petro-masculinity

"Big men drive big trucks that roll coal" (see Reply All podcast episode #170)

Feeling the need to own and drive an excessively large truck as part of your identity, but never having loads that require an engine of that size.

The narrative of righteous fossil democracy is crucial not only to American identity writ large, but to its hegemonic white masculinities, through the rosy nostalgia afforded by the petro-masculinity identity. (Daggett, 2018)

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