![]() (The full list, for those keeping notes, ran: Mini One, Vauxhall Tigra, VW Beetle, Ford Ka and Mini Cooper. I refer you to an exhaustive 2011 study by the learned statisticians at ‘women’s car insurance specialist Diamond’, who found that the MX-5 isn’t even among the top FIVE cars favoured by follicular improvement operatives. Maybe it’s because MX-5s are ACTUALLY driven by hairdressers? Again, not so. Lack of roof ≠ hairdresser’s car, at least not in and of itself. The Porsche 918 and Veyron SS are both convertibles, but not regularly referred to as hairdressers’ cars. Is it because the MX-5 is a convertible? This cannot be enough. So what’s this whole MX-5-is-a-hairdresser’s-car slur, if directed at someone who isn’t in fact a hairdresser, actually about? Let’s deconstruct this lazy stereotype, kids. I mean, of course I’ve dabbled in the world of coiffure – who hasn’t? And if some unforeseen set of circumstances required me to perform an emergency hair-ectomy – a lethal, occupation-targeting virus, maybe – I won’t lie, I’d give it my best shot. Firstly, because I am not, by profession, a hairdresser. If you drive an MX-5, you may have suffered the same slight. Some colleagues – including that notorious oik Chris Harris – have criticised the MX-5 for being, and I quote, a ‘hairdresser’s car’.
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