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Conservative author and commentator Mark Steyn reacted Thursday to a new climate change theory asserting that toxic masculinity is to blame for global warming.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Steyn discussed a new study from Dr. Aaron Brough of Utah State University that concluded that behavior attempting to reverse climate change is a mostly feminine trait, and that men don’t engage in such behaviors as often because of some responsibility to their sense of self.
“Well, I confess I was at first skeptical,” Steyn said. “If I understand this thesis, my insecurities about my masculinity are causing rising sea levels in the Maldives. And at first I didn’t really buy that, but as I think about it, I think in fact it’s actually one of the least visible climate science thesis of recent years. I’m kind of on board with where they are going on this.” (RELATED: Not Enough Dems Showed Up At This Climate Hearing So Republicans Pulled This Power Move)
“I think, in fact, it’s very difficult to tell, with social science as with climate science, whether or not it’s an ingenious parody,” Steyn continued. “It’s almost impossible to tell, in fact, I think this goes back to, — I think the important point here is toxic masculinity. They are saying that they did a survey here. This is the kind of hardcore science behind it in which they gave someone a Walmart gift card and it was pink and had lots of flowery printed on it, looked a bit girlie and sissy and milquetoast pantywaist.”
“The guy giving this gift card went out and bought very macho masculine things that melt the polar ice caps. If you give him something, he is so impressionable—this toxic masculine male—if you give him a masculine-type card, he thinks, ‘Oh, that’s really nice,’ and he goes out and buys a Sierra Club tote bag and saves the planet. This is the kind of social science that the higher education institutions of America are spending a fortune investigating.”
The research included 2,000 participants across seven different experiments. One experiment required participants to remember an act that they considered to be good for the environment and then were asked to answer whether or not they felt masculine or feminine after performing that act.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced earlier this year that there were only 12 years left to solve the global warming crisis, and many women are so afraid of climate change that they are deciding not to have kids to bring them into a world that is ending.
The issue is reaching into the 2020 presidential primary as well. Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris announced that increased wildfires and hurricanes are proof that climate change is here.
“Let’s speak truth — climate change is real and it is happening now,” Harris said at her first presidential rally in Oakland, California, in January. “Everybody here knows from wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east to floods and droughts in the heartland, but we’re not going to buy the lie, we’re going to act based on science fact, not science fiction.”
HT/Yooper
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All the talk of “toxic masculinity” is toxic femininity.
Cease and desist all such talk, now.
I’m white and in my sixties and my toxic masculinity is causing me to wonder about the data showing Arctic sea ice extent nosediving.
My first thought is that there’s some equipment malfunction. My second thought is that maybe someone’s faking the data, and then my third thought is to wonder if the Arctic sea ice extent is actually nosediving and, if so, why? Anyone know?
…. and then lastly, did anyone trademark the two-letter acronym for toxic masculinity?
Toxic masculinity may need a doctor prescription..
Surgery is the answer – speaking as a veterinary surgeon.😊
“Anyone know?”
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Yup it is called natural variation.
Oop, there it is, Oop there it is!!!!!! Ever Body cabbage patch!!!!!!(if you need it explained you are too young, or did not pay attention in the 1980s)
Oh, and I know ark can Cabbage Patch, I’ve seen him do it!
Just wow, Hammer meet Nail:
From the Google………….
Lets take it apart….
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Does this mean lack of social skill, memory fails, poor sense of humour, required use of the ‘sarc’ tag and insult hurling, as for example at Griff
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And the number of girl commentators around is…. how many. More or less than the boys. By what margin/ratio
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And how many times around her inside the last week have we seen the word ‘dominate’
Why exactly is it required that the US is the Dominant Military, The dominant World energy driller, fracker, supplier refiner.
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Second only to the naked spite & venom aimed at Griff, lets look at how girls like Sarah Myhre, Nancy Pelosi and the hapless babe Alexandria. Its toe-curling to read here sometimes.
Apart from girls having systematically mistreated for at least the last 1,000 years. Hence why they have short legs, fat backsides hence have a funny walk and couldn’t deliver their own babies until medicine came along with antiseptics, anaesthetics and surgery. See now why high heeled shoes were invented – to make them *look* like they were supposed to = tall & slender instead of short & fat.
Hence why 15 out of 19 Salem Witches were female – forced to eat mouldy corn. Thanks lads.
