[PedroCandeias]

I understand you're saying that Mercedes are bought to signal status, but this post portrays women in a passive, dependent, role which is unfortunate and harmful to the diversity of a community which is already mostly men.

It would be fine to just say "Mercedes is the car you buy to signal you're a person of means".

[ergonaught]

If you’re going to police the implications of “wife”, you may as well police your own gendering of the word. You’re the one who brought “women” into it, yeah?

Heh.