Women prefer Prius owners to Ferrari owners

Good grief, speak for yourself, neez! Not this woman. Although I have nothing against a truck if it's useful, like for contractors and ranchers (oh yes), the (sub)urban, modified truck leaves me quite cold. Colorado is chock full of men compensating for something with a big truck. Yuck. Double yuck.

 

Would it change you mind if it came with a gun rack.

 

Oh, the gun rack makes all the difference... I lived in Wyoming for a few years, and pretty much everyone drove pickups with gun racks. But then, they actually hunted, which I have no problem with.

 

If they hunted each other I would be all for guns.

Come to think of it, the only animal I have hunted since becoming an adult is human when I was in the army. Other than that I respect life in all its forms, except for humans that kill defenseless creatures. Those cowards deserve what they give.

 

Take with a large grain of salt --
A recent study came out that showed that women prefer 'bad boys' at the peak of their fertilization cycle, and nerd types at other times (like when they are thinking of marriage.)

Tough quandary

 

I'm a woman. I hardly understand my own kind... Enough said.

 

Also, were anyone to pull up in a Ferrari, I'd be looking at the car, not the driver.

 

So true!! The only girls that go for trucks are those that can fit somewhere in the redneck category. Educated and smart women do not go for guys with those jacked up trucks that have lift kits and have tires that are too large, or you need a ladder to get into. Those are the ones that guys hung those balls from, apparently they thought it was funny. It was far from funny. Trucks can serve a purpose, but modified ones are not attractive at all. Plus, since we are on a Prius forum, I think most of the ladies here would be turned off by anything that didn't get decent gas mileage.

 

Less money on fuel = more money to spend on your lady

 

I honestly prefer Prius drivers over expensive sportcar drivers. Only girls looking to marry into wealth look at Ferrari owners. That said.. the wealthy likes to hide their money. Good luck, girls.

Expensive cars = show offs, aggorant and snobby personalities. (No offense.) Why buy expensive car when you can invest in a house or anything else? Seriously $200k+ ... The car value drops the second it's driven.

 

Hhaha Very true

 

In defense of owning a Ferrari, I have driven 2 of them in my life and they are incredible performance machines. Beautiful in their mechanical design and purpose built execution. Just because someone may have the money to buy one and appreciate what it is doesn't mean they are just a dick showing off their net worth. If I were a rich man, I own one. But, I would still drive my Prius because it is still the best car I have ever been in and rich or not, 50-60 mpg is more satisfying than 500-600 horses on a daily basis.

 

I think the vehicle a person drives or owns can be a conversation starter, or an ice breaker.
But ultimately, attraction has to be sustained or created by the people themselves.

You can get attention, or start a conversation as an owner of both a Prius or a Ferrari.

It is harder to run out of gas on a date with a Prius.

 

Well, we sort of have been doing it since the dawn of man. We eat meat by genetic design. Vegetarians generally need to take supplements or fortified foods to cope with not eating meat. While we have laws to make animal slaughter a little more humane. It really isn't much different than a bullet to the heart. In fact, if a cow doesn't take well to being stunned, they shoot it in the head with a 9mm bullet. Most of the time the cow is stunned and then bludgened in the head to knock it out before their gutted. Hunters always try to be humane and go for an instant kill. Doesn't always happen, but they try. It's not about getting their jollies of killing something, it's about getting back to nature and learning how to fend for yourself. It's part of the circle of life. Dump most people off in the middle of the woods, they would die within a few weeks because they're worthless. They can't fend for themselves, they have no clue where food comes from.

I don't know about needing a gun rack in a truck. But some women like a handyman, someone to fix things and not be a worthless tool that likes to talk themselves up but really can't really do much of anything with their own hands. A truck goes hand in hand with that. You can pick stuff up at home depot, or get mulch for the garden. A truck is about being a man and doing stereotypical man things. A prius is totally the opposite of that, and unless you're in california with HOV lanes, single men generally don't drive prius's, at least not here in PA. It's like a girl i dated in college that couldn't cook, and this is not the 50's where women stayed at home and cooked and cleaned, i'm not saying that at all. I can cook and i enjoy cooking, but it was just simply weird that she couldn't cook. I just didn't see her as being nurturing or womanly because she couldn't do stereotypically girly things. It became unattractive because she wasn't very maternal.

