September 22, 2026
Petromasculinaphobia
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Timothy Birdnow
George Moonbat Monbiat coins a new term "petro-masculinity" to prove he's not just a beta male but probably a gamma.
I like it; it evokes images of raw masculinity, something sorely lacking in the world these days. I picture a big Texan with a tall cowboy hat speeding down the highway, his family heritage replaced by a giant oil derrick and when his gal does him a favor as he drives here comes the oil gusher as he shouts Yeeehaww!...
The Left has created all sorts of insults to masculinity, calling it "toxic masculinity" and sneering at boys being boys. Well, they are nothing but limp-wristed (and limp other things) weenies who fear masculinity because they can't compete with it. It's why so many on the Left now support the trans movement, the sissification of the Western World. They are afraid of masculinity and oil both. Maybe we should coin a new term "petromasculinaphobia".
Monbiot fails to grasp WHY people often drive faster than the posted speed limits; it's because the posted speed limits are usually ridiculously low and are a clear symbol of just what is wrong with our society - petty bureaucratic control of every aspect of life. Many of the scofflaws who disobey traffic regulations do so as a kind of personal rebellion against a stifling society of nanny bureaucrats. They don't see these rules as reasonable restrictions for everyone's benefit but rather as sniveling little cowards imposing restrictions solely because they can.
People can't fight the government and they know it. But they CAN take their revenge in a small way by disobeying traffic laws.
It's actually a social good in some ways; it allows the individual to blow off steam, to feel as if they have some control over their lives.
I would point out that a lot of this stuff started during Covid. Partly because cops stopped enforcing traffic laws lest they be exposed to the virus (and I thought about that; if I got pulled over I was going to start coughing just to screw with the officer) but partly because Covid saw government over-reach, take over our lives, restrict and restrain us. A lot of people started driving crazily because they felt they had no control over their lives. This was their way of coping.
So naturally a Monbiot would hate this; they are about making the public compliant, obedient, safe to the Ruling Class. It was guys like this who pushed the Covid regulations in the first place, and who has long pushed the Green Agenda, including getting rid of gasoline automobiles. He wants everyone on trains and buses so they can be controlled.
I do think people are driving too fast and being too reckless and we need to find ways to discourage that. It IS dangerous. But to blame it on masculinity? They caused this by denying men their masculinity rather than channeling it in a decent direction. Times past society knew how to do that; they sent boys into the woods with the Boy Scouts, they encourage mountain climbing or sky-diving or scuba diving to let the young men get their masculinity challenged in a safe, secure way. There was always the military, too. But the Left couldn't be satisfied with giving masculinity an outlet, no, they had to try to murder masculinity. But it's a basic human impulse and it won't go away just because you disapprove of it.
Older societies had their masculinity rituals, be it hunting, vision quests, counting coup, or other such. It was always understood that young men needed an outlet for their testosterone.
And that was always a good thing; it prevented fights and bitterness and abuse of women. Guys who hunted or counted coup didn't rape women or beat up old ladies, at least not ones in their own tribe.
Civilization made a huge leap forward in treating people decently, I would say (since no doubt someone will mention how cruel tribal conflict had been) but it also repressed the natural urges of a man. Times past we channeled those - now we just condemn and repress them. It's why kids join street gangs now, and get into these huge brawls in public and whatnot. They've been given no creative outlet for their aggression. And of course they know a judge will probably let them off easy.
Moonbat has this to say:
"The West Midlands is one of the few places in the UK where the police are actively trying to stop antisocial driving. An injunction bans street racing and dangerous tricks such as "drifting” (long sideways skids) and "doughnutting” (making the car spin on the spot). The local police commissioner has warned that reckless drivers "will face the full force of the law … including seizure of your vehicle and imprisonment”. But are the courts listening?
Of the three men convicted at Birmingham magistrates court, one received a suspended sentence, a £272 fine, 150 hours of community work and a two-year driving ban. Another was handed a £1,275 fine and seven penalty points: in other words, he could step out of the court and back into his car. The man who did over 90mph in a 30mph zone got a £253 fine and a 56-day driving ban. He’ll be back on the roads in November. All appear to have kept their cars.
If these men had caused the same level of endangerment by any other means, it’s hard to believe they would have got off so lightly. But in dozens of ways, driving gets special treatment."
