So, I'm reading a crime novel, set in the US in 2021. Two detectives are interviewing a wealthy, middle-aged widow about a suspicious car.
Witness: "I don't know the kind, but I think it was one of those lesbian cars."
Detective 1: "Lesbian cars?"
Witness: "You know . . . lesbian cars."
While detective 1 was thinking, detective 2 asks "You mean... a Subaru?"
Witness: "Yes, that's it, one of those."
Okay, so how does the witness equate Subaru with lesbians? And how did detective 2 know what she meant?
"Subaru" is Japanese for the star formation the Pleiades, which is also know as the Seven Sisters, but it seems quite a reach to get to lesbian.
Or am I missing something here?
Pedants' corner
Umm... "Subaru" = "lesbian car"??? What???
CanadianJohn · 01/02/2023 04:52
Asthebellcurves · 01/02/2023 04:56
I lived in the US for a long time. It’s not a play on words, it’s simply a stereotype that exists - lesbians drive Subarus. Very common trope there, consider it like ‘hairdresser car’ in the UK.
pigsDOfly · 02/02/2023 17:00
What on earth is a 'hairdresser car' in the UK?
I was born in the UK, lived here all my life and have never heard that expression.
Although, thinking about it, that could be because I'm old and the expression has passed me by.
Asthebellcurves · 01/02/2023 04:56
I lived in the US for a long time. It’s not a play on words, it’s simply a stereotype that exists - lesbians drive Subarus. Very common trope there, consider it like ‘hairdresser car’ in the UK.
pigsDOfly · 02/02/2023 17:00
What on earth is a 'hairdresser car' in the UK?
I was born in the UK, lived here all my life and have never heard that expression.
Although, thinking about it, that could be because I'm old and the expression has passed me by.
Asthebellcurves · 01/02/2023 04:56
I lived in the US for a long time. It’s not a play on words, it’s simply a stereotype that exists - lesbians drive Subarus. Very common trope there, consider it like ‘hairdresser car’ in the UK.
Cupcakequeen75 · 02/02/2023 17:15
Definitely a thing but perhaps not so recently.
XR3i Cabriolet, Golf Cabriolet (both in white of course), MGF.
Anything along those lines. 😁
pigsDOfly · 02/02/2023 17:00
What on earth is a 'hairdresser car' in the UK?
I was born in the UK, lived here all my life and have never heard that expression.
Although, thinking about it, that could be because I'm old and the expression has passed me by.
Asthebellcurves · 01/02/2023 04:56
I lived in the US for a long time. It’s not a play on words, it’s simply a stereotype that exists - lesbians drive Subarus. Very common trope there, consider it like ‘hairdresser car’ in the UK.
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