alpha status: Alphas need love, too
Mack is as close to the ideal of a “short term Lover” as can be. Women do lust for him and have trouble inhibiting their urges when he is around because his bad boy-ishness triggers the dark side of female desire.
But what helps him to get blow jobs from married women in the backroom of a club while their husbands wait at the bar, is the very same conglomerate of manly traits that makes women leave right after.
The profound lack of anything signaling Provider qualities is a warning sign for women when thinking long term.