🐱 Men Don’t Recycle to Avoid Looking Gay, New Study Says

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Is there anything toxic masculinity can’t do? Protect the ozone, apparently.

New research has found that one of the deterrents for going green among men is the fear of their sexual orientation coming under question, according to the journal Sex Roles.

Researchers found in a previous 2016 study that environmental consciousness fell into perceived ideas of masculinity and femininity, with eco-friendly behavior widely perceived as feminine. In this new study, 960 participants were asked to evaluate whether fictional characters felt “feminine” or “masculine,” based on several environmentally friendly activities such as paying bills online, turning off the air conditioner, caulking windows, recycling, or using reusable shopping bags. Participants were then made to give their impression based on a 10-point scale from heterosexual to homosexual. Kinsey is shaking!

Participants who learned that a male fictional character exhibited behaviors associated with women said that they were "uncertain of his heterosexual identity," the researchers write. In the example of the reusable shopping bag or recycling, men across the board deemed it as “feminine.” Therefore, those "perceived as being more likely to have positive feminine than positive masculine traits" were not associated with manliness.

Professor Janet K. Swim at Pennsylvania State University who led the research determined that some men might be put off behaving in a more eco-friendly manner because of these stereotypes.

The research suggested that if being seen as heterosexual is important to them, men will opt out of gender nonconforming behaviors, with a stigma by that association. A latter part of the study showed that “men were most likely to socially distance themselves” from gender nonconforming behavior — a social consequence to the construct of gender at large.

“People may avoid certain behaviors because they are managing the gendered impression they anticipate others will have of them,” Swim said.

I mean, the earth literally might be uninhabitable by 2040, but no homo.
 
My apartment complex doesn't have a separate bin for recycling and i'm damn sure not making weekly trips to the recycling plant myself.
 
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Me:
paying bills online
Y

turning off the air conditioner
TEXAS, FUCK OFF

caulking windows
Y

recycling
I already pay for garbage. I Refuse to have a second garbage bill

using reusable shopping bags
If I remember. I usually take a soft cooler for eye scream.

None of this is anything but pragmatic.
I pay bills online but I still make companies mail them to me because: fuck you!
I’m not saving them money on paper and shipping with literally no benefit to me.
 
I'm not afraid for my masculinity when I look the cashier in the eyes and demand fewer plastic bags at checkout, mostly because I'm swamped in them at home from store policy apparently being that if two item's don't share the same first letter, they get separate bags, go through the express with a banana bunch, box of crackers and 2lt of soda, and they try to give them each a separate bag as if they'll contaminate each other.... lady, they'll all fit in one bag and I'm smart enough to lay it in the car trunk with the bananas up, and if I accidentally squish em' , well, my dumbass fault, I won't demand to see your manager... I only want ONE bag.
 
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your post gave me cancer anyway.
The solution is a pro-recycling version of this campaign.
Old Onion content is so spot-on. Can we get out of Clownworld so I can stop spamming their videos?
 
i dont know if its true but i aint gay and i aint recycling.

its all going in the same palce anyway since china is not importing shit plastic anymore.
 
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I dont get it, why do you not have different bins for different stuff?
 
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