If you read social media, it feels like “big car bad” is a very popular opinion. I don’t get it, why does one need to have a small penis to want a sports car? Maybe they just love big cars and that’s it.
Do drivers of large SUVs get a ton of hate irl, or is it just social media being social media?
Do SUV drivers usually get offended when they encounter “big car hate”, or do they laugh it off? What’s your hot take?
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Social media being social media.
It’s an internet thing.
If you read *other* social media, “big car *good*” is a very popular opinion. I don’t get it, why does one need to worry about what someone else drives?
The people driving those big trucks absolutely do not give a single shit what anyone thinks about them having those trucks and are sometimes emboldened by the incessant need those people have to worry about what other people drive or spend money on.
We all make an environmental impact on the planet, if someone driving an F250 is what you’ve convinced yourself is leading to the end of the polar bears, maybe consider what your impact on the world is…you can actually control that.
Trucks and SUVs are some of the best selling vehicles here, so it’s safe to say that lots of people like them.
Edit: I got a (mid-size) SUV for the first time recently, and there’s no going back. You can see in traffic so much better than in a sedan.
This always confused me about Europeans and Australians…do you not have trades over there? In my trade masonry where everything is ungodly heavy you absolutely need a 1 ton truck to transport all the tools for the trade from job site to job site and also concrete and many other trades are the same way…you gotta have a truck…the fact all these Europeans cant understand that is just odd.
I have a pick up truck, and I’ve always driven pick up trucks and I probably always will buy pick up trucks. I use them for their utility, but also they’re extremely comfortable and can be the perfect family vehicle.
I honestly don’t care what others, especially on the internet, have to say about my driving a pick up truck. It’s my money, my vehicle, I’ll buy and drive what I want and need.
I might look down on you for buying a comically large truck.
Big vehicles are very popular and generally don’t get hate. Occasional exceptions for vehicles that are modified in obnoxious and impractical ways.
The penis size thing is just a joke– “this person is not confident in their masculinity, and therefore feels the need to drive a hyper-masculine truck to project an image of masculinity”.
[Here](https://content.homenetiol.com/d8d98d96f81548a9abc58abc29a5fc22.jpg) are some [big vehicles](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/buying-a-minivan-lead-1625691357.jpg?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=980:*) that [most people](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1266928564/photo/dump-trucks-transporting-platinum-ore-for-processing.jpg?s=2048×2048&w=is&k=20&c=F4cpCpGZZ0IODoLTqn53ghOP4fqRNEeHc-t6tRI-4rs=) don’t [hate](https://fallschurchfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_0135.jpeg).
Here is a [big vehicle](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aniDDVHwkI4/maxresdefault.jpg) that does inspire hate for much of the population.
It’s just social media doing what social media does.
Some of it is exaggerated, but there is definitely a place for how our daily drivers have become larger and larger when a lot of people often don’t fully use these vehicles for what they were made for. Transporting a lot of goods such as a laborer’s tools, hauling a lot of stuff, off roading.
Now don’t get me wrong if I pull up to a rural southern Indiana diner, you’ll see people hauling hunting equipment and the pickup trucks have dirt on them and are likely being utilized very well. But in my suburban office park in the central flat part of the state, where the pickup trucks all look pristine, these are more status symbols.
I drive a huge truck because I need somewhere to put my prodigious hog while I’m driving.
I throw shade at my wife for her obnoxiously large SUV. While she may feel safer, it actually less safe for people in smaller cars, or myself who rides a bike everywhere.
You should see my town. I’m in Michigan and I dont have a truck. I sometimes think I’m alone.
People do get annoyed when vehicles take up space they’re not supposed to, like if they’re double parked or have part of their nose or tail blocking the walkway near their driveway. This can happen with any vehicle due to poor parking skills but is more common with large vehicles. And in the social media age, people like to snap a photo of things that annoy them.
Hating large vehicles simply for existing is a more niche political issue that doesn’t really reflect the average American. There are also folks who dislike what they perceive to be a needless display of wealth, which is where the small penis thing may come in regarding sports cars, the implication being that they’re overcompensating for an insecurity
Mall Terrain vehicles. Lol.
Reddit is weird when it comes to cars in general.
Yes, people actually large trucks.
In real life, the “big car bad” hate is more pushed on idiots who make it a personality trait. These are the people who puff black exhaust at stop lights and take the mufflers off their muscle cars. They have tiny penises.
People who drive large trucks are fine, large SUVs also fine. But people who are obnoxious with their things are stupid.
I’ve always wondered why penises come so quickly to mind for those people
For me, I have negatively skewed experiences with lifted pickup trucks, especially shiny ones that definitely aren’t used for work and are just show ponies.
More often than not, if I encounter one of these trucks, they drive discourteously at best, and aggressively dangerous at worst. Something about that kind of vehicle attracts angry assholes, hence the stereotype.
