Fun bit of introspection: I believe most SUVs and trucks are actually owned by women. The primary driver for big cars isn’t just male toxicity - it’s feelings of safety, extended to children. Many women have very genuine reasons to feel vulnerable anywhere they walk. That changes when they’re behind an 8000-ton tank.
This is not true. While SUV popularity among women is increasing for the reason you describe, they make only 52% of owners (proportional to percentage of women in society). Trucks are still overwhelmingly owned by men.
Thought I’d clear that up so nobody thinks they learned some “facts” that turn out to be fake.
@Katana314@moriquende SUVs have undergone an interesting transformation in their marketing and in how conformist people perceive them. When they first exploded in popularity, they were seen as manly cars. Now in order to keep expanding the oversized car market, they’ve become the old minivans and a man, even if he lives in a city, is told SUVs are for women and he has to have a giant pickup truck to keep his “man card”.
@Katana314@moriquende Another factor is that when women enter into patriarchal marriages, a lot of them allow their husbands to choose their vehicles for them. Certainly there are single women and married ones who buy SUVs for a variety of reasons, but there are also a lot of women who let men choose their cars for them, leading to a car choice that is not necessarily optimal for the safety, comfort, or preferences of the person driving it.
A lot of the cars now are bigger. They don’t look sleek or interesting. They look overweight. Cumbersome.
I really dislike those big-ass trucks with the bed that never gets used taking up a lot of space in the city.
I feel like one could draw a connection between this and the obesity problems in the US.
Fun bit of introspection: I believe most SUVs and trucks are actually owned by women. The primary driver for big cars isn’t just male toxicity - it’s feelings of safety, extended to children. Many women have very genuine reasons to feel vulnerable anywhere they walk. That changes when they’re behind an 8000-ton tank.
This is not true. While SUV popularity among women is increasing for the reason you describe, they make only 52% of owners (proportional to percentage of women in society). Trucks are still overwhelmingly owned by men.
Thought I’d clear that up so nobody thinks they learned some “facts” that turn out to be fake.
I apologize if I stated that in a way disposed to overinterpretation; 52% is still “most”, but you’re right, it is a slim majority.
It was only meant to be interesting to those who would’ve thought women owners would be a minority - that masculinity was the main selling point.
@Katana314 @moriquende SUVs have undergone an interesting transformation in their marketing and in how conformist people perceive them. When they first exploded in popularity, they were seen as manly cars. Now in order to keep expanding the oversized car market, they’ve become the old minivans and a man, even if he lives in a city, is told SUVs are for women and he has to have a giant pickup truck to keep his “man card”.
@Katana314 @moriquende Another factor is that when women enter into patriarchal marriages, a lot of them allow their husbands to choose their vehicles for them. Certainly there are single women and married ones who buy SUVs for a variety of reasons, but there are also a lot of women who let men choose their cars for them, leading to a car choice that is not necessarily optimal for the safety, comfort, or preferences of the person driving it.
Yea, now they’re just running over other peoples children instead