The conclusion of this article left me feeling quite annoyed. It suggests ways that men can keep caring about the environment while staying "masculine". A lot of it is about managing feelings by emphasizing the ways that they can stay dominant while having vaguely more sustainable behaviours. Like "marketing EVs as major man machines that can charge drills or become generators if a storm cuts off power". It's exhausting.
https://www.dw.com/en/who-says-caring-about-the-climate-is-unmanly-not-this-ex-fighter-pilot/a-76779473 #climate
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Is masculinity really so fragile? Like, imagine having an entire part of your personality so weak that it can't survive without some kind of monster truck to prop it up.
We need to deconstruct this, no continue propping it up. I am surrounded by men who don't need their gender affirmed over and over by society at the cost of the environment. Why are we catering to morons who need to think of fossil fuels to grow an erection?
@juliette@mastodon.green “alpha” males are even more fragile than you can imagine. They’re basically 2-3 year olds in mental and emotional development.
@jaypeach53 our 2-year-old has noticed that mom tends to drink coffee from a specific cup, and dad from another, and when we occasionally switch cups, they get OUTRAGED and make us switch back to our correct cups.
I imagine this is how gender roles are created. A 2-year-old noticed parent 1 wore skirts and parent 2 wore trousers and decided this would forever extend to all of humanity and never grew beyond that.
@juliette THIS, every word of it.
May I just add that, in addition to setting the planet on fire for everyone, that sort of insecure man is just SO TIRING to be around
(even for a cis white male like myself. I can hardly imagine what it’s like for less privileged people.)
@slothrop For some reason, these people's self-declared definition of masculinity has been accepted as the real one in media, when as far as I can tell, most men just want to have a hobby or two and hang out with their family and/or pets.
It's like when "women's media" pushes a narrative about whatever new fashion has been concocted in the 3rd circle of hell, and most of us are just like "I'll rewear my cerulean blue sweater from 12 years ago, tyvm"
