Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
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In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Where is lawbreaking not just visible, but designed to be seen? Where is antisocial behaviour worn as a badge of honour? Where is pleasure gained directly from causing distress? And where is reckless endangerment often ignored by the police or treated with the mildest of punishments? The answer is on the roads.

  • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    The sentence,

    Maybe, maybe not

    relates to the question,

    Is there any action that won’t trigger spite from this type of person?

    from the poster above.

    The phrase,

    I know for a fact

    refers to the phrase,

    this type of communication

    that being,

    The dude 6" off your bumper is not going to hear “petro-masculinity” and have a quiet contemplative moment about carbon emissions and road safety. He’s going to feel scolded, hear that you’re triggered and frightened of his masculinity, and then he’s going to start driving even more aggressively out of spite.

    which, of course, is a strict subset of “any action”. It is therefore entirely possible to have certain knowledge of one without certain knowledge of the other.

    Maybe you should learn how to read full sentences before you ask people if they think before writing?

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      He’s going to feel scolded, hear that you’re triggered and frightened of his masculinity, and then he’s going to start driving even more aggressively out of spite.

      HE FUCKING SHOULD. HE SHOULD BE TRIGGERED.

      You are completely missing the point in some silly fucking kindness competition.

      As for your rhetorical chops, construct better sentences bro. jfc

      • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        I haven’t taken any side in the kindness debate, I am merely taking issue with the fact that you lack basic reading comprehension skills and you’re being an arsehole to other people about it.

        Case in point:

        He’s going to feel scolded, hear that you’re triggered and frightened of his masculinity…

        HE FUCKING SHOULD. HE SHOULD BE TRIGGERED.

        Read that quote again. The scoldee is not the person who is triggered in that sentence. The scoldee imagines that that scolder is triggered.