Opinion By Megan MacKenzie Sat at 1:00pm
Growing up in Moose Jaw, Canada, it never occurred to me that some people didn’t know what truck nuts were.
For all you city-slickers, truck nuts (or truck nutz, depending on your preferred provider) are crafted testicles designed to hang from the back of your truck. You’re welcome.
What’s the link between Australia’s politicians, truck nuts and big bush fires?
Photo Trucknuts
The answer to this question might be the key to overcoming the global climate crisis, so buckle up.
Trucks and fast cars have long been understood as symbols of wealth and masculinity. Truck nuts just added a ball-shaped exclamation point to this statement.
But driving a big truck has been used to convey more than manhood.
There’s a history of people coal rollin’ or retro-fitting trucks so they burn more diesel and produce heavy plumes of black smoke.
Consuming fuel and producing smoke are a way to both signal hyper-masculinity and an open distain for environmental concerns. A smoky middle finger to environmentalists, if you will.
There are entire Instagram pages dedicated to coal rollin’, with some drivers making a sport out of blasting smoke at bikers, protesters, Asian-made cars (called “rice-burners”), unsuspecting female pedestrians and hybrid cars.
Here’s where truck nuts and coal rollin’ become helpful in understanding why (mostly white male) political leaders like Trump, ScoMo and Albo champion fossil fuel extraction even as the country literally burns and in the face of overwhelming science regarding the climate crisis.
Put simply, fragile masculinity might be the biggest obstacle to real climate action. Masculinity has been associated with fossil fuel consumption, extraction, and burning for decades.
Who are our biggest climate deniers?
Cara Daggett uses the concept of “petro-masculinity” to describe the ways that fossil fuel extraction has historically been used to fuel western development and provide world leaders with power and a sense of manliness.
Leaving fossil fuels in the ground symbolises a loss of power and money. Some male leaders see real climate action as a threat to power and to profit, through extraction and exploitation of the environment.
Male resistance to climate action has bipartisan support. Any hope that the Labor party might offer climate policy alternatives the Liberals went up in smoke in the past few months as Anthony Albanese announced he doesn’t want to phase out coal.
Researchers in Norway also found what they call a “cool dude effect” when it comes to climate change.
Photo ‘I don’t believe in global warming’ art.
They show that white conservative men, especially those that think they understand the science of climate change, are the biggest climate deniers and the least likely to be moved by further research.
There are multiple examples of ‘cool climate dudes’ and petro-masculinity, including “right wingers…going crazy about meat”, by embracing diets called “the carnivore” or “the caveman” at the same time that vegans are belittled as “soyboys” and “beta males”.
Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas emissions and researchers says plant-based diets are best for the environment and for our health.
Yet, a recent Twitter poll had 45 per cent men report that their biggest barrier to a vegan diet was social stigma.
In her incredible article, Victoria Galiardo-Silver concludes, “fragile masculinity says meat is manly”.
This researcher is united in the conclusion that white conservative men have been the ones with the most power in western countries and they have the most to lose by efforts to change long standing practices and structures, including those associated with the environment.
We must shift the way we see world leaders responding to the climate crisis. They are not ill-informed or ignorant, they are just fragile and anxious. We can help them recover.
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And yet the CACA most spewers are gamma “males”, like Mickey and Gavin.
I’m a white guy who used to drink the global warming kook aid- but I stopped when I saw how the establishment was telling lie after lie about “climate “ Nice try Megan- trying to make a racist attack on me won’t make climategate disappear. Nor will it make CO2 become pollution rather than a trace life giving gas.
Indeed.
old : ageist
white : racist
men : sexist
Why is this offensive language and behaviour accepted by the SJW thought police, where are they when you need them?
Yeah, right, all we really need is a big hug from some arrogant condescending racist feminist bitch to make us feel better and we’ll stop being alpha males and roll over on our back and drink soy “milk” from a baby bottle.
Best not let on that this is feminist dominance, otherwise it might not work. Oops , too late.
Well if she’s “hot” it at least has a plausible chance, doesn’t it?
