It's not solely limited to their capabilities in objective morality. It is this image, in your mother you never see the slutty and immoral side of her that which fuels the NAWALT myth. No matter how many "whores" you encounter, you still have the example of a Unicorn back in your mind.

Unless one dis-proves the validity of that example, will never be able to truly conform to AWALT. It's basically impossible. The problem arises because men mostly always see their mothers as inherently virtuous. Sure they make some mistakes along the way. Some probably do many mistakes along the way. But they still retain their virtuous image. This is the first woman you get to see in your life as a man, and you see her repeatedly and very closely. At the beginning you are easy to be outsmarted by her, which then probably and mostly continues as a habit. Add in the fact that a mother's love is truly resembling the love man naturally can have towards a woman later in his life, an unconditional love. We men naturally create models and use comparisons to form our thoughts. One can not disprove such a theory (NAWALT) with a seemingly valid example that proves it.

Therefore to kill the beta one must first internalise that AWALT principles include his own mother too, no matter how hard it is to accept that. A man must also understand that the love he will recieve from his mother can not be gotten elsewhere (perhaps from a non-biological mother figure, it may be possible but just theorising here). It comes down to three aspects basically:

-Only his mother can love him unconditionally.

-He never or rarely sees the sexual side of his mother.

-He is tricked by his mother's intellectual and/or moral capacity, as his capabilities technically do not surpass hers perhaps until early 20s. I think this is for the simple reason that male body continues to develop further than female mind, but for that he needs time to outgrow a woman's mind. Before he surpassed a woman's latest stage, he can not exactly outsmart her.

I think a good rite of passage would be to make this realisation happen through some form of practice.

Note: This by the way, does not mean to hate your mother. Just see her in it's true form. Appreciate her for what she is. Don't be a momma's boy but don't be a dick either. But this seperation from mother is an important step into becoming a true adult. There are men in their 50s who still did not surpass this stage. It is extra hard for them when that mother dies. I talked with a 50 aged man in the park today, who told me his mother had died and he had no one to talk this to. The guy was probably not even married, though there are many examples where the guy is both married and a momma's boy.