Well, when I was a kid those things were rites of passage and many, if not most, of the teenagers I knew did some of that at one time or another. It was a reasonably harmless way of blowing off steam. Doing donuts in a parking lot is something most kids would do. And most cops would at worst stop the kid and give him a lecture. It was rare for you to get a ticket for donuts.
Street racing is another matter but we all did it anyway.
Here's where Moonbat really shows his inner Stalin:
"What we see here are manifestations of petro-masculinity: a violent, misogynistic, climate-denying version of manhood, expressed through an antisocial driving culture. Some of the modified trucks have decals saying "Stop the Boats” or "Save Our Children” (who are apparently being brainwashed by LGBTQ+ cultural Marxists). This is the Magafication of transport – a vehicle that carries some of the worst aspects of US culture and politics into the UK.
It’s the extreme end of a much wider trend. In the UK last year, 52% of the new cars on sale were SUVs. Not only do the ever-rising bonnets of these trucks make it harder for drivers to see pedestrians and cyclists, especially children, but higher and heavier cars are also more likely to cause deaths or serious injuries when they hit people: children under nine are three times more likely to be killed if they’re hit by an SUV than by a regular car."
So masculinity and SUV's are now completely toxic and cause street racing and donuts? What is Monbiot's solution? Give hormone blockers to teenage boys?
The fact is, if there is a problem that has grown in recent years it's because everything that is not forbidden is compulsory. Monbiot and his fellows created this problem by their promotion of endless societal controls over the individual.
Well, I for one take pride in the term Petro-masculinity and am a proud Petromasculnist! If I lived in Britain near Mr. Monbiot I would happily do donuts on is carefully manicured lawn (assuming he has one; he probably thinks it's a form of enslavement for grass).
He continues:
"And what are they for? On narrow country lanes round here, tourists in these "off-road” vehicles won’t back up if it means touching a hedge, in case the high-gloss finish on their Wankpanzer Childkiller SUV gets scratched. In one of the poshest parts of London, the Chelsea Truck Company advertises "iconic urban 4x4s”. "Iconic” appears to mean huge. But what the hell is an "urban 4x4”? And why is it legal?"
Maybe the drivers don't want to touch a hedge because they don't want to damage SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY?
"Why is it legal" is the argument made by a true tyrant; it assumes everything you don't like should be illegal, suppressed by government. If Britain is so liberal in the old meaning of the term he would instead argue "why shouldn't it be legal" since the default position should be the citizen has a right to drive what he pleases unless there is a truly compelling reason for him not to be allowed.
Moonbat finishes with a flourish:
"Isn’t it obvious that selfishness on the road changes us as a society? The belief that a driver should be allowed to do whatever they please, regardless of the impact on others, mounts the pavement and travels deep into our lives. If this is to be a decent, inclusive country that values human life, then the law and its enforcement should match that aspiration. But when the roads are used to amplify and celebrate a dangerous, antisocial culture, we are driven towards a very dark place."
What came first, the chicken (aka Monbiot) or the egg? Is the "selfish driving" a response to an octopodal society which stifles all human initiative or is that caused by "selfish drivers"? I would argue the former to a large degree. Monbiot talks about an "inclusive" society but he fails to quote statistics about who is driving too fast or dangerously. I rather suspect many of them are the very people he wants to include - aliens who come from Africa or the Middle East or India. I know around my home in St. Louis the immigrants all drive like bats out of hell. And they get away with it because the cops don't want to be seen as picking on them. How much worse is it in the extremely woke Britain where they won't even arrest an immigrant for raping a child or will arrest a victim of a stabbing because the stabber claimed the man insulted him racially?
When Leftist/socialists were not in power they advocated for weak laws, lawlessness, and demanded it as a civil right. Who promoted "defund the police"? It wasn't the Right Wing. Who pushed civil disobedience to laws? The Left has long advocated disobeying laws if it suited them. But now we have the Left in control and they want strict adherence to some very arbitrary laws like speed limits.
Again, I say we need such laws and we should enforce them to a degree (not for driving a mile over the limit but maybe fifteen). But there needs to be some sensibility involved, and we need to understand that breaking such laws is a social coping mechanism, a necessary one in these times where young men have no outlet for their natural impulses.
So these lefty types should really seek counseling for their Petromasculinaphobia. Or simply grow a pair. Maybe cut out the soy from their diets so their testosterone levels will rise to a normal degree.
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