Academia’s latest invention: ‘petro-masculinity’

American Thinker ^ | 11 Mar, 2023 | Olivia Murray

[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.)

[JimRed]

For a member of the academic class, there’s a burden to bring something intellectually-worthwhile to the table.

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

[BradyLS]

Wow! I never knew a 2006 Carolla could wield so much power!

CHOKE ON IT, LEFTARDS!

[Scrambler Bob]

Petro -

That is like oil, and lubrication -

So is a KY user a Petro - bad person?

[Disambiguator]

460s like to drink, so that extra capacity was useful, I’m sure.

[Texas resident]

Yep. I pulled a 30 foot gooseneck usually with at least 20K lbs on it. Made runs from El Paso to Phoenix and back. Sucked the gas, but it would run 80mph easily.

[Disambiguator]

The one I’m building is a “warmed over” EFI version. I have to keep it smog-legalish right now, so I can’t go too crazy.

[tet68]

You got something against Petro-patriarchy ? Hahahah.

These morons are strangling the US. while China builds
new petro infrastructure.

Truly, academia is the mother lode of morons.

[GOPJ]

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.”

Soon the terms 'minor attracted person' and 'gender affirming care' will be considered offensives. "A rose by any other name - sh*t by any other name..." eventually WOKE words will stink to high heaven. Then they'll try to change them again.