Breaking the Gender Barrier

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:19 am

well, you nailed it until the heart. maybe if you have a skull EATING the heart...or a xenomorph chest-burster popping out of it...

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:27 am

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:This one. It was this, the fuzzy german one or nothing.

Man, you blew it. I was following your description and picturing you as a cute, innocent, girlish guy. With that thug look I won't go anywhere near you anymore.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:31 am

Would it make you feel better if that had been taken right after someone insulted his dancing?

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:10 am

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:I never really understood how SUVs replaced minivans. Sure they're hugse and roomy, but they have the same number of seats that a regular car has. Minivans have the capacity to carry more people. I guess it's all about image and status, yo. Who cares if it eats gas and you can't park it anywhere. Back in the "day," they were off road vehicles, but you couldn't take most of these new ones on a trail.

The thing with minivans... is people tended to buy them to cart around their kids. And people just don't have all *that* many kids these days. If you've got two kids, an SUV will suit you just as well as a minivan, but it'll look better on your driveway. (at least, that's what I assume people are thinking.)

The appeal of the minivan to people with only two kids was that you could load up tons of stuff besides your kids in it and go camping or whatever. The SUV appeals to that same "let's go camping!" instinct in its ads, even if people don't actually take them camping. In fact, the SUV is even better, because it *looks* like something you'd go camping with and thus relieves you of the effort of actually camping.

Kind of like putting on fake-tanning creme instead of going on vacation.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:24 am

MY SOCCER-MOM MINIVAN PWNS YOU ALL!

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:26 am

That would explain all those orange people I see driving SUVs.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:36 am

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout?

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:39 am

Noise Monkey wrote:Would it make you feel better if that had been taken right after someone insulted his dancing?

I guess without the hat and with some makeup he'd be hittable, so yeah.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:47 am

My work is done.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:29 pm

what is it that makes SUVs "exciting"? is it the way you can feel the car start to roll over when you go around tight corners?

(seriously though, this is what feminists have been working towards. dads can be the one who stays at home and nurtures the kids if they want, moms can be the breadwinners if they want. everyone who opposes feminism opposes freedom to choose for themselves, no matter what their sex.

it's sad to see so few willing to identify as "feminist" because opposition has redefined the word to mean either someone who wants women to have more rights or is a lesbian, sending everyone scurrying whenever the word comes up.)

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:42 pm

Yeah, people hear the word femenist and automatically think of militant man-haters. Movements and groups tend to get defined by the actions of the most extreme.

Noise Monkey wrote:My work is done.

Awesome.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:48 pm

I meant that the standard function, though not the prescribed function, of the SUV is a people mover for families, much the same as the mini-van, which, structurally, has about as much in common with the SUV as it does its predecessor, the station wagon.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:49 pm

grabmygoblin wrote:what is it that makes SUVs "exciting"? is it the way you can feel the car start to roll over when you go around tight corners?

No no, it's the way no one can see around you makes you the center of attention.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:24 pm

and I have to correct the seating thing. Someone said that SUVs seat as many as passanger cars, and not as many as Minivans. This is untrue. Most SUV modles are 7/8 passenger. They do make smaller SUVs that seat 4/5 passengers, but I hardly ever see them on the lot.

And I feel like cutting myself for understanding everything in OBS's posts

I've been working on thie goddamn car lot too long. I wanna be a girly girl! ;_;

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:27 pm

Huh? I understood it too and I don't even drive.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:28 pm

cjburgandy wrote:And I feel like cutting myself for understanding everything in OBS's posts I've been working on thie goddamn car lot too long. I wanna be a girly girl! ;_;

That means, by Sketchy's criteria, you are in fact more of a man than I am.

Congratulations.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:32 pm

OBS wrote:blah blah blah

You missed the point. No one cares how the damn things are put together. We're talking about what people use them for.

My basic opinion about why most people who like giant SUVs like them has to do with teeny tiny penises.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:33 pm

I miss our station wagon. It was awesome.
If/when I have kids.... totally a station wagon. It was much fun.

OBS wrote:
NakedElf wrote:
OBS wrote:blah blah blah
You missed the point. No one cares how the damn things are put together. We're talking about what people use them for.

My basic opinion about why most people who like giant SUVs like them has to do with teeny tiny penises.
Be ignorant and sexist.

OK.

Sketchywallflowr · Post by **Sketchywallflowr** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:48 pm

OBS wrote:
NakedElf wrote:
OBS wrote:blah blah blah
You missed the point. No one cares how the damn things are put together. We're talking about what people use them for.

My basic opinion about why most people who like giant SUVs like them has to do with teeny tiny penises.
Be ignorant and sexist.

True that. But there is no need for an SUV if you're just driving around town picking up your kids.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:30 pm

OBS wrote: Fine then.

My basic opinion about why most people drive at above the speed limit and endanger other people's lives has to do with having sand in their vagina.

OBS wrote:Sexism is a two-way street. Unfortunately, it's seldom seen that way.

Go double standards!

Honestly though, I agree with you.
But it's difficult to restrain oneself from poking fun at people who take themselves so seriously.