What If "Toxic Masculinity" Is The Reason For Climate Change?

[G_j]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolyncenteno/2019/04/03/what-if-toxic-masculinity-is-the-reason-for-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR2TL52r1CH_Pav4CUBXGOcuMqyMScTJYTsd_83aH-jYbcz-2jds1Ixgl_Y#53f8f12237e4

When a person walks out of the grocery store holding an eco-friendly canvas bag instead of a plastic bag, what gender do you think they are? Most likely, your unconscious bias answers that they are female. This is the type of answer Dr. Aaron Brough of Utah State University is trying to get to the bottom of through his research.

Brough co-authored a paper with professors from four other universities to understand how gender norms affect sustainable decision making. They report data from seven experiments that included over 2,000 participants from the US and China. What they found was remarkable.

They found that both men and women associated doing something good for the environment with being “more feminine.” And when men’s gender identity was threatened, they tried to reassert their masculinity through environmentally damaging choices. The report states that “men may be motivated to avoid or even oppose green behaviors in order to safeguard their gender identity.” This unearths a deeply held unconscious bias that Brough and team call the “Green-Feminine Stereotype.” Once this unconscious bias is revealed, it has the potential to help society shift our increasingly precarious relationship with the environment for the better. If it remains hidden, it has the potential to greatly damage our environment permanently.

In one of Brough and the team’s experiments, both men and women were asked to recall a time when they did something good or bad for the environment. Those who recalled having done something good for the environment rated themselves as more “feminine” than those who recalled having done something bad to the environment. One might expect this type of gender stereotyping around green behavior to happen only when someone is concerned about how they appear to others. But even upon self-evaluation judged themselves feminine when acting responsibly towards the environment. This experiment shows how deeply held this bias is.

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[targetpractice]

1. Haven't read the article...

But, my contention is that testosterone is the single chemical responsible for more change over the last 1,000 years than any other chemical since hemoglobin.

Part facetious, part serious.

[SCantiGOP]

4. As has been noted before

The most lethal combination of drugs ever is testosterone and alcohol.

[WhiteTara]

2. If the planet is feminine

does this show a deep hatred for life? And the desire to rape and pillage and destroy come a place of self loathing?

Early morning thought. I've wondered why so many want to destroy our home.

My columns are only allowed 350 words so it's so hard to explore the problems, I can only inform and try to point a possibility of change.
http://eureka.news/free-parking-70/

[lunatica]

3. Those ideas can change just like caring for babies changed.

When I was young you never, ever saw or heard of a man caring for his babies’ physical needs. Men didn’t change diapers or carry babies in public, or even push a baby carriage around. Once the child was a toddler and out of diapers it was OK.

Of course, there were exceptions, but I remember I was in my forties when I saw a man carrying a baby in one of those harnesses where the baby was held to his chest. It was a small baby, obviously not too long after it was born. It shocked me but in the best possible way. Now you see it all the time.

I’m 70 years old so this would be decades ago. It’s one of the many advantages of age. You can remember things that seemed impossible of societal change at the time. We Boomers have a lot of those kinds of memories and experiences..

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Hubby and I have talked for decades about the "MORE RED MEAT!" aspect of advertising is

directed at men. Showing REAL MEN as scornful of vegetables, salads, or even non-red meat like chicken. And they must not simply eat red meat and nothing else - to show that they are really, REAL men, they must eat HUGE portions of red meat, as often as possible. They must crave it always.

This is a disaster for the planet, and men's health.

[msongs]

6. so women never drive gas powered cars? nt