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<title>Slog - Comments on Finally, I Won’t Feel Discriminated Against When I Anonymously Rent a Car</title>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best</link>
<description> Because—just like when I’m checking into a one-bed hotel room with a guy—I’m always worried the online reservation form will judge my lifestyle. Instead, I&apos;d feel discriminated against driving the pink car around town, except: 1) I don’t drive. 2) Zipcar doesn’t actually have any pink cars. I called them, and the receptionist said she’d never come across any pink cars and she was sorry about that. Happy pride pander week!...</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:49:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Better to be pandered to than ignored completely.</p>]]></description>
<author>me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058598</link>
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<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by michael strangeways</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I hate Gay Pride ever since it got so commercial...what happened to the true meaning of Pridemas?</p>

<p>Everyone should just go to a bar, get wasted, blow someone in the backroom and get arrested by the vice squad because the bar owner didn't pay the cops off.</p>]]></description>
<author>michael strangeways</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058607</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058607</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:00:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by jhell</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Michael, how would that be any different from any other weekend for most of us???</p>]]></description>
<author>jhell</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058620</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058620</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:12:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by sir jorge</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>am i to assume that zip car's other cars are heterosexual? </p>]]></description>
<author>sir jorge</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058632</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058632</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:16:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by The Peanut Gallery</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@3</p>

<p>The Stoli ad has rainbows.</p>]]></description>
<author>The Peanut Gallery</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058633</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058633</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:16:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by him</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Well, on the rare occassion when I drink a Budweiser, I don't get hit on by beautiful women with huge tits in tight red swimsuits, either.</p>]]></description>
<author>him</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058641</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058641</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:21:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@6 - you're doing it wrong.</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058652</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058652</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:33:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by JC</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I love seeing the pride ads by your typical Super Bowl beers, like Bud and Coors, with their rainbow colors and wink-wink/nudge-nudge phrases. I wonder if the people in Nascar-loving parts of the country even know that they exist.</p>]]></description>
<author>JC</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058661</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058661</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:41:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by poppy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>BUT, the pink gay zipcar flyers have a code to get $75 free driving if you sign up.  That covers all the various signup costs, plus you get $25 more if a current zipcar member refers you.</p>

<p>So, what they're saying is they'll GIVE you money to zipcar if you're gay.</p>]]></description>
<author>poppy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058663</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058663</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lostboy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Zipcar <b>doesn’t actually have any pink cars</b>.</blockquote>
Looks like affirmative reporting.
<blockquote>I called them, and the receptionist said she’d never come across any pink cars and she was sorry about that.</blockquote>

<p>Is the absence of confirmation from a receptionist the only support here?&#160; That'd be a weak sourcing standard for dinner conversation, much less published reporting (however tongue-in-cheek).</p>]]></description>
<author>lostboy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058668</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058668</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:51:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Dominic Holden</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Lostboy... The receptionist at the national office said she'd never seen any pink cars listed among the stock, so I asked if there was a way to verify. She said she would contact the folks who manage the national inventory. After putting me on hold for about three minutes, she came back and said that, according to the person she spoke to, there were no pink cars listed in national records. </p>]]></description>
<author>Dominic Holden</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058676</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058676</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:00:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by kinaidos</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Quand il me prend dans ses bras, il me parle tout bas, je vois la voiture en rose.</p>]]></description>
<author>kinaidos</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058680</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058680</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:04:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Grumpy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Show your Pride® with new Gay® cars from Zipcar!! Vomit.</p>]]></description>
<author>Grumpy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058705</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058705</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:21:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lostboy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Dominic @11, thanks for the elaboration.&#160; Instead of absence of confirmation, we have confirmation of absence.</p>]]></description>
<author>lostboy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058708</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058708</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:22:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Bellevue Ave</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Please Dominic, at least you're not being insulted like every presumably straight man is when it comes to advertising. </p>

<p>So many products advertised to women feature a woman that makes "smart shopping choices" and an incompetent husband or husband who just doesnt understand anything. <br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Bellevue Ave</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058742</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058742</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Nightlifejitters</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>A recent WSJ article claimed that Zipcar users are increasinlgly being required (by local governments) to pay the same taxes as traditional rental car users.  Is that true in Seattle?  Just curious.</p>]]></description>
<author>Nightlifejitters</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058772</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058772</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:41:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Boomer in NYC</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post, Dominic.</p>]]></description>
<author>Boomer in NYC</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058775</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058775</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:44:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Cato the Younger Younger</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The more commercial gay pride week becomes the less interesting it becomes.  I remember hooking up at the parade on Broadway just 10 years ago.  Now it is clean wholesome family fun.  Fuck Pride, have an orgy instead and bring the condoms!!</p>]]></description>
<author>Cato the Younger Younger</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058778</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058778</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:46:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by w7ngman</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I feel discriminated against when I rent a car, but it's because I'm not 25 yet.</p>]]></description>
<author>w7ngman</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058779</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058779</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:47:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Until they bring out plug-in hybrids, they can't really be gay ...</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058886</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1058886</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:42:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by inkweary</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>How many Gay people have pink cars, or even really want one? Stereotyping Gays in advertising does not make me want their support.</p>]]></description>
<author>inkweary</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1059073</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/some_of_their_best#c1059073</guid>
<category>Homo</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:14:24 -0800</pubDate>
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