I feel like this joke would be a lot funnier without any of the bumper stickers, just playing on the Subaru meme. Or maybe just a single pride flag.
As it is, each bumper sticker seems like an additional layer of desperation from the artist to make sure you get their joke. Which isn’t particularly clever or funny to begin with tbh…
Oh look another account a few hours old spamming a bunch of comics, usually with controversial inaccuracies or divisiveness.
There’s been a huge influx of these accounts lately. Add this one to the pile.
Some stickers are partially obscuring the rear view while driving. Not totally safe.
OK but if were being real, no one can afford a Subaru anymore
I love/hate Subaru
They’ve never had a good diesel engine. The one they did have would split crankshafts IIRC.
Their petrol engines are pretty boring unless turbocharged… And in Europe they don’t do a lot of turbos outside of the WRX and STI models
Oh and CVT longevity kinda sucks too
But on the other hand, the AWD is excellent, Outback as a taller but not too tall wagon was very comfy (now it’s a crossover sadly), especially in the slightly tallet USDM version. Etc.
My ex got our Outback and I replaced it with the cheapest available A6 Allroad. Much better vehicle in all but reliability though in its defense it has twice the kilometers and is 6 years older (2007 vs 2013). Better driving dynamics, fuel economy, comfort, and ride height can be low or high. Also has a traditional autobox.
I hated my A6 Allroad, despite its great 230hp diesel engine. My Subaru Levorg while smaller is better in everything except for raw power and fuel economy.
And on the snow it’s in another league completely.
Tbf the 230hp diesel isn’t great. If I hadn’t bought this thing for under 2000 EUR in a pinch, I would’ve preferred the 239 hp (176 kW) version. Better fuel economy, more torque, little bit more reliable chain tensioner. Or quite honestly, I would’ve preferred BMW or MB’s inline 6 diesel engines.
But mine’s still going strong at 400k km, original chains AFAIK. Transmission stopped working altogether 2 weeks ago. Opened it up and saw a 2007 date on the filter. NEVER changed before, fluid was probably original too. Changed the mechatronic seals (14€), transmission fluid and filter (~180€) and it behaves like new. I was very sure I’d have to rebuild the transmission. I’ve done about 20k km on it myself so far.
My only gripes: Would prefer the newer engine variant from the facelift; Would prefer a manual transmission.
As for snow - I don’t know, I haven’t been able to get it stuck. We’ve got a whole bunch of snow here in Estonia this winter, but the plows are working fine and the ability to raise it has been nice. I have exceptionally good studded winter tires fitted too.
I’ve also had a 4matic car which performed pretty decently in snow, but not as good as Quattro. But then I’ve done mild off roading in snow with FWD cars too lol, key is great winter tires, skill and (this is important) patience.
If I could have a Levorg with the turbo engine AND a manual transmission, I’d prefer it over the Audi any day of the week, fuel economy be damned. Unfortunately I don’t see any turbo models on sale here and apparently they were never made with manual transmission :(
I guess for anyone buying the car new, the CVT likely wouldn’t be an issue. I just don’t have faith in them lasting long term. And I like to buy my cars used and depreciated.
230hp diesel isn’t great. If I hadn’t bought this thing for under 2000 EUR in a pinch, I would’ve preferred the 239 hp
I don’t exactly remember which one it was, the restyling of the “round front” one. Had an A6 quattro sedan from the same model, pre-restyling too, same car really. It was many years ago. The tiptronic gearbox sucked, it was awfully slow even when changing gears manually. I remember spending about 1k€ to replace a headlight, then at around 250k km the gearbox started acting up, lots of stupid costs I luckily didn’t have to pay for personally. Now I don’t use the car as much, actually I barely use it at all, so the bad fuel economy of the Subaru doesn’t matter much to me.
On the snow I didn’t like the Audi, I’ve never skimped on tires and I used to be a 4x4 offroader myself, so honestly I don’t know how to justify it sucking so bad.
As for the Levorg yeah, I don’t think they sold a manual turbo in Europe, the best you can get is my same 1.6L turbo 170hp with CVT. CVT really sucks the power out of this engine, the feeling is not very sporty, but some things don’t matter as much to me as when I was younger. For everything else the car is perfect, and the CVT does have its perks. Fuel economy is REALLY bad, like normally I can get 10km/l, but there are times where I drive a bit less carefully and then I get 8km/l.
If you had the facelift with the LED DRLs, that would’ve been the superior 239 hp one and if you had a pre-facelift 3.0 tdi, that would’ve been either 230 or 224 (ish) hp.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Tiptronic either, but I do like its longevity and relative simplicity if I need to rebuild it. In a BMW it would be possible to flash it for higher line pressure and faster shifts, but unfortunately not the case for Audi.
