Awesome post on "guyhood" and the "denial industry"

[StefanX]

An op-ed writer named Daniel Clark has obligingly revealed the psychosexual dread at the root of climate denialism:

The latest point of emphasis in the global warming movement is that cattle farming endangers the planet by producing too much methane. So now, steaks and hamburgers are classified as instruments of destruction, along with large vehicles, lawn mowers, and charcoal grills. It can't be much longer before cowboy movies, cigars and hockey are held to be enemies of the earth as well.

This has got to be the most blatant assault on guyhood since ABC moved Coach to the same night as Roseanne, and turned Hayden Fox into Phil Donahue. It's a wonder that liberals don't cut to the chase, by simply claiming that global warming is caused by testosterone. Then, they could make public school nurses siphon the offending fluid from the boys during health class.

At first, it seems like lame comedy. After all, Clark couldn't seriously believe that his "manhood" is threatened by TV scheduling changes, could he?

Apparently, he could and does. Further, he believes that the environmentalists' brutal assault on his fragile masculinity stems from their worship of that hideous bitch goddess Nature:
Conveniently, it turns out that Gaia is a shrew, who demands that her men be reduced to henpecked, metrosexual noodles. Manliness makes Gaia angry, and we wouldn't like her when she's angry, because she'll turn into a green monster and start smashing everything to bits.
Needless to say, someone whose "manliness" relies on homoerotic crutches like cigars and cowboy movies has much bigger problems than Gaia-worshipping environmentalists...

http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2007/03/assault-on-guyhood.html

I was amazed by this very original take on "climate denialists". I have always been perplexed at how threatened they feel by global warming data. (Not threatened the way I feel -- "Hey dude, what's happening to my planet?" -- but pissed-off and angry and in denial). Could this psychosexual angle have something to do with the vehemence of their denial?

By the way, there's lots of other good stuff on that blog. "Friday Hope Blogging" was really refreshing -- good news for a change!

[juno jones]

1. Same psychosexual roots as this war I bet...n/t

[XemaSab]

2. Liberalism in general is sort of an assault on "masculinity."

"Masculinity" being used here in the sense of men living in caves, dragging women around by their hair, and killing woolly mammoths with their bare hands.

We've been saying for years that these "masculine" pursuits such as red meat, big SUV's, and the Superbowl, are bad for a variety of health and social reasons, and now claiming global warming seems (to said persecuted white males) like another excuse to keep guys who like these things feeling guilty.

[InvisibleTouch]

3. He DEFINITELY wouldn't like her when she's angry!

That much is beyond doubt.

I guess sexual reproduction evolved all those billions of years ago and has been so successful because it doesn't benefit the development of life.... </sarcasm>

[StefanX]

4. GW = Global Warming

GW Bush.

[Odin2005]

5. Ugh, I hate that kind of psychobabble.

It's the same kind of Freudian nonsense that spawned the moronic BS about skyscrapers being a form of phallus worship or some such sonsense

[Javaman]

6. Guyhood? WTF???

firstly, any man that has to classify his life by calling it "guyhood" is fucking weird.

second, let these post metro-sexual wanna be guyhood posers will die early with a 38 pound colon like elvis. I call it part of natural selection.

I will be growing my own food, eating a minimum of meat for protein purposes and living a long life with lessons to pass on.

It's so amusing the different forms of panic people exhibit when they go into denial.

They don't have the tools to survive, so they have to find some excuse for there over eating over using, over consuming, non-producing lives.

So these "guyhood" men choose a way to cast blame to remove themselves from the bullseye of the cause. Fools.

I get so tired of living in an alternative universe.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Too late to recommend, but there's a lot of truth in this. nt