Jen SorensenAug 26, 2023
What if we branded environmentalism as "masculine"?
#climatechange #climatecrisis #environment #gender
Show threadSolarbird Aug 26, 2023

@jensorensen Realtalk: the massive upsurge in truck and SUV sizes are are about fear.

It's the bunker brutalism of the 1970s (which is what ruined brutalism's reputation, really), but this time vehicles. All these buildings became bunkers because the war generation was _terrified_ of the civil rights movement and 70s crime so every new building for a while there became just a bunker.

This is the same urge, but it's vehicles.

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@moira @jensorensen well and you know lower taxes and safety standards:
Aug 26, 2023 at 6:55pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadSolarbird Aug 26, 2023

@glassdelusion @jensorensen Sure. Same in the 70s in a lot of ways, because bunker brutalism was also _cheap_ brutalism. (And that's also in the context of "urban renewal.")

doesn't mean bunkering wasn't an important part of the mix, and in this context, highly relevant.

you can build giant vehicles that quality for those lower taxes and safety standards _without_ making them look like angry tanks. but they're _choosing_ to make them look like angry tanks.

_that's_ the zeitgeist.