I think it is more of presenting a choice.
Do you want to be fit and slim? Take the stairs.
Do you want to be fat? Take the escalator.
Anyone know what the speech bubble says?
it's not any less problematic if that's the case because it still assumes people taking the escalator do it because they want to, rather than having like a limp or something. that sort of normalized stigma isn't good.
Obviously I'm obese because I decided to be born with a spinal defect. I should make better choices.
That's the worst excuse for being obese I ever heard. Does a spinal defect prevent you from eating less food?
I think I disagree with you on this one. With obesity reaching pandemic levels internationally, I think forcing simple healthy choices is actually a great solution that helps a larger majority than those who may be stigmatized by using the escalator (for what may or may not be a visible reason to choose the escalator). At the very least it increases awareness of those healthy choices.
Still curious what the speech bubble says though..
if obesity is reaching a pandemic level, it is obviously no longer treatable with "why don't you walk up the stairs for once, fatso?". if a majority of people are obese it is no longer a question of lifestyle choices.
Exactly. Go to a grocery store and load up on unhealthy shit, then go back to the same store and load up on healthy shit. The price difference is insane, especially when considering shelf life.
I buy frozen vegetables mostly, but I could feed my family a whole lot cheaper on cheap TV dinners.
Now we have (at least in my part of the US) dollar generals popping up in food deserts with the lowest quality shit on the planet. In the neighborhood I grew up in, most people didn’t have cars and the nearest grocery store was 30 miles away. That community is surviving on dollar general groceries now. When I was a kid we bought brown beans and white rice in bulk and lived mostly on that. We drank powdered milk.
When my brother and I refused to eat beans and rice, my mom would color it with food coloring to get us excited. “Who wants BLUE RICE AND BEANS?!” “WE DO! WE DO!”
If we had grown up in the world today, we’d probably be struggling with obesity.
Surely those people can disregard a picture on the floor, no? Anyone with any form of disability has to deal with far more nonsense than this (revolving doors, for example).
it's not about the people who have to take the escalator. it's about what people who have the choice think about them.
if you've ever been mad at someone who parked in a handicap spot only to then get out and have seemingly nothing be visibly wrong with them, you know the thoughts i mean.
I'm only mad if they don't have handicap signage on their vehicle, because a lot of disabilities aren't immediately apparent. For example, my sister-in-law has been diagnosed w/ POTS, but can walk unassisted over moderate distances and frequently doesn't bother w/ a wheelchair (leaning on a cart is usually good enough). However, some days it's much worse, and getting back to the car can be a real struggle. She usually carries a pop-up stool in case she needs a rest, so that would be the only indicator (and hers is pretty compact and not super obvious at what it is).
I'm pretty sure nobody actually cares who rides an escalator, and if they do, they could see a cane and quickly conclude why they made that choice.
but then you understand it, because some people get really mad at people with signage that don't have visible disability. and the illusion of choice presented on this picture is part of that mindset.
analysing things like this is never about the consequences for a single person, but the consequences on the thought patterns of the society that puts these up and have them in their mind while going about their day.
if someone hurls a misguided insult at you for not taking the stairs, no biggie. if society at large quietly shuns you for it, that's not gonna be good for your mental health in the long run.
People with meaningful physical disabilities that make it borderline impossible to climb up stairs account for... A very small slice of the population. The rest of the population should be bullied into a lifestyle that improves physical and mental health.
i'm sorry did you say bullied into a lifestyle that promotes physical and mental health?
Correct, I did say that, and I'm not taking it back. Actually being healthy is better than pretending it's fine to be fat. If everywhere you go, people tolerate your lard, you'll forget the increased issues that come along with being overweight.
you know something interesting? your way is the norm. most fat people are ashamed all the time. the fat acceptance movement is not about saying it's fine to be fat, it's about saying that you, fat person, are not less of a human being for being overweight. the movement exists because the bullying is the default, and it is driving people into depression.
Yeah, fuck me for using a cane, I'm such a big fat fatty and want to be fat.
Yeah as a disabled person seeing that would kind of suck.
Speech bubble doesn't have enough pixels to be read
That’s why they’re black.
Edit: To be clear here I was attempting a pun based on read sounding like red. Hence not enough pixels to be red means it’s black.
You should see the names of asian big and tall clothing shops.
Asia doesn't fuck around when it comes to conformity.
I think it's a good nudge tbh. Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don't have issues with your knees.
I just came back from Japan and 20k steps a day and hundreds of stairs for a month really put me in shape and made me realize how important good shoes are lol
Godammit you have to make such a good and insightful comment and then use lol as punctuation. Fuck that. You're not laughing out loud, liar.
haters gonna hate lol
I literally lolled at this lol
Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don’t have issues with your knees.
I think stairs on the way up is good for health and fine for knees, stairs on the way down doesn't do as much for health and hurts my knees if I do too much.
But then they put a pole in the middle of the escalator access. LOL.
The pole is to prevent people from taking carts and similar objects up and potentially causing an accident
Though it does have unintended consequences
I like the bollard that would make it uncomfortable for really fat people to get by.
I guess there's an upper limit where they're like, "Hey, this is getting ridiculous. Take the stairs."
I've seen escalator mechanisms fail before, I could believe that's a dual purpose for it (as well as presumably carts or scooters)
I go on the escalator but walk because I'm only half lazy and also want to go fast
Walking fast on the moving sidewalks makes me feel like Captain America.
Right to American embassy?
I think it's more like parachute pants to the right, hipster pants to the left. No regular pants allowed.
finally, accommodations for Americans
Baymax
I love it 🤣
It's educational and a good initiative. I use stairs as an opportunity for exercise also.
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