Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?

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If you’re a dude and you drive a Miata, you must be gay, right? If you’re a woman and you drive an Outback, you must be a raging lesbian, correct? Not so fast–here we have the New York Times reporting on one of those subjects you’ve snickered about with your bff and thought of in your head, but wait a minute…are these rides “Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?”

Indeed, the extravagant displays of muscle car machismo and sensuous, high-design femininity on display this week at the New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center would seem to cry out for deconstruction along gender- and sexual-identity lines.

But to some people, such stereotyping is homophobia, pure and simple. A poll seeking to determine the most gay automobiles, conducted by a South African Web site, was a topic of heated interest last December on Gizmodo, the New York-based technology blog, where one reader wrote: “Since when are cars gay or straight? We’re really polling people’s prejudices here.”

Others, though, including gay theorists, say many gay motorists happily embrace certain cars as reflections of identity.

Here is the full article in case you are questioning your wheels…

A fellow blogger (I’m sorry journalist) is unhappy about the way auto blogs are spreading more rumors than actual news. Well, we here at the cdF don’t want to be such a blogger. The Fetish crew is going on record to state that 90% of our stories revolve around our opinions and in no way should be used as reliable intel to spread to major publications. Now I feel better.

Here is a quote from the blog……article

“But the media, including car magazines, are being led around by small-time bloggers who have never signed up for a journalism class, let alone stayed awake during one. And they’re running every stupid little rumor extant without checking up on them. Before New York, trained journalists were chasing bloggers’ stories that the Corvette Blue Devil and BMW X6 would appear at that show, as ridiculous as that sounds to anyone who’s covered at least a couple New York shows. It’s not a big enough event, it’s not the right event, for those two cars.”

He got me, I went to an art school, so I didn’t have to even try to stay awake through a journalism class. Thank goodness because I wouldn’t have made it. We may not be the best writers but we do have a Fetish for design. So don’t take us too seriously and enjoy our honest comments of what we think.