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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 year ago

What? Are you suggesting I drive a smaller truck just to help other people? Are you saying I crash into people? I need that giant truck! Do you know how much I haul and tow every day?! I mean, I don't, I commute back and forth to work every day in it, but I need to do that. My coworkers see that truck next to their cars and think "Damn, that guy drives a Truck". Maybe if they see how big of a truck I drive it'll make up for the crippling social anxiety I have that I just keep pushing further and further down, maybe it'll make up for not getting that promotion I worked for. Now they'll have to notice me. So no, you aren't taking away my F350 Mega Macho Man-Manliness Super Truck. How else will people know I'm a man?

Which is why we call them ESTs. Emotional Support Trucks.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oversized and/or overpriced cars owned by men are also often referred to as "compensators."

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