If you're in an environment where energy drinks are strewn all around, it gives the place a certain atmosphere that's off-putting to certain people — and not just to women. I can't stand the stuff myself.
This isn't necessarily because they hate energy drinks, it's that those in combination with the other things paints a certain stereotype that people find off-putting upon first glance.
Kind of. More even that the idea of drinking huge cans of caffeine is sort of a dirty idea in and of itself. We've got certain images in our heads about chain smokers and alcoholics, who overindulge themselves in a public fashion; energy drinks have a similar image going for them. The demographic of energy drinkers tends to skew young and heavily male, because the sorts of people who drink it are the sorts who are fine with momentary jolts of energy followed by huge crashes, and who actively desire that as a mood change versus other intoxicants.
This isn't necessarily because they hate energy drinks, it's that those in combination with the other things paints a certain stereotype that people find off-putting upon first glance.