to like me more than alphas and betas. After all, I don’t objectify her, so I deserve her”.
However, this turns off women even more because they have a weird sense of entitlement for reciprocated love.
6. He’s jealous of other men
Men with gamma personality traits turn women off despite their huge effort to win their hearts. However, women feel naturally attracted toward alpha, beta, or even sigma males.
So, gamma men often feel jealous of them for doing nothing yet still attracting high-value women. This results in personal hatred towards these men even if they never hurt them.
Their jealousy towards the conventionally better men makes them look like a loser. High-value women believe that it was the right move to not choose him. Because his jealousy is so groundless that they fear gamma men are toxic and low-value. They might enter a never-ending cycle of refusal, resentment, and low-value on loop.
7. His dating life is sorrowful
The dating life of a gamma male is truly the worst. But it’s not because he poses as a nice guy and feels entitled… or because of his resentment towards alpha, sigma, or beta men for getting all the women.
Gamma male traits make a man an open book. Anyone knows what’s going on in his mind. He doesn’t have a mysterious aura, authority, or status.
While courting women, their sense of entitlement creeps out women. They overvalue themselves and act like they are a trophy to show off. He believes that since he does all the gentle romantic things, he’s the best. That attitude puts off any woman.
This is also partly due to his intelligence. He shows off his better IQ to catch women and boom! Nobody wants him.
8. He’s a bit delusional
The gamma men suffer from delusions of grandeur. It helps them deal with the bitter truth about their status being so low in the socio-hierarchy.
They often have a false narrative to feel more confident about themselves and deny reality. They believe they are secretly the true king and women fail to notice them. After repeated rejections, they can continue living with this mentality.
They perceive themselves as the “actual alphas” of their circle. All because their circle has too many people of low intelligence. They are surrounded by people who don’t know how to reach the pinnacle.
They also believe that their experiences of being rejected make them morally superior. They feel they are much better than the ones that have a good dating experience.
9. He avoids conflicts
The gamma men just can’t deal with any scale of the conflict. No, don’t assume they are like beta males. Beta men avoid conflicts to not hurt others. They completely avoid it to maintain peace.
But gamma men don’t have what it takes to confront someone directly. So, they only attack others with passive aggression.
If they get belittled, they don’t like to go on the offense from the front. Instead, they play the dirty game of being passive-aggressive. They show the world that they are totally cool with something. But they also make slightly upsetting actions.
This is the most distinct difference from alpha males. Alphas like to attack from the front and not hide it.
10. He fears failure
This is another obvious striking trait of gamma men. They are extremely afraid of taking risks and failing. So, they hesitate to take any kind of chance. However, every step of life is full of risks.
You get a job and you risk your mental health and confidence. You study and get new skills for a better job. Then, you risk not having any talent and wasting your time, energy, and money.
There’s risk in every step of life. But they avoid the ones that can actually help them rise and shine. So, they can’t advance much in their job, business, romance, or social life. They lose the best opportunities due to their irrational fear.
11. He lies to himself intentionally
The gamma man isn’t happy with his personality at all. He often spins lies to help himself feel better. This is also so he can have a reason to avoid any improvement.
When a woman rejects him, he narrates that, “they are sluts and gold diggers. So, they can’t get attracted to them”. They console themselves by chanting, “I deserve far better” to themselves.
When a man has a better dating life, he calls them a playboy or sugar daddy. He thinks, “Nobody loves them for their true worth anyways”.
They can go to any extent to hide their shame. Even if they wrongfully call others names, they don’t mind that.
12. He’s content with his feminine side
Gamma men are known to be in more contact with their feminine side and exhibit it often. They aren’t the rough and crude males of society like alpha and sigma males. They don’t act like the “conventional man”.
Instead, they unapologetically show their feminine side. They reject the idea that men can only have masculine traits. They don’t feel self-conscious about their gender or sexuality. Rather, they accept themselves completely as they are even if society judges them.
They might indulge in self-care sessions even in front of their guy friends. They don’t care if people categorize that as girly. If they think they’ll do something, they make it happen!
13. The concept of women is out of his grasp
Vox Day says that though gamma men have feminine minds, they don’t understand females that well. He thought it was strange that they don’t know a woman’s desires.