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Aimed at anyone who doesn’t agree with you, Gore, Obama, Mann, McKibben etc etc etc.
OK, you can disagree with them and mention that BUT, to do it constantly and without very much provocation? Remember, The Human Animal cannot lie.
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6) Obviously not applicable here or online generally but…
My example = Easter Island.
After the boys & girls parted company (forcibly via Dutch sailors removing sex slaves), what did the boys do?
Trashed the place. Literally. Just like Lord of the Flies
You know me and what I’m gonna say..
It is not actually the boys’ fault. There is nothing intrinsically and or genetically wrong with them.
The fault lies in their diet, what they do eat, what they don’t eat and actually should.
Also what they *should* have eaten in the first 24 months post-partum – breast milk vs formula (fake) milk
All of those symptoms described above would be exhibited by folks affected with Kwashiorkor followed by a diet revolving around sugar mixed with alcohol and now cannabis = potent depressants the lot of them.
Yes Tom in Florida – it *does*need a doctor’s prescription. Thank you for nailing that.
= No carbohydrate and no booze
Yet the doctors say what – alcohol may actually be good for you?
And most senior doctors and their teachers are…..boys or girls?
The TM trademark was fixed and assigned a very very long time ago.
not going to reply to all points but women here? more than many other sites that arent homecrap and mediadrivel I reckon.
you might admit that not many women are willing to actually READ or discuss climate issues unless its PRO/greenist parroting I have maybe 2 gfriends at most who occasionally read what i send and ask or debate.
homophobia? well I sure as hell dont agree with gore man and the rest of that clique of liars n fearmongering dross. I quite like men on a good day:-) but not those t*rds.
social regressive?
is that anyone whos not on the PCness bandwagon and into the trans kiddies lbgqwhatever hysteria?
guess I score high there too.
naughty girl:-) roflmao
as for clothing choices a LOT of that is pushed BY women to women, and the worst criticism is FROM women.
by this stage of the ongoing develpment any women who cant stand up and call a bloke a fool or whatever he deserves AND take the same back if deserved also is an epic fail if you consider the 70yrs or so of feminist indoctrination via schools unis and elsewhere. if you cant fix your own tap washers or change your own tyres etc then youre NOT even beginning to be able to demand equal anything.
Climate change in a progressive context always eventually converges to socialism.
My hypothesis: Men are causing climate change on purpose so woman are forced to wear less clothes.
YES!!!! Well, some women. If the gals could just get on board to make “some” men wear less we could have a winning ticket here.
Most men should wear more – I believe I speak for most women on this.
Oh, with you there! In that vein, why is it the women protesting about going topless are the last ones anybody would want to see topless?!?!?
Global Warming Is Now A ‘Women ’s Issue’ Due To ‘Ecofeminism
Environmentalists are increasingly claiming that global warming is a “women’s issue” and that the world needs “eco-feminism” as a path forward.
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Ecofeminists believe that women and nature are bonded by traditionally “feminine” values and their shared history of oppression by a patriarchal Western society. This patriarchal society is built on four intersectional pillars of sexism, racism, class exploitation, and environmental destruction.
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/global-warming-is-now-a-womens-issue-due-to-ecofeminism/
… many women are so afraid of climate change that they are deciding not to have kids to bring them into a world that is ending.
OR, they might just want the time and money for their self-indulgent, carbon-dioxide-intensive frequent flyer trips to Paris, where they pretend to be French, because the puerile Hollywood created myths about all things French match the image in which they want to see themselves.
It’s the other way around. Naive wome buy the climate hoax instead of seeking true facts. This phenom on should be discussed in a broader perspective, because nativity is killing the Western civilization. https://www.bbc.com/news/10156433
I have come to truly hate the world we are living in now. So much self-righteous ignorance. Idiots who have never taken a science class, nor held a job that actually produces something of value to society, lecturing me constantly about science and morality. I am ready to go full John Galt and check out.
….Who is John Galt ?? ; )
Read the book! Please don’t tell me I have to give the title.
Read the book! Please don’t tell me I have to give the title.
I don’t think you need too. Note the winking smiley at the end of Marcus’s post.
Yea! It is sad, though, the number of people in their 30s and 40s who have no clue to ANYTHING prior to 1989. Hell, if it was not for Saving Private Ryan and CoD WWII they would not even know about the 1940s, what little they know.
“many women are so afraid of climate change that they are deciding not to have kids ”
Great!
Fewer morons in the next generation!