How many “hot” anti-white, man-hating feminists have you met?
If you don’t have any real arguments you can shut down the opposition with some artful kafkatrapping.
Not only that women who said they were NOT, ever, the target of sexual harassement (f.ex. in the French military) have been accused of exhibiting “internalized misogyny”: they would, in good faith, deny the fact harassement took place, and that they were the victim of it (something complete strangers apparently know better then these women), because they would have been mentally programmed (probably by “patriarchy”) to ignore and dismiss any inappropriate sexual contact.
According to feminist theory, women can do anything…..except resist a little male disapproval.
Perhaps not women. We should be careful to avoid indulging diversitist (i.e. color judgments) thought and practice. But rather second and later wave female chauvinists (“feminists”) who have established a religion that sanctions relative ethical codes, up to and including summary judgments of life and death for light and casual causes, social justice, social progress, medical progress, democratic leverage, and profit.
Look sometimes you just have to man up and admit it global warming is all my fault. Now they have identified the problem all the need to work out is how to convince me to change 🙂
Women allegedly tend to go for the “bad boys” anyway, so there you have a further incentive to not change.
“I’m a man, but I can change…if I have to.” – Red Green/Possom Lodge
Exactly. And call me a toxic male … but where was the “science” in that nonsensical appeal to toxic femininity to embrace global warming.
This is why the correct response is “I don’t care.”
The power of that three word spell against SJWs is quite incredible.
If only that were possible. People do care, or rather they are forced to care, with the threat of cancellation, lawfare, labels, etc. People thought they could safely ignore these formerly fringe activists, and without oversight they enjoyed progress in the twilight. Now it’s April 1st every day.
It invalidates their identity as a moral judge. Their whole power structure is based on entrapping opponents within their framings.
I DON’T GIVE A [BLEEP]! may get the point across better. Accompanied by, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, SUE ME.
I thought that the only good and moral reason for disagreeing is finding g fault with The Science. Looks like and academic has said that I’m not allowed to do that anymore.
Is there anything that can’t be declared the truth now?
They speak truth to facts, which are undeniable, lest you be judged and labeled, or worse, cancelled or impeached as a denier.
Hmm. I thought it was rollin’ coal, not “coal rollin'”. As for Truck Nuts (z), it’s a redneck thing. Come on down to the second most redneck town in Indiana and I’ll try to explain it to you… Please don’t mind the deer stand in my front yard…
As for fragile masculinity… Are you a Man? Or a Twink? The answer is simple; what have you done for yourself, your family, your community, your State, your Country, your God?
If you can answer those questions, honestly, then you might be a Man, regardless of your sexuality of gender ID.
I think you’re proving their point.
Nope….
…… and when we have fires, it’s mostly those “toxic” males standing in front, with hoses, protecting people and homes.
It’s the “fragile” who have to kowtow before every feminist demand.
My wife and one daughter drive trucks. My other daughter has a Jeep with a Hemi engine. They are all feminine and have never been accused of toxic masculinity.
It just amazes me that a specific segment of society thinks its clever and helps their cause to insult people whose support they need.
Someone send them copies of an old book written by Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” They are in dire need of socialization.
It is akin to hurting people more with climate policy so they hurt less from warming. Works best on those that are poor and helpless.
All that ‘fragile masculinity ‘ is what delivered the freedom from oppression as well as the easy life from having refrigerators and washing machines. Not to mention the freedom you get from owning a personal automobile or from being able to fly anywhere in a couple of hours.
Lets ‘correct’ that and let idiots like this live without air conditioning in summer, and have to heat their house in winter with the same wood stove they cook their food on, if they can grow any.
My take on any male indulging in truck nuts or coal rollin’ is that he is suffering from small dick syndrome.
David Chappell,
“My take on any male indulging in truck nuts or coal rollin’ is that he is suffering from small dick syndrome.”
Maybe they just like to irritate people who irritate them.
And as a result, irritating people who weren’t irritating them.
Jeff…..