For my next car I’m looking to ideally get something with an 8HP or 9G-Tronic box. Aisin 8 speed as a backup option. Haven’t actually driven either of those 8-speeds somehow, but I had a W205 C-class with 9G for over 2 years and it was sublime. Kicking down even 4 gears at once was quick as hell and outside of sport+ you couldn’t ever feel any of the shifts, even though they were always quick
You need a specific car brand now out of all things?
People and their status symbols, huh…
So it’s kinda an interesting story. We’re a historically outdoorsy group. Subaru has long specialized in rugged vehicles that work in adverse conditions like dirt roads. In the 90s the company wanted to boost revenue by doing targeted ads so they did some research on who was buying their cars, and they found three standout groups (I only vaguely recall the first two): campers, medical workers, and lesbians. They were more than happy to openly advertise to the first two, your car will work off road when you go camping, and when you need to get to the hospital in a disaster your car will get you there type stuff. But they also put not so subtle nods to lesbians in their advertisements (stuff like a XENALVR license plate), making them one of the very first mainstream companies to adverse directly to the queer community. This led to some brand loyalty for a time and a stereotype of outdoorsy lesbians all have Subarus. It’s definitely fallen off over the years as a stereotype though
Well at least we know this wasn’t made by a lesbian since Scissoring isn’t real uuuugh
Hey, it’s a common first form of tribidation before you realize it’s inconvenient and awkward as all hell. But also it’s definitely more commonly joked about than done
Thank you.
pride.com says it’s real
Scissoring is specifically genital on genital tribbing. Some people find varying degrees of success with scissoring vs. other forms of tribbing, but it’s definitely a thing (despite what many have come to think).
No, it’s not going to look like when you made your Barbies scissor (and we know you did) because humans have joints, and fat, and can get tired in strenuous positions. But with enough practice, communication, and trouble shooting, YES it is attainable for you to scissor if you really really want to.
The podcast they link to corroborates
“People are also spreading rumors that lesbians don’t scissor, which I don’t understand,” McCafferty said. “I’m like, that’s not true.”
“It’s literally all I do,” Myrick deadpanned.
The two commiserated over apparent frustrations that even lesbians are saying scissoring isn’t a thing.
“I’m like, ‘Then what are you doing?’” Myrick fired back, before turning the blame onto the wider availability of strap-ons in the midwest.
Wikipedia mentions the debate
Some lesbian and bisexual women do not engage in the scissoring position because they find or think it would be physically uncomfortable. They may also think it is a misconception that lesbians engage in the act and is therefore not representative of lesbian sexual practices, attributing it more so to the male fantasies of the heterosexual porn industry. By contrast, some sources, including Shere Hite’s 1976 and 1981 research, indicate that women may enjoy performing the scissoring position with other women because it is a variation of vulva-to-vulva contact or can allow for maximum such contact and therefore an elevated level of intimacy.
and that scissoring is a common umbrella term, which matches my recollection
Scissoring is commonly used as an umbrella term for all forms of tribadism, and many lesbian and bisexual women are unaware that some of the sexual acts they include in their lovemaking are aspects of and are formally labeled tribadism, as tribadism is commonly omitted from mainstream sex research.
It also mentions that tribade and related words had become archaic by the 20th century. ngrams confirms tribbing was obscure until it only recently took off in the last decade: I think pretty much everyone called it scissoring or rubbing before.
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No, it’s not going to look like when you made your Barbies scissor (and we know you did) because humans have joints, and fat, and can get tired in strenuous positions.
I don’t know what pride.com is, nor have I heard of the podcast they’re linking to, however! nothing you’re saying here actually disagrees with what I’ve said elsewhere in this thread. Yes, tribbing is a thing. No, the common depiction of “scissoring” is not representative of tribbing on the whole. Wikipedia even makes the argument that the use of the term “scissoring” is because the term “tribadism” (tribbing) is no longer used and use the term “scissoring” to describe the same sex acts (something I very much disagree with, and isn’t exactly supported by how the term is used extensively in the remainder of that section)
tribadism is commonly omitted from mainstream sex research. Scholar Judith Halberstam stated, “If we trace the use of the term forward into present, we find that tribadism is one of those rarely discussed but often practiced sexual activities, and the silence that surrounds it now is as puzzling as the discourse it produced in earlier centuries.” Halberstam added that Sigmund Freud “had nothing to say” with regard to the topic, “and few contemporary lesbian sex books even discuss it”.
Google Ngram Viewer isn’t a good source, btw. It’s neat, but it’s bad quality data that doesn’t control for biases and it really shouldn’t be used to indicate social trends.
