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Academia’s latest invention: ‘petro-masculinity’
American Thinker ^ | 11 Mar, 2023 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 03/11/2023 9:30:02 AM PST by MtnClimber

Are you a White man? Do you own a personal vehicle and drive around as you please? Well, you’re a racist, and you’re killing the planet.

For a member of the academic class, there’s a burden to bring something intellectually-worthwhile to the table. When you have nothing to offer (like the vast majority of college professors), you simply invent new scholarly-ish terms.

Instead of “pedophile” or “child predator”, academia offers us the softer “minor-attracted person.”

Instead of “sexual mutilation” or “medical malpractice”, we get “gender-affirming care.”

And now, drum roll please…Cara Daggett, a professor at Virginia Tech and a “climate sociologist” unveils her latest literary horror: “petro-masculinity”.

(Apparently, all it takes to signal academic genius as a leftist is to smash a couple of buzzwords together separated by a hyphen.)

Earlier this week, Canada’s National Observer ran an essay titled “White men are the super spreaders of climate denialism” under the “news” tab…yes, seriously. The author, Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, attempted to unravel the newest offshoot of “toxic” masculinity and writes:

Researchers have found a tight relationship between harmful forms of masculinity, right-wing extremism and the refusal to deal with the climate crisis. Fostered by the fossil fuel industry, this confluence has been dubbed ‘petro-masculinity’ by Cara Daggett, a Virginia Tech professor and climate sociologist, to describe a form of masculinity where using fossil fuels is a way to express an individualistic and patriarchal type of masculinity.

(In an ironic turn of events, “researchers” in this context is also a euphemism for idle, leftist, societal freeloaders.)

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: wokeism
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1 posted on 03/11/2023 9:30:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Lord please forgive me for driving my car in “Race 1” mode.


2 posted on 03/11/2023 9:30:16 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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proud petro-masculinist here

stop oppressing me

i demand reparations


3 posted on 03/11/2023 9:32:34 AM PST by SteveH
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To: MtnClimber

Democrat Kiddie Rapers don’t like pickup trucks.


4 posted on 03/11/2023 9:32:46 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: MtnClimber

We should not ‘dis’ academia by including any leftist idiots into the set.


5 posted on 03/11/2023 9:34:37 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


6 posted on 03/11/2023 9:35:26 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: MtnClimber

White males are despised for everything they have done, and many things they didn’t do. It’s been suggested we shouldn’t be allowed to vote, own property or even exist. Remember what John Galt did with his invention? There’s a lesson there.


7 posted on 03/11/2023 9:35:35 AM PST by Spok
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To: MtnClimber

All real men love Internal Combustion Engines


8 posted on 03/11/2023 9:37:57 AM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: MtnClimber

Better a petro masculinist than an electro homosexualist.


9 posted on 03/11/2023 9:39:14 AM PST by libh8er
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To: MtnClimber

I’m building a 460 to put in my truck. I guess I’m a terrorist.


10 posted on 03/11/2023 9:57:14 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

I could not care less what a climate socialist thinks.


11 posted on 03/11/2023 10:05:56 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: MtnClimber

A “climate sociologist” has a new term of disparagement for people she’s decided she doesn’t like. “Look at me, I invented a new word!”


12 posted on 03/11/2023 10:08:30 AM PST by Billthedrill
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I’m building a 460 to put in my truck. I guess I’m a terrorist.

Maybe worse.

13 posted on 03/11/2023 10:27:58 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Spok

Real men don’t eat quiche! ;-)


14 posted on 03/11/2023 10:29:39 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: MtnClimber

There can’t be that many of these woketards.
I really doubt they’d be missed. Just saying.


15 posted on 03/11/2023 10:42:28 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t Cara Daggett what this bimbo professor thinks.


16 posted on 03/11/2023 10:52:21 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: SteveH

A Proud 84 year old senior citizen-petro-masculinist ICE driver here for 68+ years.


17 posted on 03/11/2023 11:19:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (https://www Democrats Have All ready Won the 2024 Election, Regardless of Whom, Either Party Runs!!!)
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To: Da Coyote

Sadly though, so called academia at it’s best.


18 posted on 03/11/2023 11:22:14 AM PST by ealgeone
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One Startling Scene: Tracy Letts in 'Ford v Ferrari' - The New York Times

Sounds like she needs this.

19 posted on 03/11/2023 11:23:51 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Disambiguator

A long time ago I had a work truck with a 460. F-250 with a 4.11 rear end, two 18 gallon tanks and an additional 50 gallon tank in the bed. It was a beast. Pulled like a tank.


20 posted on 03/11/2023 11:28:52 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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