Don’t kid yourself.
Your sneering self-satisfaction would irritate a plaster saint.
We don’t care about your delicate, lilac-scented feelings any more than you care about ours. You have earned our disregard.
Maybe when you adopt that ridiculous excuse (What is it with your fetish regarding dick size, anyway?) to dodge the issues, we just stop giving a Shiite what you think.
Which means we don’t care if you are irritated, any more than your smug, self-declared superiority lets you care about irritating us.
If it were not for projection,these fools would have nothing to say.
Funny how the Trump Derangement Syndrome forces them to self identify as fools.
George Carlin referred to these kind as Symbol Minded, I see them mostly a young scolds and nags.
I too knew everything when I was a teenager.
Researchers Eh?
“They show that white conservative men, especially those that think they understand the science of climate change, are the biggest climate deniers and the least likely to be moved by further research.”
I doubt this poor ignoramus can produce any of that “overwhelming science” she believes in.
are the biggest climate deniers and the least likely to be moved by further research.
They actually wonder why skeptics don’t pay attention to their “research”? LOL. Practically all the “research” is stupid scare-mongering. And the most important research (like determining the climate sensitivity) hasn’t progressed in 40 yrs.
She calls that “research”
Sounds more like ant-male sentiment plus a total lack of science (Real Science)
That is the dumbest thing I’ve read this weekend. In fact, it’s even dumber the idiots who think it’s clever to make their trucks blow black smoke as a form of virtue signaling.
I think tuck nuts are hilarious as are torn jeans, purple hair, smart cars, and teenage activists.
Maybe that explains the rednecks. But the real problem is the general consensus of scientists who DON’T work for Government or university that there simply is no climate crisis. In fact, it is physiologically impossible to even notice the human-caused changes. It’s not Big Oil or rednecks or Trumpsters that are the problem. It’s those annoying scientists that won’t get in line. I proudly count myself as one.
Most science teachers that I met in university are pretty UNimpressive.
The high school ones are even worse from my experience. Many did a Diploma of Education with maybe 2 science subjects tacked on and then proceed to parrot the left/big government agenda of catastrophic climate change directly into the minds of our children. Haha, can often be caught out claiming to be scientists 🙂
“Physiologically impossible?” I’ll eat my hat if you have anything above a high school degree Mary.
But she’s a pwofessor, of gender………
Most times a Professor of…fill in the blanks is self explanitery, it relates to what you’re really good at. I didn’t know that you could a Professor of gender. Does that mean that you’re really good at crushing men?
Steve45
I am not sure if you can understand on how many levels your comment is foolish, but let’s try.
High schools do not grant degrees.
You couldn’t eat a hat if you tried.
We all know you would’t eat your hat if she showed you her degree.
It is physiologically impossible to measure the increase (or not) in the global temperature to an accuracy and precision that can definitively show a change over the past 30 years. The uncertainty greatly exceeds any calculated “change”. That is the scientific definition of an “impossible” task.
Totally physiologically impossible.
Are you actually claiming that it takes advanced degrees to notice the BS being put out by the climate alarmists?
Is that word a little big for you. Tell me how you feel the human caused climate changes.
“Tell me how you feel the human caused climate changes.”
As soon as you learn how to speak English it’s a deal.
Mary did not say “physically impossible to measure” she said “physiologically impossible to even notice” which is true. You only notice a difference of around 1.5 to 2 degrees.
There are some scientists, academics, and career politicians that make sense. You are now on my very short list.
I’ve made this argument here at WUWT before, and it appears I will have to state it again. Ms. MacKenzie does not appear to be aware that there are two sides to the sexism coin. The side of it she does not appear to be familiar with is called misandry, the hatred or distrust of men.
Creating an anti-male sexist narrative in an attempt to discredit those who dissent from her views on climate only serves to show how little she understands how scientific discourse is supposed to work. In her mind, the climate alarmist narrative has become an infallible quasi-religious doctrine which cannot and must not be questioned. Her use of a misandrist opinion piece here is little more that an attempt to shut down any threat to that doctrine.