The idea of people in Wyoming hating on people with trucks is hilarious to me. The vast majority of cars on the road here are trucks or large SUVs. You’d be hating on like 90% of the population. It’s kind of the opposite here, people with little cars are made fun of for driving “silly little toy cars”. 😂
I hate big vehicles. They make the road unsafe for everyone else, so they just keep making them bigger. We shouldn’t even be driving at all. We are causing climate disasters with our combustion engines, factory farming, airplane travel, and industrial pollution.
Even my neighbor who drives a large truck for his job doesn’t really like it. But when it came time buy his current vehicle there wasn’t some secret f-150s that are a bit smaller these days.
Depends on where you live and what you do. I live out in the plains and have a Toyota Tundra, which is a rather large truck. You pretty much need one out here, especially if you work in construction or agriculture. No one gets upset about it because it is common.
I drive a big SUV, and I don’t have a penis at all. 🤷🏼♀️
Oh they’re very real lol
It’s just social media being social media. I drive a big ol’ lifted 4Runner and have never had anyone say anything about it. If they did, I would just laugh it off.
>Do drivers of large SUVs get a ton of hate irl, or is it just social media being social media?
It would be funny seeing some twit say this to a person’s face. No, they don’t get hate irl.
>Do SUV drivers usually get offended when they encounter “big car hate”, or do they laugh it off? What’s your hot take?
The average person doesn’t spend time in online spaces where these no-lifes congregate. They don’t encounter the hate.
Yes people often own large trucks. I’m not gonna say that most people who own them use them, but personally most of the people I know who have big trucks fit into one of two categories: rich and wanted a truck, or wanted a truck because they use them a lot.
One of my best friends just got a truck. He is an accountant, and if you met him professionally you would not think that he bought it to use. But he and his wife spend a *lot* of their fun time renovating their house themselves. They have redone nearly every room in the house at this point. I think that they hit a point where having their own truck was just practical for them
On the other hand, both sets of my next door neighbors are older and retired. Both of them have large trucks. While one set of neighbors is obsessed with gardening, and *might* have a reason to have a big truck, I have literally never seen him use it for plants or soil or what not. Neither truck has ever been dirty in a way that implied they were off roading. These folks are just well off and wanted a truck.
There are also a lot of folks who have them for work. Personally I know contractors, plumbers, electricians, ranchers, construction workers, building engineers, handymen, folks who collect scrap metal, and folks who deploy technology for work.
Back in the 80s I got a small pickup truck. It was unusual for a woman to drive a truck on Long Island back then.
I got it because I had been driving a big Buick while my friends all had sports cars. I was frequently stuck being the designated driver. Driving a two seater pickup eliminated that job.
I haven’t seen much of it, but the number of single people driving $80,000+ trucks that get 13 and then complain about gas prices is always amusing to me. The vast, vast, vast, vast, majority of people don’t need a Suburban. Don’t get me wrong, they are cool, and this last generation is the first one that I thought drove like something sane; but people don’t really need them. They just want them because it makes them feel big.
Well, the ever-increasing size of vehicles does genuinely annoy some people. Pedestrian deaths from vehicles are up partly because cars are so large now. It becomes self-perpetuating because it’s harder to see around all the big-ass cars if you don’t have one. If you see a pickup truck from the 90s, it looks closer to a normal car than the tanks we have now. The decrease in bed length to make room for four-door trucks also suggest people aren’t really habitually hauling lumber as much as they may claim, so pragmatic reasons are not the only factor and it becomes yet another culture war topic. That said room for child seats deep into childhood do play a roll in the spread of the SUV.
I roll my eyes at my neighbor who has to stand on a step stool to wash his truck and check the oil. Also, he has knocked over our mailbox and cable (Comcast) internet box thing that’s in the yard.
There’s definitely huge trucks, just not super common.
In some parts of the country, I think people genuinely “like” them, or maybe it would be more accurate that people there are truck enthusiasts, people see them as part of local culture, or people identify with the idea of having a truck.
But for the most part, I think the people who buy them fall into two categories:
– Perceived “need” for a truck. Sometimes it’s based on actually needing to haul stuff around or drive off-road in remote areas, but more often it’s the idea that they might someday need to haul something around. Also the perceived notion that trucks are “manly” while getting a minivan would be effiminate. And other lifestyle perception-based things. (“Everyone” in your neighborhood has one, you perceive the roads being bad or that you might someday need to drive in bad road conditions, etc.) Perception of trucks as “safer” vehicles, of course, too.
– You neither like trucks nor have an inflated perception of “needing” one, but the reality is that they are what is available and suit your purpose, so you just go with that. I kind of hate the light-duty compact SUVs that seem to be invading the market these days, but in another few years when it’s time to replace my family sedan, it’s probably what I’ll end up with because it is now what exists in my sector of the market. (Also, come on, they’re fricking station wagons, y’all.)