The data sets of the Ngram Viewer have been criticized for their reliance upon inaccurate optical character recognition (OCR) and for including large numbers of incorrectly dated and categorized texts. Because of these errors, and because they are uncontrolled for bias (such as the increasing amount of scientific literature, which causes other terms to appear to decline in popularity), care must be taken in using the corpora to study language or test theories. Furthermore, the data sets may not reflect general linguistic or cultural change and can only hint at such an effect because they do not involve any metadata like date published, author, length, or genre, to avoid any potential copyright infringements.
As an example, a random alternative explanation for the trend seen (assuming the data is accurate which we cannot do with ngram viewer) that I’ve just made up is that papers about the details of lesbian sex were unpopular, and the body of scientific and recreational literature is catching up with the terminology used in their subject matter as the topic becomes less anathema in grant applications. This would very much line up with the dates, and explain the growing usage of the more technical terms as the broadly accepted terminology catches up with the usage of the terms in literature.
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The podcast, at least in pride’s reporting, doesn’t seem to corroborate that it’s a real thing? Or at least it doesn’t concretely do so, as they explain the podcast’s interaction as:
The back-and-forth left viewers amused as they desperately tried to parse out whether the conversation was for real or just messing around, which actually proves quite thoroughly how confused society as a whole remains about the mythology of scissoring.
Which really doesn’t seem like they’re making the definite claim that it’s real, and I’m not sure why it’s being used as a source here in light of that ambiguity?
Seriously, what is pride.com? I’ve never heard of them before, are they a known entity?
You say that the common depictions of scissoring is not representative of tribbing as a whole. Which I completely agree with. Because tribbing is a word for “rubbing the vulva against something for stimulation”.
But that doesn’t mean that scissoring isn’t real. It’s a specific form of tribbing. And there obviously are people who have done and enjoyed that, and are now confused why people tell everyone that it isn’t real.
Sure, it may not look like the common porn depiction. But it may surprise you that the porn industry isn’t really good at representing actual sex in general. And just because you yourself don’t enjoy this position doesn’t mean others no not as well.Sure, it may not look like the common porn depiction.
I thought the argument was the opposite, that it exists only in porn
I’m not 100% sure what the argument has become. Their source even lists the reason “scissoring” as it’s commonly shown in porn (the barbie thing) isn’t the real act. I think the issue is that I am using the term “scissoring” to refer to the barbie thing, as that is how the term is used among every lesbian I have interacted with as well as in all the writing about this topic from lesbians that I have engaged with, and their source is using the term “scissoring” as an umbrella term for “tribbing” (which they have clarified they’re doing).
I don’t think that we disagree on concept, just that they are arguing from a position of slight semantic difference. “Scissoring” the position seen in porn isn’t “real” tribbing. It’s a bit like the sex tips in cosmo - are there men that might enjoy having a doughnut eaten off their shaft, or who enjoy being jabbed in the balls with a fork while getting head? Yeah, probably, but I’m pretty sure we can agree that those specific examples shouldn’t be used as the common representation of what a “blowjob” consists of. Nor do I suspect anyone is going to argue that the insane and grotesque sex acts on urban dictionary are “real”, even if someone might have tried one of them once.
Anyone can do anything, and people are weird about sex - but as they’re intimated, the common depiction of the sex act in porn is a bad representation, and that is all I have been saying. If the argument truly is just that they think scissoring refers to all tribbing, their own sources show that’s a contested claim.
Yeah I think you’ve got it right that it largely has taken to mean in the community the most physically uncomfortable looking version of vulva-vulva tribbing, risk of kicking each other in the face and all. But that some people may be using it to refer to any vulva-vulva tribbing, possibly even mutual thigh tribbing, which can be comfortable, extremely erotic, and is very common. Or as you say, all tribbing. I’ve never thought of it as including such acts, but I see it for some of it. All it can take for a local community to start referring to it that way would be one slutty woman who calls it that and is really into it, then within a few years it’s all scissoring in Milwaukee
I hereby grant you the title of “Gaytekeeper”
Weird to “um acktually” gay sex.
… So, are you queer? Because in my experience bad representations of queer sex/relationships are a huge portion of the experience.
I am actually. I’m pan married to a trans person. Also Poly. I’m all over the queer spectrum lol.
I dont know what all this means
What is a queer spectrum?
What is “pan married”? As opposed to normal marriage?
What is a queer spectrum?
Just a term I’ve heard for different flavours of queer. Bi, Pan, Gay, Lesbian, Ace/Aro, etc.
What is “pan married”? As opposed to normal marriage?