Those like Ms. MacKenzie who think they have the world all figured out are actually the ones who probably still need to learn the most about it. They just don’t know it.
“Those like Ms. MacKenzie who think they have the world all figured out are actually the ones who probably still need to learn the most about it. They just don’t know it.”
It’s called “ignorance”.
Sorry Tom, I’m not picking on you today but here I am agreeing with you again. Ms Mackenzie is cherry picking on a grand scale.
I don’t get the whole truck nuts thing, it’s a Canadian ‘in’ joke. We used to have Valiants with fluffy dice hanging off the dashboard mirror, or kangaroo scrotum purses. They didn’t mean anything either, just a crass ‘seemed like a good idea at the time’ thing that everyone does at one time or another. She’s reading into things all over the place that simply aren’t there. The reving of cars was simply young boys competing with their mates and showing off to the girls. A mating ritual of sorts, much like birds do. They certainly didn’t have climate issues on there mind. She’s cherry picking all over the place. Attributing a broad extreme feminist view to narrow behavior of young men in a short time span of their lives.
I’m so confused about women who are seeking to emasculate men in the name of feminism. I really don’t understand it. It certainly has nothing to do with equality. I wonder if it’s possible for them to have significant relationships of any kind with any man. Pretty sad really. In my experience both men and women have the potential to be wonderful people. I’ve seen amazing fathers, brothers, sons, managers, teachers, shopkeepers, doctors, etc.sorry the etc is a cop out but all men deserve accolades. This is what equality means. Both men and women care about the same things, both men and women are seeking to find a solution to current issues.
Taking equality further, women too, have equal potential for evil, I have seen it.
Megan, you are happy to make statements regarding the behavior of young boys, can you please tell me what statement young teenage girls are making when they go out late at night, literally with their breasts and arses hanging out, then complain about unwanted attention. Here in Australia we are expected to respect the different cultures that make up our country, but realise that by the standards of some cultures, these girls are seen to be little more than sl.ts. They will not be treated with respect and they are sending conflicting messages to all men.
Megan’s attempt to make analogies in regards to men’s behavior and climate change is nothing short of a joke. What is serious about this whole issue is the damage that’s being done globally with the push for wind and solar renewables and on this matter she is totally ignorant.
In regard to climate issues, I give her the same respect that she gives men, absolutely none! She knows nothing about either of them.
was this the american bc or the aussie bc?
but i reckon its the aus mob
and shes a femtard obviously
as a female who grew UP into the 70s so called fem rebellion culture
it left me cold and feminist is a dirty word
most spout the equality line but cant even change their own tyres!
however i AM still waiting 50yrs now for equal bloody PAY for equal work
and I wouldnt consider a car thats not a V6 ever.
I have no little dick issues( being female) but I need a car with grunt for the paddocks towing etc
as well as fitting 6 large dogs in;-)
Yeah I get the equal pay thing, at the same time, some of the government ministers are received a nasty Xmas present and are being shown the door. The thing is, both men and women get equal pay, we’re talking $800,000 plus benefits. That’s equally obscene.
It seems after all that all is not equal, it’s all relative.
Equal pay was achieved decades ago. In fact unequal pay never really existed.
Once you account for the differences between men and women, such as:
Women taking time off for child birth/raising
Men on average more hours per week
Men working in jobs that were more dangerous/difficult
etc
The difference in pay disappeared.
Is that word a little big for you. Tell me how you feel the human caused climate changes.
There’s just so much to say here I don’t know where to start.
But I will restrict myself to this ”gem”…..
”Cara Daggett uses the concept of “petro-masculinity” to describe the ways that fossil fuel extraction has historically been used to fuel western development and provide world leaders with power and a sense of manliness.”
Hmmm, what about provide world’s people with…. Computers, cars, books, planes, tv, radio, newspapers, houses, paint, glue, plastic fingernail brushes, steel fingernail files, roads, food, wood, hair dryers, hair dyes, shoes, make up, twitter, scissors, pens, cushions, glass, heat, coolness, frozen stuff, cruise ships, holidays, lawns, fertilizer, helicopters, music, movies, peace of mind ………..
