Electric Gay Cars

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Oct. 10, 2010
Are electric cars 'gay,' as Vince Vaughn says in film?

06:16 AM


"Electric cars are gay?" Who knew?

Universal pulled a movie trailer Friday in which a character played by actor Vince Vaughn says to a group in corporate board room: "Electric cars are gay. Not homosexual gay, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay."

The studio's move Friday came after CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper told Ellen DeGeneres on her TV talk show that he is shocked by the use of the phrase "that's so gay" in the film trailer. The trailer promotes the new Ron Howard film The Dilemma, in which Vaughn plays a man who learns that his best friend's wife is having an affair.

But no one is talking about the reference to electric cars as "so gay." In viewing the trailer -- it appears in the opening seconds that you can see above -- it appears that the line was inserted mostly to promote Dodge's muscle cars, a notion reinforced by seeing the Vaughn character driving a vintage purple Dodge Challenger in the trailer.

What's "so gay" about electric cars? If the crass line is meant to imply the cars are lame, ask any Tesla roadster owner about how fast they are off the line. (Answer: zero to 60 miles per hour in less than 4 seconds.) An electric Hummer recently participated in an electric-car caravan in Southern California. And why call a car "so gay" when it is obviously so smart, as most people would think about cars that can save hundreds of gallons of gas?

Easy to see why Cooper was incensed by the line in the movie. It's also [easy to] see why electric-car owners and fans will be equally incensed. Should they be?

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NOOOoooo!!!

Don't put more logs into the fire!! If an electric car owner gets incensed because somebody calls his electric car "gay," then the car owner is offending the gay community because he (the owner) doesn't like the word "gay," and that's a no - no in politically correct gay language.