A new survey with data culled from dating apps shows that for lots of people, climate denial is a dating no-no. Daters, it seems, just don't want to go out with someone who is afflicted with petromasculinity.
It's not a disease, or even a disorder, no, this condition is one based entirely in "a certain sort of red-blooded, heteronormative, nationalist masculinity" and the men who are afflicted with it are often not only climate deniers, but have authoritarian political views and also are sexist.
The term was found in the Journal of International Studies circa 2018, which claimed that a handful of "resentments," including "climate denial, racism and misogyny" are actually intertwined in a system that upholds "white patriarchal rule." So if you don't think the entire economy needs to be upended suddenly and from the top down in service to an apocalyptic fantasy, you're a racist, woman hater who believes white men should have authoritarian rule over everyone else.
"Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism," writes Cara Daggett. The Anthropocene is what anthropologists call the current geological age, in which humans are the dominant force on the planet. Apparently wanting humans to rule the world is totally anti-climate.
The National Review pulled reporting from The Hill that showed dating apps OK Cupid and Tinder both report that "opinions surrounding climate change are the biggest 'dealbreaker' out of several topics when it comes to finding a match on" dating apps.
OKCupid found that 90 percent of their users, when surveyed, were really concerned that the person they were interested in romantically care about climate change. The survey doesn't seem to have asked if the prospective daters are more interested in people who are activists about climate change, simply ones that are willing to recycle and do the basic bougie bits. In other words, it's not about doing, it's about virtue signaling, the perception of doing.
The New Republic writes that "climate change has become central to many people's emotional lives" for some reason, and says that those primarily men for whom climate change is not a key component of their inner emotional life are not suitable mates.
Apparently, resilience and not being taken in by apocalyptic fad theories of the end of the world is not sexy enough for the emotionally vapid, quivering folx who base their sense of self worth and security on whether or not they remembered to compost their banana peels.
The New Republic writes that this "suggests that, slowly, new generations of Americans are rejecting petromasculinity: the climate denial, authoritarian politics, and sexism that are often too inextricably linked."
That's right, if you don't think the world is coming to a crashing end in (checks watch) 7 years, like John Kerry and AOC want you to, you're probably a racist, fascist, sexist, too.
It's no surprise that "women were more likely than men to consider climate concern a necessary quality in a mate." Women have become horribly confused between trying to like the kind of men they're told by culture to like, while actually still pretty much liking men who are masculine and likely don't carry little purses to the market.
"The fact that there's a gender gap isn't surprising," The New Republic writes. "After all, climate denial and a certain aggressive cartoon masculinity have long been deeply intertwined." It's key to note that this is a study about what people find personally concerning, and for these women who checked off the box that yes, this really matters in a super serious way, they don't seem to care if this man is a man who puts family, friends, and personal life first, they want him to be worried about global issues over which he has very little control.
These ladies know that American recycling programs and reusable bag scenarios and reducing our collective carbon footprint in the United States will have very little global impact, yeah? Maybe not.
The New Republic attributes this the large amounts of "propaganda" that have "done into this gender disparity," notably advertisements for big trucks, "the bigger the better," and goes on to say that men who make fun of school drop-out Greta Thunberg and New York's apoplectic congresswoman AOC are exhibited a "hostility to feminism (and outspoken women)." In all likelihood, these men are simply hostile toward stupidity wielded by those with a stranglehold on political power.
"Fossil fuels have long been associated with a certain sort of red-blooded, heteronormative, nationalist masculinity," they write, as though there's something wrong with any of these things individually, and that when combined they spell the end of civilization as we know it.
Fossil fuels are responsible for the biggest decline in global poverty rates ever in the history of the world, seeing women more easily able to obtain educations and enter the work force. Fossil fuels, in many ways, made feminism possible. The real problem with petromasculinity is that anyone thinks there's a problem with the men who are being slandered with this latest man-hating moniker.
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