You know the term "petro-masculinity"? (If not: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/the-fossil-fuel-debates-most-bizarre-byproduct-petro-masculinity/ )

I'm starting to think that instead of the hollowed-out term "reply guy," maybe we could use something like "positivist-masculinity" or "toxic positivism." That sort of objectivism / positivism-as-ideology is rampant on here, and it's equally tedious and toxic.

I should re-read Henry Giroux's "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History," but here's a bit of what I've got in mind: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2016-week-02