Stone age, here we come!
“Stone age, here we come!”
But won’t that bring back the clubs and the hair pulling and – – ?
“But won’t that bring back the clubs and the hair pulling and – – ?”
…. and not a moment too soon!
you forgot nail polish and fake tan mate;-) oh and hair gel n spray etc
oh and MOST importantly the synthetic hair for extensions and the silicon for the boobs, and butt jobs;-))) roflmao!
Articles that are this stupid are useful as they give a window into the mind of the Climate Delusionists.
I agree it says more about the writer than anything it says about the subject.
I drive a 4X4 full size crew cab pickup that burns fossil fuels. It is NOT about power and money. It is for the freedom to travel where and when I want. Fossil fuels give it great range between 10 minute refuelings. Full size crew cab, I like the roominess, comfort, and carrying capacity. Air conditioning and satellite radio. Big motor for when I need it, and they generally last longer than overstrung small motors. 4X4 for the seven plus months of ice covered streets and highways.
I also eat meat, because I like to, and God told Noah that we can.
What I don’t like is do gooders telling me how to live my life. MYOB. I don’t tell you how to live yours.
My masculinity is not at all fragile, it is full strength. My feminine side is drinking tea and playing on her computer, I am watching football and typing, well, I do also have a tea though, orange pekoe, black.
I hereby submit that we replace the male symbol with C and the female symbole with H.
Are you graphite or acetylene.
I guess that depends on whether you are Cool or Hot.
Nuts to you!
I always associated my love of nuclear weapons and carrier battle groups as a masculine signal, my vehicle choice was entirely dependent on role, reliability, and efficiently – I guess that’s mansplaining, too.
Major Kong, your alter-ego:
https://images.app.goo.gl/pac8H5jrKcPiPaBz8
If liberals were smart they would stop writing nonsense junk like this. Their preoccupation that all things having a sexual connotation demonstrates how possessed they are of sexual insecurity.
” in the face of overwhelming science regarding the climate crisis.”
No, there is NOT overwhelming science regarding the climate crisis. Actually there is NONE. Two fraudulent graphs of the CO2 and temperature records, junk science that CO2 controls the climate, and global computer climate models that are based on this junk science and that have been WRONG 100% of the time. For that matter, such models are not science in the first place as they spew out exactly what they are programmed to do.
Nothing is happening out of the ordinary in the Arctic, Antarctic, sea level, ocean pH, extinctions, human health, crops, disease, you name it, all doing nothing that can be worried about. We are not warming and might be actively cooling as the Sun goes into a Grand Minimum, which is exactly why nothing bad is happening regarding warming.
The biggest threat to human and world health is renewable wind and solar power. They are the least green and most expensive energy sources on the planet, have huge footprints, use lots of unsustainable and unrecyclable elements and materials, and have short half-lives and high maintenance. Oh, and they are patently unreliable.
YOU CANNOT BUILD A RELIABLE ENERGY SUPPLY FROM UNRELIABLE ENERGY SOURCES.
Biofuels are also a waste of time as it takes more energy to make them than we get back when using them. And they take up large amounts of crop lands that should be growing food for the world. Instead, these programs are raising the cost of food around the world and starving and killing people.
We need real and reliable energy. That is carbon based fuels, of which we have more than we ever imagined, and nuclear which could replace all of our caseload grid needs and allow our transportation use of hydrocarbons to be easy as pie. Batteries cannot and will not replace the energy density of gasoline or diesel.
Most of us here are right there with you Charles, I myself have raised these issues many times. Megan Mackenzie is not likely to have read past the first sentence. They are not interested in the truth, only propaganda and insulting retorts.
Charles, you leave yourself open to the claim that “white conservative men, especially those that think they understand the science of climate change, are the biggest climate deniers”.
In contrast, under-educated school children and over-educated white socialists, especially those who get paid to claim they understand the science of climate change, are the biggest climate alarmists.
