According to The Conversation, the reason people get angry at the high tax job destroying policies advocated by female green leaders is because we are expressing our toxic masculinity.
Green with rage: Women climate change leaders face online attacks
September 13, 2019 6.44am AEST
Tracey Raney Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Mackenzie Gregory Master’s Student, Ryerson University…
Catherine McKenna, Canada’s environment and climate change minister, recently announced that she’s had to hire security to protect herself and her family while in public. With an election now on, it’s likely she’ll face further abuse in the weeks to come.
McKenna hired security after she was out with her children and a driver rolled down his window and shouted: “F-k you, Climate Barbie.” This sexist taunt was popularized by Conservative MP Gerry Ritz, who once used the slur in reference to McKenna on Twitter.
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Maxime Bernier, leader of the Peoples’ Party of Canada, recently tweeted at 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, calling her:
“…clearly mentally unstable. Not only autistic, but obsessive-compulsive, eating disorder, depression and lethargy, and she lives in a constant state of fear.”
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Following the proposal of the New Green Deal by U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, critics attacked her intelligence and her personal and professional background. National Review writer Charles Cooke referred to her as an “unmarried, childless bartender” who “somehow has the temerity to fancy herself a congressional representative.” He claimed the New Green Deal she supports is:
“ …an untrammeled Dear Santa letter without form, purpose, borders, or basis in reality.”…
Misogyny at work
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Climate denialism has also been linked to traditional assumptions of masculinity. Research shows that climate deniers are more likely to adhere to older forms of industrial modern masculinity that helped to push society towards “industrialization, mechanism and capitalism.”
Accordingly, some climate deniers prefer this older form of masculinity over a newer “eco-modern masculinity” of care and compassion for the environment.
A 2019 study found that some men will avoid certain environmental actions, such as recycling or using reusable shopping bags, in order to maintain “an outward-facing heterosexual identity.”
These versions of heterosexual masculinity appear to be predicated upon the domination and exploitation, rather than the preservation, of the environment.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/green-with-rage-women-climate-change-leaders-face-online-attacks-123155
I’m personally disgusted at efforts by climate activists to shut down criticism by accusing their critics of being racists or misogynists.
I do not support whoever allegedly yelled “f-k you climate barbie” at Catherine McKenna in the middle of the street, making someone feel personally unsafe should never be an acceptable part of democratic political discourse.
But the fact is climate activists legitimately deserve criticism. They want us to spend billions, maybe trillions of dollars on their wild ideas, and they want to seize control of untold trillions of dollars worth of assets which don’t belong to them, based on the flimsiest of evidence.
Climate activists suggesting their opponents have bad motives is a transparent and shameless attempt to silence legitimate criticism of their outrageously awful policy ideas.
What if you disagree with her and are female?
Well, based on ghalfrunt’s post above, that just makes you generically ‘loathsome slime’.
My comment was not with regard to all here just to the slime that posts comments like:
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Up here in Saskatchewan we call Greta “the magical retard.” And we never apologize for it.
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I think that Greta has too much masculinity, she has all the physical symptoms of too much testosterone.
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Greta Thunberg is a toxic teenager! They ought to start there!
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A retarded child being the spokesperson for the increasingly insane Left is utterly appropriate
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if you look closely at her right braid, you can see an image of mohammed.
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Insanity is as insanity does…..
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vlad
that is not on to hope she dies.
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Greta is the perfect example of child abuse. Very sad
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Pray for hurricanes, or an iceberg…..
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Someone with serious mental and associated health issues embarking on a two week voyage in a special purpose built racing yacht to cross the Atlantic?
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She is a brain-washed child – there ought to be laws about abusing children that way.
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etc. etc.
All I can say is that perhaps it is best to post criticisms directed at certain people who make such remarks, rather than by a dismissive comment at the end of the thread.
I agree that a few have made some awful comments, but most here have simply pushed back against what her message is, and I think most here feel it is her parents and handlers who are really to blame.
Young people with irrational fears need to be educated and taught how to deal with their fears, and to understand the reasons they feel afraid.
As near as I can tell, and I have tried very hard to understand precisely why some people think there is an actual ongoing emergency, is that people are being taught that every adverse weather event is an avoidable consequence of burning fossil fuels.
There seems to be no awareness of how much safer we all are now than ever in human history, and that by any OBJECTIVE reckoning, the world is becoming a better place to live, we have more reason for and ability to enjoy life than ever, and are almost guaranteed to have more life than was ever possible for the average human even a handful of decades ago, let alone a hundred years ago.
Encouraging someone with such fears is incredibly irresponsible, IMO.
Reinforcing such fears and using them for political advantage (and this is political, not scientific) is arguably outright child abuse.
I know a few things about what causes people to harm themselves, to commit suicide, to fall into depression, to turn to drug abuse, and to die from it.
Tens of thousands of more young people are dying now from such causes than even a decade ago, but the number who are so suffering and not dying is many times higher.
It is impossible to believe that being told every single day from all sides that we live on a poisoned planet and are doomed, does not have a terrible and tragic consequence for a huge number of young people, who, like every young person, do not have a fully formed mind, have no larger perspective or contrary experience to draw on, and are at a stage of life that is difficult for many of them when everything is cheerful and happy all around them.