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... Toyota: the most gay automaker on planet Earth? ~

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  1. asjoseph

    asjoseph Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile

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    ... well-well-well! Lookie-what we have here:

    Robby Starbuck Targets Toyota As Anti-Woke Crusade Expands Across Corporate America | ZeroHedge

    What do we find? So happens, we're the darling of the LGBTQ community? The Toyota people laughing it up, racking up a 100/100 CEI score from the HRC, 16 years straight, taking a leadership role on the pedophile parade?

    Sic-'um, Robbie! Grrrrr! Go get 'um, boy! Gnaw their ankles off!


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    Read title, thought; No, that's subaru's title.
     
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    I thought the stereotype had Subaru matched up with the lesbian demographic (didn't their marketing team even kinda wink at that in some ads?), but maybe that still leaves room for other car makers to vie for the same title with the remaining letters of GBTQ+....
     
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    uh-oh, our daughter drives a subie...:cautious:
     
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    Gee....
    I thought we were supposed to be well beyond using 'gay' as a pejorative.

    Humans gonna human.


    @ Subies: Um..... 'sturdy' single New Englanders? :unsure:
     
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    I am a Toyota Retiree after working there almost 30 years, married with a number of kids, - and to think - I didn't even know I was gay for working at Toyota!

    You learn something new every day.
     
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    So does one of my sisters, but not the lesbian one. So much for stereotypes.
     
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    After several threads like this, I imagine a pile of pasta on the floor in front of a refrigerator. And well-fed cockroaches.
     
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    homophobic prius owner, who would have thunk
     
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    They should be gay as successful as they have been making cars.
     
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    No no no....everybody knows the gayest car is the PT Cruiser and Subaru is the queen of the lezos, hands down!
     
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    I thought that the most Lebanese car was the Toyota Hilux........:unsure:
     
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    I seem to remember an old Car Talk episode that covered this. Lesbians leaned towards Foresters and Outbacks, gay men towards Jettas and something else. Though there were lots of contenders.

    The out-ed lesbian in my close family started with a classic 20th Century stick-shift F-250, while her classmates were driving new-century F-150 slushboxes, then took over her parents' first Outback. Her parents bought that Subaru based partly on my own Subaru experience, a Legacy (Outback precursor) followed by a Forester. I'm not sure what still-closeted ones may be driving.

    Here are the first related 'news' articles to pop up. Toyota gets several mentions, but does not appear to be a leader:

    Gay-Friendly Cars: Is Subaru Number One? - CBS News
    How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians - The Atlantic
    https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/gay-friendly-automakers-gm-and-subaru-lead
    https://www.cartalk.com/content/ultimate-gay-and-lesbian-cars-all-time-1
    https://www.cars.com/articles/what-are-the-top-gay-friendly-cars-1420663310253/
    TOP 10 Lgbt Cars You Need To Check Out - Inckredible

    The Best-Selling Cars Among LGBT Consumers Are… | Gaywheels
    The Gayest Cars In The Los Angeles Pride Parade Ranked
     
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    Ha Ha.
    Seems to me Prius' have always had a stereotype joke attached to them (V model excluded :) )
    "Lesbians leaned towards Foresters and Outbacks, gay men towards Jettas ..." IMO those (Subaru & VW) take the award of most "gay".
    Honorable mention to the latest VW Beetle as not a macho (macho defined as the opposite of gay) vehicle.

    FWIW Toyota GR86, Landcrusier, Tacoma/ Tundra all seem to have "machismo", so Toyota as the "most gay automaker", I'd vote no.
    Not sure how to rate the Crown, Camry, or Corolla :)
     
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    I'm not sure how well that definition works. Pretty sure I've met a few gay men who would out-macho many a random heterosexual.

    Digressing a little, I read an interesting quote lately from a Latino guy, Adrian Fontes, talking about 'machismo' and 'machito':


    "... the Latino dad. He loves his family. He loves families generally. He’s got a good sense of humor. He’s warm. …. He’s just there to support, and he takes great pride in the success of others,” Fontes said. “‘Machito’ – it’s less mature. It has sort of to do with the big trucks and the loud music version of the Latino men. And there’s plenty of those guys out there, don’t get me wrong. But we grow out of that pretty quickly.”
     
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    Are you suggesting that The Village People's Macho Man has straight-male overtones, not gay?

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