Daggest explains that “Petro-masculinity approaches masculinity as a socially constructed identity that emerges ‘within a gender order that defines masculinity in opposition to femininity, and in so doing, sustains a power relation between men and women as groups”. In other words, Daggett prefers to keep her criticisms out of the Third World and explains that petromasculinity “defend[s] the endangered status quo, entrenching the petrocultures that have historically propped up Anglo-European fossil-burning men. The West has become the driving force of this new field of toxic masculinity. Daggett tries to identify how new forms of gender bias or toxic masculinity with terms like harpo-masculinity, carbo-masculinity, turbo-masculinity and so on. 

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