Misogyny, meet hypocrisy: Climate deniers go after AOC, Greta Thunberg with sexist attacks

[jpak]

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/30/misogyny-meet-hypocrisy-climate-deniers-go-after-aoc-greta-thunberg-with-sexist-attacks/

Climate change may not seem like a gendered issue, but leave it to conservatives to inject sexism into everything they do.

That much was made evident on Thursday, when the right-wing Media Research Center tweeted out a video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talking about the need for rapid decarbonization to prevent catastrophic environmental changes due to climate change. The video is labeled "Shallow Thoughts" and treacly music is played behind it, in order to indicate how viewers are meant to read this video, which is as an indictment of Ocasio-Cortez's intelligence.

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Unfortunately, Thunberg was also greeted by a wave of misogynist nastiness, largely coming from allegedly grown men in both Europe and the United States. The attacks on Thunberg were in the same vein as those on Ocasio-Cortez, accusing her of being too stupid to know what she's talking about and denying that her voice is one worth honoring. A writer for the conservative Washington Examiner claimed that Thunberg is a victim of "child abuse" and that her mother "pimps their kid out," explicitly drawing a line between forced sex work and climate activism.

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"While these examples might feel like mere coincidence to some," Martin Gelin at the New Republic argues, "the idea that white men would lead the attacks on Greta Thunberg is consistent with a growing body of research linking gender reactionaries to climate-denialism."

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[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility.

[GoCubsGo]

2. I wish I could say I was surprised by this.

But, sadly...

[Beringia]

3. They don't honor their Mother or Mother Earth

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[CousinIT]

5. Climate change IS a gendered issue. We call it "mother Earth" because SHE sustains us all

Men who cannot respect women, likely cannot respect their mothers and wives, WILL NEVER respect the Earth or value all that it does to sustain human life.

It's that simple.

And it IS a gendered issue.

Misogyny and climate change denial go hand in hand for that reason.

It's probably not 100% true that every climate change denier is a sexist pig, but I bet it's more than half, well more than half. So it's a safe bet that if someone is sexist, they are a climate change denier, and vice versa.

Not in ALL cases, but I'd wager it's true in most of them.