It’s based on my experience and prejudice from there. I’d say even more specifically that convertibles would be for either older gay men or status conscious gay men. Here’s even a thread from long ago on SDMB about it too.
Hey, that liftgate and the wayback were absolutely the perfect height for stowing a big bag of groceries or two and zipping them right home. . .
I’m not really helping my own argument here, am I? :o
She looks like 7 of 9, a little bit.
The lighting on the car body makes it look like it’s dented.
The Pacer was also a hatchback, and these pics show you can take a date out in one. The ads I remember also referenced the penis: “How can a small car be that wide?” Available as a woody wagon, too.
My '80 Mustang was a hatchback. They often referred to it as a 3 door.
Heh, heh, I said “woody.”
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If you’re worried about parking, why not get a car with a backup camera? I recently got a Subaru that has one, and it has revolutionized parking for me. I guess you couldn’t get a Subaru Outback like me, because that would somehow make you into a lesbian (I haven’t noticed any change yet, but I’m pregnant and have a toddler, and I haven’t had the car for very long), but my in-laws recently got a Honda Accord hybrid with a back-up cam.
Didn’t you read pulykamell’s link - an Accord is a chick car that a man should never drive.
I think we’re getting away from the OP.
Manly men who are not gay don’t drive cars with back-up cameras. They certainly wouldn’t be caught dead being blown by another man in a hatch-back with a backup camera.
I’m sure there are gay jokes that could be made about backup cameras. I’m too tired to come up with any right now, so someone else will have to do that.
What are they going to do in the US after 2018, when all new cars will be required to have back-up cameras?
Ride motorcycles.
In chaps!
Because he wants something hot and throbbing between his legs.
I really want this car. The pink hood is to die for.:o
God help me. We are a minivan/Subaru hatchback family.
You must be the whole cast of Queer Eye!
And then the OP can reassert his masculinity and straightness by constantly reminding his friends and associates how much he loves riding a big hog.
(Am I the only one having flashbacks to the episode of Frasier where Niles rented the car he thought was called a “hunchback?” 
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Way back, knew a guy who experimented with a hatchback in his college days. But he ended up buying a regular 4-door and sold it to a classmate. Now THAT GUY is as different story, he travels everywhere by rainbow these days. One of those faith and begorra leprechauns.
Hatchbacks aren’t “gay” but they are girly. Better than 70% of hatchback drivers (including me) I’ve meet around here are women, and most Jeep Wrangler drivers are too. Here they’re both the vehicles of choice for women who need to haul stuff, while pickup trucks seem to attract similar-minded men instead. Perhaps things are different outside the northeast, though.
And they get less MPG than you’d imagine: my Nissan Versa gets less than 25mpg and I’ve read lots of other people say that they do too, which makes Nissan’s much higher claims a total lie.
Truth. Some people think you’re a traitor for buying an import; others wonder when American companies will figure out how to build a decent car. There is no universal consensus.
But there surely is no strong association against hatchbacks in the U.S. They’re a very nice scaled-down alternative to station wagons.
I’m goofy comic relief! Let’s team up and hit the road! Who says Vaudeville is dead?
MX5s - Miatas, if you will - are fucking awesome cars.