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• “ELECTRIC VEHICL ARE GAY”
• ARE ELECTRIC CARS GAY, OR IS VCE VGHN AN IDT? OR, BOTH?BY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 11, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUNIVERSAL PICTUR FOUND SELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF A STEAMG PILE OF PK RAGE THIS WEEK, WHEN BOTH THE SILVER FERRET, ANRSON COOPER, AND THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN (GLAAD) TOOK TO TASK FOR A PEJORATIVE E OF THE WORD “GAY” THE TRAILER OF S UPG MOVIE THE DILEMMA. IN THE CLIP—AND, ONE SUPPOS, THE RRELATIVE MOVIE—A CHARACTER PLAYED BY BOX OFFICE-KRYPTONE VCE VGHN IS DISCSG NSUMER PERCEPTNS OF ELECTRIC RS AND SAYS “ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY.” HE THEN GO ON TO QUALIFY, PILG SULT ON JURY: “NOT HOMOSEXUAL GAY. BUT MY-PARENTS-ARE-CHAPERONG-THE-DANCE GAY.”SHUDR. AT A TIME WHEN NUMERO STARS, PSDO-STARS, AND NOT-FOR-PROF ANIZATNS LIKE THE GAY LBIAN STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK (GLSEN) ARE ATTEMPTG—SUCCSFULLY, STUDI SHOW —TO CHANGE KIDS’ BEHAVR WH REGARD TO G GAY AS A SYNONYM FOR LAME, UGLY, MORONIC, OR DISTASTEFUL, THE EXTRAORDARILY TENTNAL E OF THE TERM THIS WAY SEEMS NOT ONLY MEAN-SPIRED, DOUCHEY, AND SPERATE, BUT FORMIDABLY UN-FUNNY. (SORT OF LIKE VCE VGHN!) YET AS THE THOR OF A WEEKLY GAY R LUMN HERE AT , I N ALMOST HEAR THE HEAR MORONS-WHO-LOVE-TO-TENTNALLY-IGNORE-ALL-NTEXT ASKG SO HOW E YOU GET TO LL RS GAY, AND THE BLOWHARD BLOAT OM THE FRAT PACK DON’T? WELL, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER TAKEN SEMTICS OR BEEN MA TO UNRSTAND THE BASIC UNRPNGS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, I’LL EXPLA: ALL SPEECH IS NOT EQUAL. IT HAS DIFFERENT SHAS OF MEANG PENDG ON WHO IS SAYG , WHAT NDN AND SUATN IS BEG LIVERED, WHO IS THE TEND DIENCE, AND WHETHER OR NOT HAS OBJECTIVE HUMORO MER. WHEN I’M WRG ABOUT GAY RS—AND I ALWAYS AM—I’M TALKG JOCULARLY, FACETLY, AND FARCILLY ABOUT THEM ACTUALLY BEG GAY, AS , HOMOSEXUAL: HANDSOME, WELL-SIGNED, PREDATORY, PROMISCUO, VIRILE, MCULAR, AND/OR LIKELY TO BE THE LT OBJECT OF AN MALE, MAN-LOVG TOPHILE. IN THIS AME OF REFERENCE, LLG A R “GAY” IS NOT ONLY SPECIFIC, SARSTIC, OVERTLY NONSENSIL, AND ROOTED A PARTICULAR MUNY (ME, THE GAY ONE), ’S ALSO, GENERALLY, PLIMENTARY, AND (HOPEFULLY) IL. AN OVERHYPED, UNRPERFORMG, STRAIGHT ACTOR LLG ELECTRIC RS “GAY” SOLELY AS AN SULT, YET ANOTHER PATHETIC AND DOOMED BROMANCE FLICK, DON’T MEET ANY OF THE CRERIA. (PARTICULARLY WHEN HE’S PLAYG A CHARACTER WE’RE MEANT TO LIKE. IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TOTAL A-HOLE, THE SUATN MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.)PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS, CREATG AND LIVERG SULTS FOR ELECTRIC RS, WHATEVER FORM, IS AN CREASGLY LAME AND OUTMOD PROPOSN. PRODUCTN RS LIKE THE NISSAN LEAF, CHEVY VOLT, FISKER KARMA, AND MY STALKG PARTNER THE TLA ROADSTER ARE ALREADY MOVG THE BAR OF NSUMER PERCEPTNS TOWARD THE POSIVE, PRACTIL, AND SPORTY, AND HOT AND HUNKY FUTURE VEHICL LIKE THE PORSCHE 918, AUDI E-TRON, AND JAGUAR C-X75 PROMISE TO NTUE THAT TREND. AS MY IEND JAMIE KMAN RECENTLY WROTE AS HIS (WNG) ENTRY A NEW YORK TIM BATE ON ELECTRIC VEHICL, “THE ADVANTAG [OF EVS] ARE HUGELY RELEVANT AND UNNIABLE.” HE WAS TALKG MALY ABOUT THEIR ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARED TO THE TERNALLY BTED. BUT ADD QUIET OPERATN, PROJECTED ENHANCEMENTS BATTERY RANGE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND STANT-ON POWER—ELECTRIC VEHICL LIVER ALL OF THEIR ACCELERATIVE THST THE MOMENT YOU H THE GAS—AND I’M NFINT WE’RE GOG TO BE JUMP-STARTG JOUL OF NSUMER NVERSNS THE NEXT FEW YEARS. THE GAYS ARE KNOWN AS EARLY ADOPTERS—WE PNEERED URBAN REVALIZATN, DIS, AND MANSPG, TO NAME JT A FEW MAJOR SOCIETAL NOVATNS—SO I’M GRABBG THIS ONE BACK OM MR. VGHN. I’D LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RERD: ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY. AS HOMOSEXUAL. AND THIS IS NO SULT; ’S A PK-AND-GREEN RALLYG CRY. SO WATCH THIS SPACE THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FOR MORE EXTENSIVE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE VERAGE.[HAT-TIP TO RAY WERT.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISBRETT BERK

