Insecure Men support the Iraq war more & more willing to purchase SUV

[Used and Abused]

http://channels.netscape.com/new/html/live/scoop/np/18.html

"Masculine overcompensation is the idea that men who are insecure about their masculinity will behave in an extremely masculine way as compensation," explained study leader Robb Willer in a news release announcing the study findings.

When the men who felt threatened were questioned about their political attitudes, including how they felt about a same-sex marriage ban and their support for President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, they displayed strong macho feelings. Masculinity-threatened participants also showed more interest in buying an SUV. The study findings were presented at the American Sociological Association meeting in Philadelphia.

[AnnieBW]

1. Duh...

Yep, that about sums it up.

[MojoXN]

2. Surprise, surprise.

NEWS FLASH: Earth still revolving around Sun. Film at 11.

MojoXN

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I have always seen a strong

gender component to the whole left/right continuum.

[The Doctor.]

4. Bet there's quite a gun ownership correlation as well. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. "Testosterone Gone Wild" Now playing in a desert wasteland near you.

Oooooh, the big macho types and their war fantasies. Must make up for nature's shortcomings.................

[Lexingtonian]

6. We used to call them

just plain ol' "losers" at some point, didn't we?

I recommend Gregg Easterbrook's "Axle of Evil", which lays out what marketers know and think of SUV buyers. Back in 2003.

http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/suvsuck/suvsuck.htm

"They tend to be people who are insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors." This is Bradsher's summary of the auto industry's own marketing research about SUV buyers, and he adduces numerous on-the-record comments from auto-marketing gurus to back this up. One such wise man, named Clotaire Rapaille, tells the Big Three that people buy SUVs "because they want to look as menacing as possible." It is perhaps not startling that rather than trying to alter these buyer proclivities, the manufacturers of SUVs have tried to encourage them. There are lots of self-centered and self-absorbed people with little interest in their neighbors. Somebody finally made a class of vehicles designed to bring out the worst in them.

[IChing]

7. They probably use the word "LOSER" a lot and "nuff said" in conversation.

The idiom "loser" implies a winner and a loser in a black and white reality,
which puts the person using this chagrin in a state of a superficial superior position referencing to another individual as a means of compensation to the ego and masculinity .

"Nuff said" is an attempt to cut off any further discourse.


I prefer idiot myself,

There was also a study recently done in Australia on the SUV male
mentioned in DU

So

"SUVs rule, losers, nuff said, 4 wheelers for Bush

.(my neighbor has that on his huge 4x4
8 cylinder chevy and talks like that plus has that bumper sticker on his truck.

[proud patriot]

8. that would make a great bumper sticker

[bklyncowgirl]

9. What, something like the bigger the SUV the smaller the DICK

Hummer making up for what nature shorted you.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Randi Rhodes discussed this

SUVs, Pit Bulls, Voting for Bush, Support for the War, and Rifles are psychological compensation for small penises. (Per Randi Rhodes).