According to PsyPost some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine.

The researcher involved "found a negative relationship between masculinity concerns and climate engagement."

"Men who scored higher on masculinity stress expressed significantly less concern about climate change."

" If environmentalism is perceived as an act of caring and compassion, it may continue to alienate men who are anxious about their gender status."

"The current data indicates that for many men, the desire to be seen as a “real man” conflicts with the desire to save the planet."

Who else finds nothing surprising about this research conclusions?

If environmentalism is perceived as an act of caring and compassion,
WTF?-Not Again,
It isn't ! Bandwagon mentality is not what masculinity engages in, it only brushes the nonsense aside !
Real men care about their families & the society they live in & work to be part of. The issue you're talking about is the fantasy land opportunists among the intellectual elite & those who think they're part of it but never will be but they still vote Labor !
They have in fact no comprehension what caring & compassion entails !

Yes, I read a while back that some men threw all their rubbish into the landfill bin when in public out of fear of being perceived as gay if they put recyclables into the recycling bin.

The results of this study should be utterly unsurprising to pretty much everyone now.

One need only scan a comments section, for any news article on Facebook with so much as a passing mention of the weather, to notice a predictable pattern. The friendly reminders that it gets hot in summer, or that the climate’s always changing, are overwhelmingly coming from people who:

- are mostly male
- have a profile pic of a 4WD / muscle car / the Australian flag
- or are one of these guys:

http://drive.google.com/file/d/1SzkQhO2FkkQanuLU1yFRdG7p8QD4iv_I

But it’s not just recycling. There would probably be more support for solar panels and wind turbines if we could somehow get them to bang, burn, and leak.

Whatever lets us blokes grunt and scratch our balls at the mere thought of them.

A couple of the far right old regulars on OLO

http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=445305073763236

John Daysh,
You & your fixation with unsustainable energy. You could probably run several 200Kva generators for years before they emit the same pollution as is produced by the manufacture of just on wind generator ! Not to mention the land degradation !
It seems you've backed the wrong horse & now you're panicking about your investment in this futile experiment.
I think wind generators & solar are ok for selected situations but we need to plan for sustainability on a massive scale & I'm afraid there's not enough land & no way of disposing of so much infrastructure plus the atmosphere won't handle the emission. Small nuke plants are the go until the population declines again.

Oh, the climate change crowd are trying to convince themselves its better to be manly than right.

But what happens to self-esteem when you're neither?

"Men who scored higher on masculinity stress expressed significantly less concern about climate change."

It only makes sense that people with masculinity/femininity/gender issues tend to be too preoccupied with their existing issues to adopt new concerns.

To verify the general nature of the observation, it will be interesting to research how many people in that category, compared with the general population, join the Mormons, JW's, Scientology or similar proselytising creeds.

This is as nonsensical as the wild claim that man, manly or poofy, can stop climate change. It is probably no more realistic than this piece from a book I'm currently reading.

"... how many healthy, red blooded, testosterone filled men do you see fighting against 'climate change'"?

".... generally you'll see a gaggle of emasculated oat-milk alphas with Freddie Mercury moustaches who look as creepy as hell".

"emasculated oat-milk alphas with Freddie Mercury moustaches who look as creepy as hell".

Then you could come across some decrepit old fart whose the other side of 80, and looks like a reject from the Fright Factory! Takes all kinds!

Oh gawd...
Not these kinds of studies
The 'recommendations' always follow

Recommendations to improve situation include

Campaign against 'toxic masculinity'
Promote soy drinks as being manly in order to chemically castrate manly men.
Re-educate men that it's masculine to care for the environment
Neutering.

And thus we have this complete manufactured fantasy world.

If they could re-educate men to be more susceptible or in touch with their feminite side, more easily manipulated or swayed by emotionally charged speeches by female leaders rather than logic, they would.

It lowers the bar for all politicians to be whiney b*tches.
And that's why we have Albo.
He's definitely a soy-boy.

The Truth About Soy Boys
http://youtu.be/FTSvLKY7HEk

Hi AC,

I was rather shocked by a good mate of mine, a former demon fast bowler of yesteryear for Queensland, when he told me recently how much he likes QUICHE, in fact Harry admitted he prefers a slice of QUICHE over a good old MEAT PIE! Couldn't believe it, a mans man like Harry eating quiche, his wife Mavis went a step further, she said; "Harry can't get enough of the stuff, but I hate the bloody thing myself". I immediately realised we had a transgender issue at hand; Harry was turning gay, and Mavis was going, well all masculine, might want to become a warfie or something! Its a well know fact, down at the "Royal" among the fellas, that eating quiche turns a bloke gay! I should have known, when Harry went off the XXXX and started drinking that poofy boutique beer they're selling at the pub now days. Where will it end? I'm pretty sure Soy Latte's were only the tip of the iceberg!

Paul,

A real bloke doesn't eat quiche. He eats "egg and cheese pie".

Armchair Critic,

The study didn't "recommend" neutering, soy, re-education, or any of the other cartoon villains you've listed. It observed a correlation between masculinity stress and climate disengagement under certain framings. That's it.

Disagree with the methodology if you like. Question the interpretation. But inventing an entire authoritarian programme that isn't there just avoids engaging with what was actually studied.

If the finding is wrong, explain why. If it's uncomfortable, that's a different issue.

Good post Armchair Critic. Kudos.

I agree with what seems to be AC's attitude to “studies”. ‘There has been a study’. ‘Studies have shown’, etc, etc, etc. And some half-arsed Phd candidates or “researchers” have probably been given a subsidy, on the taxpayer, to come up with some completely stupid drivel about nothing that matters.

I had no intention of saying anything about WTF's silly post, until I read the wonderfully sarcastic piece in opposition that I found by accident.

Actually, the piece wasn't in opposition: it actually agreed that real men had better things to do than get the vapours over natural climate change, and demonstrate like a bunch of school girls signalling their virtue. It described what a bunch of girly-men and freaks the few males who turn up at the screech-fests are.

Do you have an example of such a study, ttbn?

//And some half-arsed Phd candidates or “researchers” have probably been given a subsidy, on the taxpayer, to come up with some completely stupid drivel about nothing that matters.//

(Sorry, by tumbleweed gif link no longer works.)

You do realise that they need a robust methodology, don't you? They can't just come up with whatever they like.

Thanks John, I was getting rather concerned about Harry eating quiche, but since you said its most likely only egg and cheese pie then that's okay. Harry's still the all round knock-a-about bloke he always was. BTW Harry's asked the fellas down at the 'Royal' if we'd stop calling him Harry and refer to him as Simone from now on, and also he's started wearing lippy and he's got false eye lashes on, and is wearing Mavis's floral skirt. Probably just a phase he's going through at 75, don't you think? Two of the fellas, Sheree, used to be called Jimbo, and Denise once called Davo, said its normal for Harry to be called Simone, they should know.