I think that's the stigma of men driving prius's here in the states. I don't know any single men or have never seen any single men driving prius's. It's seen as the opposite of being manly in general. As a guy, if you're got other stuff going for you, then that can make up for the stigma. But in general, it's almost like you have to justify owning one as a man. Like you have a long commute, or you drive all city miles etc....

FYI: I don't hunt, and only went hunting once. But i work with lots of hunters and when deer season starts it's a ghost town at work. My dad is also a hunter, and took me once but i couldn't take the shot. He only ever took me fishing after that. I do drive a prius, and do not own a truck, but drive plenty of trucks at work. They are really nice vehicles, and drive like cadillacs on the highway, and i may consider owning one in the future when their MPG's go up. My posts are simply as objective as possible.

 

This thread sure took off on a different tangent. From Ferrari's and Women's preferences to guns, hunting, trucks and human eating habits, it sounds like someone's bizarre dream. All I know is, if I could afford a Ferrari I would probably drive one. I'd sure like a nice pick up truck too! Oh! Don't forget the gun collection. That all being said, I'll eat just about any meat (no road kill) and veggies.

 

Hogwash.

I am a vegan for the past ~ 45 years, and as I physician I can tell you that the "genetic" argument is nonsense* and that I am quite healthy, thank you. In fact, I am quite a bit healthier than the community at large.


You reminded me of an enjoyable class in Philosophy I audited while in Medical school. The argument proposed went like this:

A healthy person has everything a person needs for health and none of what makes a person unhealthy;
I want to be healthy,
So I should eat healthy human to be sure I get everything I need and none of what I don't need.

Being an omnivore can have a survival advantage, or not. Presumably the appendix was useful sometime in the past as well, as was the tail we used to have. As you know, we cut out appendices, and we do not stick tails on our butts.

 

I may not have a tail but I do know that bacon is good.

 

I would say this.
In the US, I think the general diet is way too meat dependent or focused. 1/4 lb hamburgers, 1/2 hamburgers, Steaks, Breakfasts consisting of huge portions of bacon, ham, sausage. In general, I think we eat way too much meat.

Disclaimer, is that I was a vegetarian for about 2 years of my life. I felt good, and enjoyed it. That being said, today, I call myself a "Mostlytarian". By that I mean, that I try to focus more on vegetables/fruits and non-meat choices, BUT I will occasionally have some meat.

It's my choice, and I think that it's the healthiest. Because while I agree that the general US diet is horribly tipped towards too much meat consumption, nobody has ever been able to prove to me that the human body is best designed to ONLY eat fruits and vegetables. There are protein combinations in meat that are hard to duplicate outside of the non-meat eating realm.

And....it's good. As long as I'm not doing every night, or even every week, an occasional Steak, I think is fantastic. So while I can no longer stand at the Farmers Market with my fully committed Vegetarian and Vegan brethren, for they might catch the occasional "stench" of a steak or hamburger, I'm happy with the diet I embrace. Occasional meat binges, and just an eye towards minimizing meat consumption at all other times.

 

Well i disagree, I eat Paleo. In Paleo, our philosphy is that we're genetically predispositioned to eat meats and general foods that can be gathered. It's about how our bodies were evolved to eat during the paleolithic era before mass food processing and production started. It has worked out well for me, i'm lean, very muscular, and athletically built. I certainly wouldn't call it cowardly to eat an animal. From my point of view, we're designed to do so.

I've only known 1 vegan closely. He was very thin and boney. Almost no muscle, he liked to run, but he was all bones. Looked very similar to steve jobs before he died, Jobs was a fruitarian BTW. He did pride himself on being thin, but he seemed very fragile to me. I've known other vegans in college, i'm an engineer and we had tons of Indian and Pakistani students in engineering, as they also do in the medical field i'm sure. Many of them were vegetarian, most likely vegan. Cows are sacred in India, and i never saw them eating meat as part of their culture. None of them struck me as what i would call "healthy". I can't tell you what foods are considered "healthy", and what nutrients we can live without or exactly which ones we need, that's still widely debated. As in math, there are multiple ways to achieve the same results, so who knows what the correct path is. I can only tell you that processed foods are unhealthy, everyone agrees to that statement.

 

It was also a time when the average life expectancy not including stillborns was ~ 25. You can live on pizza and alcohol if you life expectancy goals are that modest. The genetic argument is hogwash. The best you can say is that you have biologic tools to digest meat, just as you have the biologic tools to digest a lot of plant life. You should note however, that you do not have the biologic machinery to dispose of excess cholesterol or excess Iron.