I had no idea what you were talking about so I looked it up and my first reaction was a creepily realistic vision of child-me screaming, “WHOA!”
Look at this thing!
I wish my wheelchair looked like that when I was a kid. Hell, I wish my wheelchair looks like that as a 24 year old grad student!
I think you’re coming at this all wrong, not because you’re thinking too much about a children’s toy, but because you’re thinking too much about what would offend wheelchair-users when you’re a Walker. I mean, the last I checked, you Walkers all seem to like standing for some reason, but you don’t see me getting a bad taste in my mouth whenever I see one of those nifty hoverboard scooters that takes standing to a whole new level So why would you (or specifically, why would we as wheelchair-users) be upset that this toy takes sitting to a whole new level? A really cool level at that? It’s no different.
Besides these things are actually way cheaper than pediatric wheelchairs! Why aren’t we having kids use these instead of the hospitals chairs? Wait, I just read this article, people are beginning to use them as wheelchairs:
Yeah, this gets absolutely no criticism from me! On the contrary, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, both from a toy standpoint and a disability standpoint. 10/10 PowerWheels! My fourth-grade-self-who-was-too-poor-to-afford-you-but-buttered-up-to-the-rich-kid-in-elementary-school-because-he-had-a-Chevy-Silverado respected you and my 24-year-old-grad-student-self continues to respect you! You get a Gatsby gif!
Here’s a thought, maybe people’s growing irreverence for 9/11 is because it was a long time ago and younger generations weren’t as affected by it, or maybe they are so sick of the way it has been basically commercialised by politicians and used as a device to justify incalculable pain and they are tired of it being cynically trotted out every year and told to never forget while every year they are also told to all but ignore mass shootings and US humanitarian crimes.
And like, I dunno, maybe it isn’t about disrespecting those who died but refusing, for any number of reasons, to be a part of the governmental hallmark industry that has built up around it.
I take students to see the 9/11 memorial all the time. More and more of the students I get were either so young or not even born yet.
And every time, I ask them, what do you think? What are you feeling? And many of them are hesitant to respond so I’ll prompt, “Was it sad? Was it boring?” And as soon as they know I’m not gonna judge them for it, 100% of the time, they respond, “I feel bad that I don’t feel as moved by it as you. You cried when you told us about it and I get that it was such a horrible day and so many people died, but I can’t really think of what life was like before or just after that time.”
That really struck me the first time I heard it because these kids really don’t remember a time when things were so carefree and relatively quiet. Little to no security screenings. Almost zero school shootings. Kids stayed outside by themselves until the street lamps came on.
Because they grew up in a post-9/11 society, all they’ve ever known is mass violence and distrust of everything. Kids expect a plane to crash into a building, a truck bomb to go off at a big event, a student shooting up a school. And they’ve just got to deal with it and keep moving on or they won’t survive.
I just want you guys to know that the woman of the confused lady meme is a Brazilian actress
it’s a scene from a soap opera. her character was called Nazaré Tedesco. This was one of the most iconic roles in all of Brazilian soap operas. So here goes another iconic scene (it’s Nazaré kidnapping a baby) that you guys can use to make memes:
I’m so glad this post is still going around
wtf this entire time i thought she was the tall lady from american horror story
criticizing childrens media is important and absolutely necessary but when i say i dont want discourse about kids shows im not saying ‘dont call out the racism in thia show, its for kids, it doesnt matter’ what im saying is no i dont want to see essays on why catra from she ra is an irredeemable abuser written by a 26 year old who doesnt go outside
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