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@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:28 PM

DYK #Gilgamesh & #Enkidu were lovers & their story, the world’s first epic, was about the civilizing effects of #queer love, its diminishment of masculine virility & rage & grief’s power at the death of a lover. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #manliness #QueerHistory

@estelle.eurosky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:04 PM

"I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble." 🧶

#cars #masculinity #manliness #patriarchy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #energy #authoritarianism

Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
Cara Daggett
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818775817

Abstract
As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of petro-masculinity, which appreciates the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism. The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics. Moreover, through a psycho-political reading of authoritarianism, I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.

@opeitsadam.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 8:35 PM

#alpha #manliness

@duluthatheist.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 7:12 PM

Do #male #transphobes fear that if their child is #trans that it will put their #manhood into question because they base it upon the group's #manliness rather than their own self image and confidence of what their manliness is?

#maga #christian #republican #evangelical