Kav and Marzi have had to al wh bullyg and harassment to nvce motorists and bikers that EVs are not gay.
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“ELECTRIC VEHICL ARE GAY”
* electric cars gay *
When he told his biker mat that she was gettg an electric vehicle, they said: “Electric vehicl are gay, mate! “Let’s have a drag race, ” he says to his mat — “your bike, my EV — we’ll soon see if EVs are gay. [Edor’s note: There are clearly ser issu wh the phrase and suatns regardg “EVs are gay.
Last month, Ford created a one-off Ranger Raptor wh a LGBTQ+ rabow livery rponse to a hateful ment on social media plag that the tck's Performance Blue lor was "very gay. When Universal Pictur altered the trailer for s upg Ron Howard-directed edy The Dilemma to remove a joke about how “electric rs are gay, ” set off a miature ntroversy about e of the word “gay” as a pejorative, pecially such an uncreative eratn as “electric rs are gay. ” After all, maybe right now is not such a good time to be throwg that around, what wh the entire untry tryg to nvce gay teens not to kill themselv, bee ostensibly one day they’ll get olr and fally be a place where llg somethg or someone “gay”—you know, “gay” like an electric r, which is gay somehow—isn’t an sult.
RON HOWARD: "IF I'M NOT ALLOWED TO LL ELECTRIC RS 'GAY,' ENDANGERS EDY"
Whether you saw the argument as a timely and important issue, or much ado over what is, let’s face , a throwaway joke a middlebrow Ron Howard film livered by middlebrow actor Vce Vghn that’s gotten more attentn than probably serv due to s tangential nnectn to a timely and important issue, both Vghn and now Howard have an altogether different take—that ’s a threat to edy as we know time David Spa put David Bowie his placeOffEnglishA uple of weeks ago, Vghn issued a statement sayg that jok like “electric rs are gay” help to “brg together” and “break tensn” by jokg about our differenc, bee gay people are jt so tense the days. Well anyway, over the weekend, Howard issued his own plementary statement a very long, kd of preachy e-mail to the Los Angel Tim, sentially argug that, even though gay people probably don't need any extra sh right now g om a Ron Howard/Vce Vghn pic of all plac, if he allows himself to be “strong-armed” to changg the joke, would be nyg edy’s right to be offensive as a means to provokg thought. As we said before, the timels of the trailer—and the fact that cid wh the “It Gets Better” mpaign and some of the most fervent discsn about the bullyg of gays this natn has ever had—undoubtedly ntributed to the sensivy wh which was received.
And fely there have been other movi and TV shows who have ma “this is gay” jok whout Anrson Cooper llg them out. But if storytellers, edians, actors and artists are strong armed to makg creative chang, will endanger edy as both entertament and a provoker of, fair pot, but keep md that this is all fense of keepg the joke “electric rs are gay, ” which only gets ls funny the more you hear .
Perhaps ’s an illtratn that people who rort to g “gay” as a go-to punchle are part of a lazy, unfunny, slowly dyg breed that should be mocked for their lack of creativy?