So I am married to my partner. Before I met them (They’re trans/enby) they had a girlfriend for I think about 7 years? I married my partner. Since then I have two girlfriends myself and they’ve found a boyfriend on top of their girlfriend. So we both have two individual relationships outside of our marriage. And they’re full on mono-like relationships. I love my girlfriends; emotionally, romantically, and sexually. We have sex outside of my marriage and everything is all on the up-and-up with my married partner. My partner is less sexually charged as I am.
So basically, I am married and have two other full relationships and my partner has two other full relationships that aren’t me. And those relationships carry the same pros and cons as any relationship. I could be up late on the phone because something happened. One of my gf’s dad got diagnosed with cancer so I’ve done my best to be emotionally available for her when she needs it.
Pan isn’t just “Look at us and all the sex we have”. If you think one relationship is a lot of work, we both have three lol.
IDK what genitals you have so you may not be able to relate to the sexual aspect specifically as shown here, but do you never get tired of seeing the wild misrepresentation of what poly relationships are like in media?
Speaking just personally, I don’t really care myself how Poly is represented. My polyqueue is a happy little dynamic and that’s what matters. If media wants to say “haha look at us, we’re poly” and it’s just a bunch of group sex without the actual realization they are all individual relationships the same as mono ones, so be it.
Then again, poly in media is pretty under-represented. Lesbians in media are almost over-represented because of the ease of over sexualization of it. So I can totally understand your annoyance in the manufactured representation.
I suppose I came off a bit much in my first comment. I just know a couple lesbian friends who trib and they enjoy it.
It’s a square/rectangle thing, really. Tribbing is absolutely a thing, scissoring as a specific type of tribbing (as it is represented in porn) really isn’t.
I suppose I came off a bit much in my first comment.
I’ll be real, it’s pretty disheartening to get from a queer person the same kind of casual dismissal I get from (ex) my conservative-leaning relatives when correcting exhaustively common stereotypes about queer women. I’m sincerely glad you’re okay with the common stereotypes of you though.
(also totally unrelated, but it’s usually spelled polycule)
(also totally unrelated, but it’s usually spelled polycule)
Holy crap I didn’t realize how badly I butchered that. I forgot the L for god’s sake. How on Earth did I manage that?
Also, my apologies if I came off as attempting to dismiss your feelings about the topic. That wasn’t my intention.
Uh, what? It’s just a specific form of tribbing, is it not?
It’s “real” in that yes you can just rub your junk on stuff, including someone else’s junk - it’s not real in that it’s not, like, something people actually do, or that feels particularly stimulating for both partners just because of the geometry (it’s borderline impossible to get your bits to mutually line up). Basically as it’s commonly depicted, it’s not real. There’s stuff you can do with mutual thighs that can be quite nice if it works anatomically for you and your partner, but I’ve never seen that done in porn (and believe me I’ve looked)
Not sure about this, seems like something a subset of people arbitrarily agreed applies to everyone. But I don’t have a vulva, so I can’t “for science” it.
There are financing options available…
The last thing I need are more holes, I can hardly take care of the ones I got.
You have not looked very hard.
No I… actually have, the lack of representation for sapphic-oriented pornography is sorta a passion subject with me.
I don’t get the “horse denier” sticker. Otherwise yeah.
Also scissoring is more about mutual fun, not like actually cumming imo…
I caved and looked it up. Apparently some Swedish people in 2012/2013 started a FB group denying the existence of horses and saying they were a non-existent fruit. There was at one point a store selling Horses Don’t Exist merch as well.
https://www.horsenation.com/2013/02/01/235000-swedes-cant-be-wrong-horses-do-not-exist/
I’m also pretty sure it’s this sticker https://www.frogmustardstickers.com/products/horse-denier-sticker
It’s probably a reference to this surreal meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2904243-awesome-lesbian-couple-evil-and-intimidating-horse
No idea what the artists actual inspiration is so that is equally possible.
Related video about Subaru stereotypes and funny enough, the lesbian part of the stereotypes wasn’t really mentioned.
Scissor me timbers!
Business idea: Scissorerscossorlift. It’s a regular scissor lift, but marketed towards lesbians. Maybe it comes with a bundled CD of Scissor Sisters, just for that extra pandering to a market I know nothing about.
Lol I wonder why it’s always an outback? Like I’ve heard the jokes, but where’d that come from?
Marketing campaign in the 90s. The marketing campaign was launched because market research discovered that there was already a sizable customer base of lesbians though.
Subarus are a very practical vehicle for people who like city living but also go out to festivals or go on hiking trips, they’re pretty reliable, they’re fairly popular on the pretty gay west coast so they can be found used pretty commonly and they’re one of the few common vehicles in the US that are comfortably sized for women to drive (Volvo is also popular for similar reasons, and it has a silly name)
Is supposed to be the Forester.
