I was just about to say this, like holy shit does she think fat people just get carried everywhere by someone?
I have a mental image of Stav lying around naked on an aircraft carrier now.
real talk all my disability peeps want walkable cities cause rn all the sidewalks are smashed up and built in the 60s which means they cant use wheelchairs for even short trips
It's like they built mobility aids around regular, well-maintained sidewalks that should be there under a functioning state.
This is why so many people have to use their wheelchair in the actual road
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It's not even worth thinking about this. This person does not believe this. This is not real. They just said this to piss people off.
They said it as a joke. And at the risk of doing the "but the fact I fell for it says a lot about society" thing, I've seen essentially this same take posted unironically in the past few weeks.
months ago i saw some very angry car-brained disability activist complaining about a space that penn &teller could've wheeled an iron lung through like an episode of bullshit somehow not being wheelchair accessible and i was just :jesse-wtf:
they had like, half a point, that "walkable" won't always mean "accessible" and we do still need to do our urbanism in a way that accommodates people with mobility issues and that won't be automatic under liberalism where restaurants will want to block the entire sidewalk with seating.
For sure, Tokyo and Hong Kong are incredibly walkable cities but not at all accessible. Though maybe it's gotten a bit better in the last decade or so.
A disability activist in Tokyo used to document how it was nearly impossible to use basic public transportation in a wheelchair: no ramps onto buses or subways, no elevators, scary big gaps between the platform and subway car that his wheel could get stuck or fall in, et cetera.
That half a point is that it's about equivalent experience, not merely being
accessiblepossible. If it takes you five minutes to board a bus while an able bodied person gets on in 5 seconds, it's not really accessible.Another thing to woke chase over tho. What no materialism does to a mfer and all that
yeah i see some of the concrete ramps around here and wonder about how steep those are allowed to be.
idk about 5 minutes vs 5 seconds but the kneeling busses i've been around seem quick enough, I'm not sure how much faster you can get those going or what the "not working very well" failure mode is. Opening a door is always going to be slower than opening a door and deploying a ramp.
sarcastic humor is dead and does not exist in our current year because there are people who unironically believe this it has been discussed in depth for over a decade now
Yeah, I bet people struggling with their weight would just hate to be guaranteed reasonable outdoor walking routes. Where's the fun if you don't wind up covered in ticks from the weeds you had to jump into in order not to be run over by an SUV?
I'm currently shopping roommates in a better city because of this exactly. This fucking place I'm at has been horrendous for my health.
Can't fucking walk anywhere and I get bored as hell just swinging a kettlebell around everyday
Studies suggest being fat and walking is maybe healthier than not being fat and not walking.
I'm a fat piece of shit, you think I fucking like it? Want to have "solidarity" with me? Build more fucking walking/biking infrastructure to help me out of this mess!
I've seen a few lolbertarians do this. (Don't tell the lolberts where the term privatization originates from).
I guess I don't like people gaining weight because they have to spend 2hours driving to work, 8 hours hunched over a desk, and 2 hours driving home, leaving no time to exercise.
Its a dog whistle because who would be walking in a walkable city? Dogs
Yeah I'm FATPHOBIC (Fully Automated Trams, Public Hikes, Or BICycles)
Hi Fully Automated Trams, Public Hikes, Or BICycles, I'm corgiwithalaptop!
I literally got fat during the pandemic because my stupid fucking city is completely unwalkable lol. Just trapped in the shitty apartment and too many cars going 80 mph while texting to ride my bike
This shit pissed me off when I saw it earlier.
how tf do people think like this :brainworms:? most countries outside North America aren't built with Parking lots double the size of the building and 100feet roads.
Oh no she's Briish.
She's being sarcastic? Too many layers, hard to tell lol.