“ELECTRIC VEHICL ARE 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.

Universal Pictur found self on the receivg end of a steamg pile of Pk Rage this week, when both the Silver Ferret, Anrson Cooper, and the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) took to task for a pejorative e of the word “gay” the trailer of s upg movie The Dilemma. In the clip—and, one suppos, the rrelative movie—a character played by box office-Kryptone Vce Vghn is discsg nsumer perceptns of electric rs and says “electric rs are gay.

ARE ELECTRIC CARS GAY, OR IS VCE VGHN AN IDT? OR, BOTH?BY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 11, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUNIVERSAL PICTUR FOUND SELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF A STEAMG PILE OF PK RAGE THIS WEEK, WHEN BOTH THE SILVER FERRET, ANRSON COOPER, AND THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN (GLAAD) TOOK TO TASK FOR A PEJORATIVE E OF THE WORD “GAY” THE TRAILER OF S UPG MOVIE THE DILEMMA. IN THE CLIP—AND, ONE SUPPOS, THE RRELATIVE MOVIE—A CHARACTER PLAYED BY BOX OFFICE-KRYPTONE VCE VGHN IS DISCSG NSUMER PERCEPTNS OF ELECTRIC RS AND SAYS “ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY.” HE THEN GO ON TO QUALIFY, PILG SULT ON JURY: “NOT HOMOSEXUAL GAY. BUT MY-PARENTS-ARE-CHAPERONG-THE-DANCE GAY.”SHUDR. AT A TIME WHEN NUMERO STARS, PSDO-STARS, AND NOT-FOR-PROF ANIZATNS LIKE THE GAY LBIAN STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK (GLSEN) ARE ATTEMPTG—SUCCSFULLY, STUDI SHOW —TO CHANGE KIDS’ BEHAVR WH REGARD TO G GAY AS A SYNONYM FOR LAME, UGLY, MORONIC, OR DISTASTEFUL, THE EXTRAORDARILY TENTNAL E OF THE TERM THIS WAY SEEMS NOT ONLY MEAN-SPIRED, DOUCHEY, AND SPERATE, BUT FORMIDABLY UN-FUNNY. (SORT OF LIKE VCE VGHN!) YET AS THE THOR OF A WEEKLY GAY R LUMN HERE AT , I N ALMOST HEAR THE HEAR MORONS-WHO-LOVE-TO-TENTNALLY-IGNORE-ALL-NTEXT ASKG SO HOW E YOU GET TO LL RS GAY, AND THE BLOWHARD BLOAT OM THE FRAT PACK DON’T? WELL, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER TAKEN SEMTICS OR BEEN MA TO UNRSTAND THE BASIC UNRPNGS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, I’LL EXPLA: ALL SPEECH IS NOT EQUAL. IT HAS DIFFERENT SHAS OF MEANG PENDG ON WHO IS SAYG , WHAT NDN AND SUATN IS BEG LIVERED, WHO IS THE TEND DIENCE, AND WHETHER OR NOT HAS OBJECTIVE HUMORO MER. WHEN I’M WRG ABOUT GAY RS—AND I ALWAYS AM—I’M TALKG JOCULARLY, FACETLY, AND FARCILLY ABOUT THEM ACTUALLY BEG GAY, AS , HOMOSEXUAL: HANDSOME, WELL-SIGNED, PREDATORY, PROMISCUO, VIRILE, MCULAR, AND/OR LIKELY TO BE THE LT OBJECT OF AN MALE, MAN-LOVG TOPHILE. IN THIS AME OF REFERENCE, LLG A R “GAY” IS NOT ONLY SPECIFIC, SARSTIC, OVERTLY NONSENSIL, AND ROOTED A PARTICULAR MUNY (ME, THE GAY ONE), ’S ALSO, GENERALLY, PLIMENTARY, AND (HOPEFULLY) IL. AN OVERHYPED, UNRPERFORMG, STRAIGHT ACTOR LLG ELECTRIC RS “GAY” SOLELY AS AN SULT, YET ANOTHER PATHETIC AND DOOMED BROMANCE FLICK, DON’T MEET ANY OF THE CRERIA. (PARTICULARLY WHEN HE’S PLAYG A CHARACTER WE’RE MEANT TO LIKE. IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TOTAL A-HOLE, THE SUATN MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.)PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS, CREATG AND LIVERG SULTS FOR ELECTRIC RS, WHATEVER FORM, IS AN CREASGLY LAME AND OUTMOD PROPOSN. PRODUCTN RS LIKE THE NISSAN LEAF, CHEVY VOLT, FISKER KARMA, AND MY STALKG PARTNER THE TLA ROADSTER ARE ALREADY MOVG THE BAR OF NSUMER PERCEPTNS TOWARD THE POSIVE, PRACTIL, AND SPORTY, AND HOT AND HUNKY FUTURE VEHICL LIKE THE PORSCHE 918, AUDI E-TRON, AND JAGUAR C-X75 PROMISE TO NTUE THAT TREND. AS MY IEND JAMIE KMAN RECENTLY WROTE AS HIS (WNG) ENTRY A NEW YORK TIM BATE ON ELECTRIC VEHICL, “THE ADVANTAG [OF EVS] ARE HUGELY RELEVANT AND UNNIABLE.” HE WAS TALKG MALY ABOUT THEIR ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARED TO THE TERNALLY BTED. BUT ADD QUIET OPERATN, PROJECTED ENHANCEMENTS BATTERY RANGE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND STANT-ON POWER—ELECTRIC VEHICL LIVER ALL OF THEIR ACCELERATIVE THST THE MOMENT YOU H THE GAS—AND I’M NFINT WE’RE GOG TO BE JUMP-STARTG JOUL OF NSUMER NVERSNS THE NEXT FEW YEARS. THE GAYS ARE KNOWN AS EARLY ADOPTERS—WE PNEERED URBAN REVALIZATN, DIS, AND MANSPG, TO NAME JT A FEW MAJOR SOCIETAL NOVATNS—SO I’M GRABBG THIS ONE BACK OM MR. VGHN. I’D LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RERD: ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY. AS HOMOSEXUAL. AND THIS IS NO SULT; ’S A PK-AND-GREEN RALLYG CRY. SO WATCH THIS SPACE THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FOR MORE EXTENSIVE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE VERAGE.[HAT-TIP TO RAY WERT.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISBRETT BERK

” He then go on to qualify, pilg sult on jury: “Not homosexual gay. But my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay. At a time when numero stars, psdo-stars, and not-for-prof anizatns like the Gay Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) are attemptg—succsfully, studi show —to change kids’ behavr wh regard to g gay as a synonym for lame, ugly, moronic, or distasteful, the extraordarily tentnal e of the term this way seems not only mean-spired, douchey, and sperate, but formidably un-funny.

) Yet as the thor of a weekly gay r lumn here at, I n almost hear the hear morons-who-love-to-tentnally-ignore-all-ntext askg So how e you get to ll rs gay, and the blowhard bloat om The Frat Pack don’t? When I’m wrg about gay rs—and I always am—I’m talkg jocularly, facetly, and farcilly about them actually beg gay, as , homosexual: handsome, well-signed, predatory, promiscuo, virile, mcular, and/or likely to be the lt object of an male, man-lovg tophile. In this ame of reference, llg a r “gay” is not only specific, sarstic, overtly nonsensil, and rooted a particular muny (me, the gay one), ’s also, generally, plimentary, and (hopefully) il.

An overhyped, unrperformg, straight actor llg electric rs “gay” solely as an sult, yet another pathetic and doomed bromance flick, don’t meet any of the creria. The gays are known as early adopters—we pneered urban revalizatn, dis, and manspg, to name jt a few major societal novatns—so I’m grabbg this one back om Mr.