It's not, I think, so much that the idea/aesthetics of a pickup truck is offensive to people. There are obviously many cases where a truck of some kind is exac

It's not, I think, so much that the idea/aesthetics of a pickup truck is offensive to people. There are obviously many cases where a truck of some kind is exactly what you need to do some task or other. I think it's more like there are a bunch of people who have never owned a pickup truck, and have rented trucks when they needed to "move stuff", and are suspicious of the explanation given by others about why they bought them because those explanations don't match their own life experience. If the answer to "why did you buy a pickup truck?" was "I like to see past the other traffic, I'm worried about the safety implications of a smaller vehicle when there are so many pickup trucks on the road where I live, the infrastructure here is set up for them with wide roads and ample parking so it's not really a thing, plus I very occasionally avoid needing to rent a truck when moving lumber" then things would be less contentious. Of course, one can then proceed to the question of if there's a double-standard on why the question doesn't get asked to owners of sports cars with speed and handling limits that are of no relevance to public roads.