Gamma men believe that their affection is valuable. So, if a woman doesn’t fall head over heels for him or doesn’t have mutual feelings, she’s not intelligent.
They feel so entitled that they don’t even understand a human being’s emotions. Just because their own emotions and romantic gestures are so intense, they expect their crush to be ready to sleep with them.
They find flirting, engaging, connecting, and gradual sexual escalation pretty complicated. So, they don’t have the patience to court their partner the right way.
14. He loves adventures
The gamma male likes to follow an adventurous path everywhere. It’s not just about exploring a new city or playing survival games in the forest.
He desires an adventure in all paths of life. He defies everyone’s thoughts to explore the world. He doesn’t want to follow in others’ footsteps just to please others.
So, he may often avoid others’ advice to build his life on his own terms.
However, this doesn’t imply that he’ll take risks. As mentioned before, gamma males are risk-avoidant.
15. He’s the “follower”
Gamma males don’t desire to be the leader of the pack. They are low-key happy about following the simple orders of the sigmas and alphas.
This is also because they don’t want to take risks at all. They’ll do as they are told and avoid taking any kind of responsibility for it. Since they are good at their job, they only try to do their job perfectly and step aside.
He won’t ever make decisions by himself even if he gets the chance. He might even refuse a leadership position to stay safe.
16. Self-awareness is his strength
The gamma male understands his actions and he never does anything mistakenly. He’s aware of how his actions affect others and themselves. If this trait is used wisely, it can help them progress in their life. However, the unwise application can worsen their life.
It’s often said that when alpha men become self-aware, they become gammas. This makes them more likable.
17. He can turn clingy
Since the gamma male is a hopeless romantic, some women might feel touched. However, if this trait isn’t under control, it can go out of hand. He can become clingy and possessive about his partner.
Especially, if his partner isn’t equally romantic, this trouble arises. For instance, the partner has their own life and wants time to focus on life. But he’ll always think about them and want to spend more time together.
One thing’s for sure, he won’t become abusive if they can’t reach a middle ground. So, the partner is safe from potential harm. But the relationship will become brittle and the partner will seek ways to get away from him.
18. He’s pretty sensitive
Men with gamma personality types easily get hurt by rejections, criticism, and any other negative emotion. On the other hand, they feel excited and cherished when they are validated, appreciated, and accepted.
They are excessively sensitive to people’s emotions, perceptions, and thoughts about them. Since the gamma males are empaths, they can catch on to others’ negative emotions pretty soon and feel demoralized.
Though they only support others with their empathic abilities. It only brings them misfortune in the end.
19. He thinks he can’t be wrong
Since he is intelligent and the best in what he does, he’s bound to feel proud. However, this pride often takes the form of ego. He starts believing that he can never be or do wrong. He believes that his intelligence makes him perfect in everything.
His thoughts bring him self-confidence and he obviously feels good about himself. So, he becomes intoxicated with this feeling and doesn’t mind when it takes an evil form. He only becomes arrogant from this confidence.
On the other hand, he never uses his self-confidence positively. He won’t put it to good use in life. So, nobody gets to know about their strengths. Everyone only notices his drawbacks.
20. He feels that life is unfair
The gamma male has his own beliefs of right and wrong. He believes he’s always right while the people that oppose him are always wrong.
He sticks to his own beliefs about these things. He perceives himself as a perfectly nice guy. He believes that the good guys deserve the best things and must be prioritized in every walk of life.
Even if a good guy isn’t that capable, he must still be the king. Women must only chase these men for being good and not desire anything like financial stability or security.
He doesn’t agree with reality and says that the world is unfair. He plays the victim and avoids responsibility for his actions that led to failure.
A word from ThePleasantPersonality
The gamma males are certainly intelligent and understanding. But they can also be a handful at times. So, if you’re a gamma male, stop lying to yourself with false narratives. Don’t demand too much from others.
But if you know a gamma male, communicate strategically to talk them out of their delusions. However, don’t demand them to change outright.
Whether you’re a gamma male or know one, the journey will be tough. But be patient and things are bound to improve!
Article Sources
1. https://theadultman.com/love-and-lust/gamma-male/
2. https://www.coaching-online.org/gamma-male/
3. https://subconsciousservant.com/the-gamma-male/
