If you ever wanted a portrait of what a Gamma male looks like… here you go:
The Harry Potter actor, 29, starred in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings opposite Erin where their characters share an intimate scene together.
In the movie, Erin’s character Gwendolyn performs oral sex on Daniel’s character in a library.
Speaking on People TV’s Couch Surfing series, Daniel told how he now views the scene as a ‘sweet record’ of the pair meeting.
He said: ‘It’ll be a hell of a story to tell our kids one day because of what our characters do with each other.
‘Our characters are meeting and flirting with each other, so there is this kind of sweet record of us just meeting for the first time and flirting.’
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Erin previously opened up about her romance with Daniel, gushing that he ‘innately understands her’.
She told People: ‘One of the first things we bonded over was how much we really love what we do and there’s something that’s really beautiful and really lovely about being with someone who just innately understands that about you.
‘He helps me make self-tapes sometimes. He’s a great reader, by the way. We’re both incredibly supportive of the other person’s career.’
Daniel also made a rare confession about their romance in a previous interview with Playboy, admitting their attraction was instant for him.
Revealing that the chemistry in one of their romantic Kill Your Darlings scenes was completely genuine on his part, he gushed: ‘That’s a wonderful record of us flirting for the first time. There’s no acting going on, not from my end, anyway.’
There are quite a few Gamma tells going on here. Let us start with the disparate appearances of the happy couple.
Take a look at that picture up there. It is immediately and painfully obvious that young Mr. Radcliffe – he’s not even 30 yet, which makes me feel positively ancient by comparison, now that I’m in my mid-thirties – is batting way below his potential.
Look at Daniel Radcliffe now. He’s a good-looking guy, highly successful, exceptionally well-known all over the world. There are literally millions of girls who would happily give their eye-teeth for a chance to sleep with him, never mind being his girlfriend, because they grew up watching the Harry Potter films.
And he settled for a girl who looks like more of a dude than he is. He stands at 165cm, and she stands at 170cm. She’s a full two inches taller than him, and that’s before she puts on heels.
Oh, and by the way, Erin Darke is 33, and looks like this on a really good day:
On a regular day, though, she looks like this:
How much do y’all want to be that Ms. Manjaw up there is also a feminist and/or a vegan?
Oh. Whoops. Never mind. No point making that bet. I don’t know if she’s a vegan (God help her beau) but I’d say it’s pretty likely.
Here’s a tip for young men everywhere:
Don’t date women who are taller than you. And don’t date women who are older than you.
I have never done the first. I have, to my considerable regret, done the second. (I will have to tell that story someday. It never really went anywhere, at least for me, and was never a true relationship in any way. But her life went in ways that were rather unexpected for all concerned. Let’s just say that the phrase “cruel irony” exists for a reason.) So I’m talking from experience when I tell you that dating a woman 4 years your senior is a very bad idea, especially if she’s in her mid-to-late thirties.
However, dating a man-jawed feminist is not, by itself, an indication of Gammatude. There is more involved than merely this.
Dating a man-jawed feminist who did a sex scene with you where she gave your character a blow-job, and then saying words to the effect that “it’ll be an interesting story to tell the kids”, IS a major Gamma tell.
Those are the words of a man with not a whole lot of self-respect, who doesn’t really understand that he has a lot of options, and who thinks that having kids with a girl who gave him a (simulated) hummer in a public library for all the world to see is going to be a great wife and mum.
Now, the thing is, I actually wish Daniel Radcliffe well as a man and an actor. I hope he does very well for himself in all aspects of his life. I just think that he’s short-selling himself.
But why is Daniel Radcliffe likely to be a Gamma?
Without knowing (or wanting to know) anything about his childhood and formative years, one is left with the work that he did as Harry Potter. And I think most Pottheads (heh) would agree that the very young Daniel Radcliffe was pretty much the perfect choice for the titular character of J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series.
Why? Because, as anyone who has seen the movies (yep) or read the books (nope) can relate, Harry Potter is a massive Gamma.
If you don’t know why, take a look at our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord’s (PBUH) description of what a Gamma is in his socio-sexual hierarchy. Or take a look at this post. Or, if you’re a visually oriented type, watch this video:
In fiction, Gammas are always – without fail – portrayed as Extremely Special, for no discernible reason whatsoever. They are the Secret Kings with amazing gifts that they were simply given, and which make them go from the very bottom of the pecking order, to the very top, in a single bound.
If you know much about the Harry Potter films, you know that this is pretty much exactly what happens to Harry himself. He is special because his mother’s love shielded him from the killing spell of Lord Voldemort, and he grew up with a scar on his head, and that somehow makes him some sort of Horcrux, one of seven different Macguffins which have to be gathered and destroyed in order to weaken the Dark Lord and finally kill him through various convoluted plot twists and turns which frankly I couldn’t give a toss about.
The point is, Harry Potter is a fictional Gamma. And if you look at Daniel Radcliffe’s portrayal of him, especially when he was a wee little kiddie and therefore had all of the acting skill of a plank of wood, it is very obvious that he was basically being himself when inserted into a fantasy world.
And the result of that Gammatude is on quite painful display above with his lady.
I genuinely do wish Mr. Radcliffe the best in life. From all evidence he seems like a pretty decent chap, beyond the fact that he’s a massive Gamma and therefore is prey to all of the problematic traits of that type.
I just think he could do a lot better.
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