(about to have a run-in with 2 people who hate scooters)
Being a scooter owner, you tend to find 2 schools of thought when it comes to scooters. They are either Cool & Fun little transports, or they’re gay. It really depends on who you ask.
Take Blueyedcelt61@aol.com for instance. Apparently, he’s a Caucasian male of about 44 years of age who uses AOL as his ISP. He’s the perfect example with his AOL comment in response to the AOL News article “Motor Scooters Gaining Popularity in U.S. As gasoline prices soar, the popularity of peppy, fuel-sipping motor scooters is soaring. Would you drive one?”, he says:
“SCOOTERS ARE GAY I WONT RIDE ONE !!!!…
IM A TRUCK MAN , YOU WONT SEE ME ON A GAY SCOOTER.
REAL MEN DRIVE TRUCKS. DEMOCRAPS DRIVE SISSY SCOOTERS , AND SISSY CARS LIKE MINI COOPERS, AND V.W. BUGS.”
I’ve tried to find the root to some peoples perception that scooters prefer the same sex, and it does appear to be intelligence related… at least judging by another of his comments to “Deadly Blaze in Paris A fire rips through an apartment building housing African immigrants, killing at least 17 people, most of them children. Discuss the tragedy.” He responds with:
“DONT RENT TO HEAD HUNTERS
THEY WERE SHRINKING HEADS IN A POT OF BOILING WATER AND THE FIRE GOT OUT OF CONTROL”
So how do I feel about these people? The one’s who think scooters are of an alternate sexual nature? Well, it kinda works out really. These are people I’d rather not have to endure anyway. Shout your rant and go on your way please before you start sapping IQ points from me. Luckily people with these sorts of attitudes are a slooooowly vanishing species. It’s just a matter of time before they are all gone.
Keep on scootin’ till then!
12. September 2005 at 11:46 pm
That guy sounds like a professional troll. He likes stirring things up to piss people off. And anybody who won’t drive a car or a scooter because they think it’s gay is a serious closet case.
13. September 2005 at 2:13 am
Yeah, don’t feed the trolls. It only encourages them.
13. September 2005 at 3:44 am
I know, I know… Bad blogger! I don’t normally give trolls the time of day. But I had to find someone to represent that mentality because I’ve heard similar remarks from a half-cracked pickup truck window. The loud,half-intelligible “GAY!” took me a while to figure out what they were saying. I never knew anyone could have such strong feelings against a vehicle that they would resort to calling them names or questioning the scooter’s sexual preference. I mean, YEAH! SURE! My scooter dresses nice and is kinda fit for a guy-scooter. And maybe it’s tires are well manicured. But, who is THIS guy to make such accusations!? It could just be a metrosexual scooter! I don’t know!?
I mean…It was kinda giving eyes to that Lambretta a few weeks ago. Could have just been admiration… but who cares, eh? I like my scooter just the way he is.
4. March 2008 at 1:38 pm
This is the Main Problem with Scooters in America. The “Gay” image.
Who knows how these things get started but the Scooter is linked to Gay culture in a fairly big way.
It’s also fair to say that Motorcycle culture including Harly Davidson is liked to Gay Culture.
Some scooters are WAY more gay than others. For example a Vespa Et4/Et2 looks way to “princess” for a straight man to ever ride. Vespa’s are very Girly. In fact, MOST scooters have a Girly look to them in my openion.
If your a straight guy and you want a scooter, you need to get something that LOOKS like a man’s scooter.
Get a GREY or Silver Color. Dont get Bright Blue, Red, etc. If you need to, Spraypait it to make it look roughed up.
DONT put a Windshield on a scooter. This makes it look VERY GAY.
Yamaha makes a lot of COOL scooters for men.
The best “Straight” scooter is a Yamaha Zuma. The Zuma is a very masculine scooter, especially if you trick it out with race pipes and mods, etc. It already looks Cool/Ugly and not the least big Girly.
The ultimate test is to show it to a girl and if she says it’s “CUTE” then it’s a GAY scooter.
Or, just dont care what people think.
17. October 2008 at 12:38 am
Whatever your opinion is, if your thinking about getting one make sure you know how to ride one. I work at a Yamaha/Suzuki dealer and most of the scooters we sell don’t even make it back for their first oil change before their wrecked. Deathtraps: all of them. Although, I guess it does make it kind of manly to take your life in your hands every time you hit the road.