The weather today is different from the weather yesterday.
That’s all they need to prove that CO2 is gonna kill us.
My sister won’t let me talk about sea surface temperature anomalies in the Gulf of Alaska because: “I already know what you believe, you believe in bad science, so we would even go there.”
I may be a little insecure in my masculinity, most men are. How do you think my sister’s comments reflect on the fairer sex?
Science isn’t divided into “good” or “bad” science.
Intentionally badly done science isn’t science at all. Cherry picking data isn’t science. Cherry picking time series starts and end pts isn’t science. Prescreening tree ring samples for a hockey stick signature isn’t science. The Pseudoscience of “consensus” is not science.
As Dr Feynman said (my very crudely paraphrasing here from memory), “It (pseudoscience) may look like science. They may do such and such… that gives the appearance of science… taking down data, making notes, doing statistics. But they haven’t done the hard work. The questioning of bias. The rigor of the checking of assumptions to know what they are reporting is real.”
Real science is hard, really hard. Most Climate science today is easy junk fast food.
William Abbott-
Whenever you feel a little insecure in your masculinity, I suggest reading the following:
IF
by Rudyard Kiping
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look to good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream- and not make dreams your mathings you gave your lifester;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you meet with Triumph and Distaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you”ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And- which is more- you’ll be a Man, my son!
I doubt that Megan MacKenzie would understand any of that.
she’s the sort that gives women a bad name as dumb blondes etc
annoy the f outta me as a female
They’ve got to get their…kicks somehow.
Gender, not sex? Masculine, not male? Why the genderism?
Diversity or color judgment and exclusion breeds adversity. Rabid diversity. Perhaps that’s her motive, as Feminists… female chauvinists pitted men against women against women against babies before.
Well she is right in a way, if we were desperate approval seekers it would be much easier to “shame” us into conformation no matter what we actually thought about the climate.
It’s not coincidence that people desperately signalling virtue get anxious when they see people not falling in line, it disrupts the entire social order when people think for themselves rather than following social media influencers.
“desperate approval seekers”
Yeah, we want to be just the opposite of that. You are not thinking for yourself when you are desperately seeking approval from others, especially if you have to “get your mind right” to be approved..
On further snickering,this idiotic child blames “masculinity” for the luxurious lives we enjoy.
The association with pickup trucks is classic progressive cant,none of whom work,so they assume no one needs a service truck.
I would love to have one of these virtue signalling nitwits carry my tools from job to job.
Although I suspect most of them could not even lift them.
And after decades of listening to condescending,ignorant scolds such as this fool, I fully support the exhibitionists who torment them.
I have even considered installing oil injection into my gas burners exhaust manifold,just for those special occasions, but earning a living has always taken precedence.
(Cause now you can’t take waste oil to our dump,it is forbidden but naturally there is no where else for it to go.)
And when I am hauling material in my diesel,yes it can smoke.
Funny they do that when working .
A fellow tradesman refers to these whining nitwits,answers their whines with “First World Problems”.
Freezing in the dark appears to be their hearts desire,I have heard enough of their drivel and suffered enough interference through policies appeasing their madness to feel they should receive what they demand.
In Roman times, mothers who were concerned about their male children growing up too feminine and not tough enough, not manly enough, or might like other boys would make their adolescent sons eat raw, sliced Ram’s and bull’s (sheep) testicles. And the Romans probably learned that from their exposures to ancient middle east cultures in Persia, Egypt, Palestine, and the Levant.
They knew nothing of biochemistry, testosterone or hormones. All they knew from generations of experience is that it grew their boys to be stronger and more aggressive (manliness in a society where young soldiers could help provide for the family, in a world that only the tough survived.
With onions?
Olive oil glaze with a glass of wine sounds okay to me.
Garnishments optional.
It’s a common misconception but testosterone can it in practice be absorbed through the digestive tract, so this would have a placebo effect only (though those animal testes may also have some of the precursor hormones which can be ingested, like DHEA and progesterone).