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This is what "alpha male" humans don't understand:
One "alpha male" may be stronger than any female, but almost no one is stronger than 5+ individuals working together.
They all dream of being able to impose their will on women, and never think about how that'll end up. Which is with a group of individuals banding together against the "alpha male", biting his testicles off, and then engaging in "genital to genital rubbing" on top of his unconscious soon to be corpse.
Every society is built on the threat of violence if you don't follow social norms. There's no inherently peaceful primate society, just some that don't need to routinely follow thru to enforce their social norms.
Since humans are primates this checks out.