• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Some men buy big trucks for the same reason some men buy sports cars or super cars, expensive luxury cars or classic cars. They’re signifiers. They signify a man’s masculinity and status, depending on how masculinity is defined in their culture. In some cultures, a big, powerful truck represents masculinity, in other cultures, where masculinity is more about wealth and class, it can be represented by a very expensive car. Cars have been used as signifiers by men pretty much from the beginning.

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      20 days ago

      Except half these people dont have proper income to justify the expense. So in practice most are poorer than they other wise would be.

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      20 days ago

      Girls don’t like boys

      Girls like cars and money!

      Good Charlotte

      It’s bait. Buys don’t actually like cars.