(h/t raining sky) A feminist professor at Virginia Tech University is warning that fossil fuels are contributing to a warped sense of “masculine identity” and “authoritarianism” among men.
Cara Daggett, who teaches classes on politics and global security at Virginia Tech, penned her criticism of petro-masculinity in an essay “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire” for the most recent issue of Millennium: Journal of International Studies.
Writing in response to the 2016 election, Daggett coins the term “petro-masculinity” to describe what she sees as a convergence of “climate change, a threatened fossil fuel system, and an increasingly fragile Western hypermasculinity.”
“Petro-masculinity, like fossil fuel systems, arguably has global dimensions,” Daggett asserts. “However, like other masculinities, petro-masculinity should be understood as manifesting in multiple, and locally specific, ways.”
“Petro-masculinity approaches masculinity as a socially constructed identity that emerges ‘within a gender order that defines masculinity in opposition to femininity, and in so doing, sustains a power relation between men and women as groups,’” she adds, quoting other academic literature on the topic.
Unlike the “hegemonic masculinity” of the past—which is a general term to describe masculinity under patriarchy—Daggett claims that petro-masculinity is a recent phenomenon, specifically triggered by global warming.
Petro-masculinity, she claims, ultimately aims “to defend the endangered status quo, entrenching the petrocultures that have historically propped up Anglo-European fossil-burning men.”
“In this context, burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience, a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order,” Daggett argues.
According to the professor, men’s desire to burn fossil fuels can also explain the concept of misogyny.
“Fossil-fuelled life has always been violent,” she says, later adding that “fossil violence” should “also be appreciated as a misogynist tactic, if we follow Kate Manne to think of misogyny not as an individual belief—the hatred of women—but instead as a set of practices.”
Prior to her essay on petro-masculinity, Daggett’s most notable publication was a 2015 article titled, “Drone Disorientations: How ‘Unmanned’ Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War.”
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It is amazing how liberals recycle their cheap tactics. Cara Daggett is basically saying that use of fossil fuels is for cheap masculinity and therefore can be dispensed with. A few decades ago the liberals seriously made the same claim about guns.
Perhaps these people make such claims not only to further their political cause, but because they have no idea what real masculinity is.
Fossil fuels = cheap energy. If we had never had cheap energy we would never have been able to develop society to a point where we could fund post-secondary education for so many people. Nor developed the enormous variety of modern conveniences, medical breakthroughs and poverty reduction measures provided to society. Only a few elite would have such luxury as time for studying areas of higher learning.
Imagine a world without fossil fuels. In that world the focus would be on hunting, gathering and subsistence farming. It would be a world of tribalism, where you protect your community’s assets from those who would take it from you and so strength in numbers would determine who would survive. Humans’ sole focus, in fact, would be on survival and that survival would require brute strength. In that society, all the currently demeaned measures of masculinity would be the ONLY thing standing between humans and certain extinction.
If post-secondary areas of study are not going to teach people how to think logically anymore, we should defund them. They are useless and there are far more important things to spend (or save) our tax dollars on.
Modern enviromentalists are a sign of the stupidity of liberal ecology idiots that started back in the 1970’s with the first Earth Day and groups like Friends of the Earth and the Zero Population wackos and Paul Ehrlich
And there was me thinking it caused rampant stupidity in feminists.
We certainly don’t want men to be masculine. (She’s kidding, right? Her problem is probably that she’s not a man and is bitter about it. We used to call it p***s envy. Actually, masculine men don’t have that problem. We’re happy that women are feminine, (and unlike Ms. Daggett). Like most of the nation’s largest hate group, the Democratic Party, You have to have someone to hate to be a good liberal. I feel sorry for them.
A conservative black commentator made an excellent observation about the Democratic Party. They deliberately fractionalize our society. It is unions vs industry, at one time Jews vs everyone else, women vs men, and each ethic minority vs the entire society. The Democrats then put themselves forward as the best representative of the groups that they have created and get their votes.
Can a run for the Democrats Socialist Party be far off ? Men also buy hot cars to oick up women which contributes to population growth . Not a very happy thought to eco anarchists and their population extermination agenda masked as saving the planet .
Can’t wait for her breath taking analysis of why women are attracted to fossil fuel piggy’s. Maybe they instinctively go for mates that source and use energy so they don’t freeze .
She is right about one thing fighting over the last lump of coal is going to get violent .
Cara Daggett another nut that has fallen from the Nut Tree just as rediculous as Bill Nye and his idiotic rant a gaainst Livestock
“According to the professor, men’s desire to burn fossil fuels can also explain the concept of misogyny.”
Is she talkin bout premium grades or everthin including the weasel piss blends??? ;o)
So men’s desire to burn fossil fuels explains men’s dislike of, contempt for and our outright ingrained prejudice against women.
That does seem likely since other academaniacal’s have concluded that burning fossil fuels also explains jingoism, excessive patriotism, blind patriotism, excessive nationalism, sectarianism, isolationism, excessive loyalty, flag-waving, xenophobia, racism, racial prejudice, ethnocentrism, ethnocentricity, partisanship, partiality, prejudice, bias, discrimination, intolerance, bigotry queer fear and an excessive reverence for God, the Constitution, the rule of law and gun ownership.
This is not a one-off from this twit. Can’t imagine sending any kids to such a school. Here’s another great one written by her.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1075317
The lady professor would have an instant heart attack due to the level of testosterone if she ever stepped inside a bodybuilding gym.
Cara Daggett is a kill joy.
Rednecks do burn outs with their half-tons as part of a mating ritual, and she don’t wanna play.
Goes to show how batshit insane the leftwing is.