• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    so does this mean the next grift is calling tote bags "tactical loot carriers", print them in camo patterns and sell them to homophobic chuds?

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Made from REAL KEVLAR! And has some tactical satchels on the side as well

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Just slap some MOLLE webbing on the sides lmao.

          Fuck this might actually be marketable

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        this is what i look out for in a man, that his tactical grocery storage equipment informs me he is not gay and i can safely date him in hopes of having a sex with his very heterosexual penis. would be so frustrating to go out on a date only to learn that he is a gay who does the, you know, the ... environmental ... stuff. that would be bad. i would lose so much time i could put to better use for carrying white babies.

        pls take note if you are a man of the straight persuasion: this is what us girls want from dudes. not some feminine shit where you have ... furniture in your appartment or w/e.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          "Not looking gay" is less of a demonstration to women, and more of a virtue (virility?) signal to other men. It is masculine brainworms, definitely.

            • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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              2 years ago

              Inter-masculine performative competition is about establishing maleness and domination as the basis for a person's valuation.

              Paradoxically, a man can talk about being with women, but actually spending time with women makes him look less macho.

              But to the people who replicate the dynamic, they do not recognize any contradiction.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Someone should make a ripoff of black rifle coffee but source all the beans from the Zapatistas and just pocket the necessary markup to run the online storefront.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://tacticalbabygear.com

      Their tag line is “ditch the girly baby gear”

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Rolling coal comes from the same fragility mindset, too. :pathetic:

  • American_Badass [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I've never done any organizing for like climate action or anything, but just talking with my hillbilly people, I always tell them that if they grew up outside enjoying the land like I did they'd be opposed to pollution. Basically, I imply that polluting is the soft liberal thing to do.

    Obviously this is only for individuals and wouldn't stop ExxonMobil from dumping a million gallons of oil in the ocean.

  • Juice [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I've said it before, folks: "Masks are mind control" is a pretty ironic take coming from a group of guys who would commit unspeakable acts of violence against their own grandmother, if a YouTube influencer with a beard told them it was gay not to do so.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fellas is it gay to provide a livable environment for future generations?

    Death to America

  • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Nothing says "Rough n' tough macho macho meathead." quite like caring so much about what other people think.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    I don't doubt this, but it's weird how they never come up with masculinity as the explanation for why the predominantly male leaders of the oil and gas, logging, and mining industries continue to kill the earth.

    like i'm not gonna shit on a field of research i don't have experience in, but like these are the behaviors they studied (not directly, but through mechanical turk survey):

    The description included five feminine PEBs (line drying washed clothes, decorate a room with light colors that reflect daylight, recycling, buy new clothes from a sustainable designer brand, and use reusable shopping bags), five neutral (buying energy efficient CFL and LED bulbs; unplug your chargers, which draw current when the devices battery is full; opening windows rather than using air-conditioning; use safety razors instead of disposable ones; and paying bills online), or five masculine PEBs (donating to a waterfowl sportsman’s group, adhere to a vehicle maintenance plan, keep car tires at the proper pressure, caulking windows and doors, and using online video gamesrather than purchasing video game disks;

    Activism is briefly mentioned as a masculine behavior in the intro, but otherwise not included in this study. In fact the focus of the study isn't on what actions are necessary to protect the environment and how our gendered social conditioning might hinder that, so much as on trying to determine where gender might be hiding in the broad field of potentially pro-environmental behaviors.

  • Plants [des/pair]
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    2 years ago

    Yep real men don't use the reusable bags.

    We just bare hand our groceries out like the macho tough guys we are.

    Honestly tho if I'm just grabbing a few thing I will totally do this

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I remember the first time I did this, felt really strange but now it seems totally normal.

      A smaller grocery store I sometimes go to will keep the boxes they get deliveries in and hand them out to people who buy a lot of stuff and don't have a bag, which is neat.

      • Plants [des/pair]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I go to Aldi a lot and they just shelve the products in their boxes from shipping so I'll just take an empty box when I shop there lol

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You don't use reusable bags because of toxic masculinity.

    I don't use reusable bags because I use them as trash bags and I'm lazy.

    We are not the same.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I find you can use them for both, I keep a bag full of bags in my car and a second bag full of bags in my room for my small trashcan.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    It would be so simple to do the Aldi thing everywhere and just charge for bags.

  • Bnova [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I used to bring reusable bags but then I got :party-cat: