Mommies everywhere who hate mini-vans are offended. (But I know you were just quoting the article.)
When the Subaru Forester was said to be a gay car, a few years ago, I started looking at who drove them locally. The first I saw was a geezer guy with two American flags flying, the second was a woman with a baby in the back seat, the third another geezer guy...
We get a fair amount of snow and Subarus are good in the snow.