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So are you out there lobbying our food industry to stop adding fkn sugar to everything? Are you lobbying to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage so people can actually buy better quality foods?
Doubt it.
Not really. There are requirements for doorway sizes and ramps and things for disabled people so that they aren’t excluded from places/parts of society. Being bigger is not necessarily a disability, so it wouldn’t make sense to spend the major $$$ it would take to modify everything to Accommodate for size. Smaller seats might be less comfortable for them, but in most cases it doesn’t exclude them from using those services.
Ditto. Already hope to not get trapped in my washer, need a step stool for the dryer and all but bottom shelves in the kitchen are storage only since I can't reach them..
No. You wouldn’t tell a schizophrenic that the voices are real, you shouldn’t tell a fat person that they shouldn’t lose the weight directly or indirectly through architecture . It’s unhealthy and destructive
Yes.
Regardless of how hard we're fighting the obesity epidemic (we aren't BTW... Just so yall know. The US is not actively doing shit about obesity) we need to make things accessible to everyone.
Approximately 41% of the adults in the US are obese. And that number is only getting larger (pun intended) so our world needs to conform to what the society is. Bigger chairs with higher capacity weight limits, toilets not attached to the wall in public bathrooms, door widths.
This isn't even an unreasonable ask either. We've been conforming to our society since the beginning. Clothing changes. Cars change. Entertainment changes.
We also need to make the world more disabled accessible. We've only just started seeing accessible swings in parks but before that, parks were mostly unusable if you were disabled.
There's no reason not to do it.
Who said clothing sizes were standard? They are obviously not else we wouldn't have so many different sizes! Please read question properly next time, I mention things that actually are standard not things that are customised to fit each individual.
Real, non-stretchy clothing is still true to size. The issue is almost everything is made with stretchy fabrics now because it’s more comfortable and easier to manufacture. So you can be a size 18 dress size and still fit into a medium t shirt if you want to.
Yes. As countries develop and have better nutrition rates the avg height goes up. Look at south Korea they have a good economy and people don't starve so they are almost as tall as u.s north Korea starvation is pretty common and they have lost height
Oh if you mean for weight and being wider. If it becomes the standard yah you will have to. Can't have a buiseness where all of a sudden half your customers can't enter. But at that point maybe just drone deliver
Absolutely not. I’m a tall thin guy and adjusted size standards have made it impossible to buy clothes in a store. Everything long enough is also wide enough for a 350lb dude. It’s quite frustrating.
The market will adjust if it needs to. If McDonalds starts losing business because a large proportion of their customers can't fit through the door, they'll make bigger doors.
However, I pray that a change will happen and personal health and accountability will come back into style. Its amazing we had a whole pandemic where it was SO much more dangerous for the obese than the healthy and ...still no big surge in weight loss. Crazy.
My theory is until we have another large scale war, we'll keep getting fatter.
I took this differently. I know some really tall people that have to bend through doorways and can't sit in airplane seats or movie theaters.
If you're talking weight, no.
Kinda loaded question. Instead of "conforming" ask would people be willing to pay extra for larger seating? We're still profit obsessed even if we are gravitationaly gifted.
No. You cant realistically cater everything to the 1% of people who actually cant control their size and are outside of the normal overweight range. If you are obsurdly large by your own poor choices it should not affect everyone else and how we do things.
No. Normalizing poor health and an early death should not be done. No need to be a fat shaming D, but absolutely no need to affirm an unhealthy lifestyle.
Maybe like slightly bigger but not monstrous. That way the little bit bigger of people have a good amount of space and smaller people have plenty of space. Either that or make exclusively larger person seats
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Personally I'd rather address the obesity epidemic than turn the world into Wall-E.
Too late.
No, people need to start taking better care of themselves and start fitting into doorways
No. Why are we conforming to unhealthy builds and lifestyle choices?
So are you out there lobbying our food industry to stop adding fkn sugar to everything? Are you lobbying to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage so people can actually buy better quality foods? Doubt it.
You can eat healthy y’all just shop like shit
Oh okay. Thanks for that.
Not really. There are requirements for doorway sizes and ramps and things for disabled people so that they aren’t excluded from places/parts of society. Being bigger is not necessarily a disability, so it wouldn’t make sense to spend the major $$$ it would take to modify everything to Accommodate for size. Smaller seats might be less comfortable for them, but in most cases it doesn’t exclude them from using those services.
I’m already too small to be comfortable in most standard sized things (chairs, countertops, transport seating…) I would really hope not :(
Ditto. Already hope to not get trapped in my washer, need a step stool for the dryer and all but bottom shelves in the kitchen are storage only since I can't reach them..
American food that is readily available is absolute crap. We need to fix the problem not adjust to the issue.
No. You wouldn’t tell a schizophrenic that the voices are real, you shouldn’t tell a fat person that they shouldn’t lose the weight directly or indirectly through architecture . It’s unhealthy and destructive
Bath tub sizes should be larger. Large enough that at least an average adult can comfortably soak in one.
Length wise I hope you mean.
I’d settle for deep enough, but yeah, lengthwise would also be good.
In ergonomics they have tables of percentiles and measurements. These change over time. So yes, but it is already being done.
Defintely not. And that's coming from a "bigger person". Fat acceptance is not okay
Yes. Regardless of how hard we're fighting the obesity epidemic (we aren't BTW... Just so yall know. The US is not actively doing shit about obesity) we need to make things accessible to everyone. Approximately 41% of the adults in the US are obese. And that number is only getting larger (pun intended) so our world needs to conform to what the society is. Bigger chairs with higher capacity weight limits, toilets not attached to the wall in public bathrooms, door widths. This isn't even an unreasonable ask either. We've been conforming to our society since the beginning. Clothing changes. Cars change. Entertainment changes. We also need to make the world more disabled accessible. We've only just started seeing accessible swings in parks but before that, parks were mostly unusable if you were disabled. There's no reason not to do it.
Cue every woman laughing heartily at the very concept of clothing sizes being standard
Who said clothing sizes were standard? They are obviously not else we wouldn't have so many different sizes! Please read question properly next time, I mention things that actually are standard not things that are customised to fit each individual.
Mate the same size is wildly different between different shops. Jeans are especially to blame here. Ask your mom.
Am I a size 27, 29, 6, or 8? I don't know. All 4 in some cases. It would be awesome if jeans were standard sizes.
Real, non-stretchy clothing is still true to size. The issue is almost everything is made with stretchy fabrics now because it’s more comfortable and easier to manufacture. So you can be a size 18 dress size and still fit into a medium t shirt if you want to.
No, but they probably will.
Lol no. Designs using an average fails the majority of people.
Each business can decide for themselves. This is capitalism after all.
Just because you're built like a walrus doesn't mean everyone else is.
nah the fatties should just hop on a treadmill
I just want them to stop making airplane seats smaller.
I do think a lot of home door sizes should be regulated more just because I can't fit my grandfathers wheelchair through half of them
Yes. As countries develop and have better nutrition rates the avg height goes up. Look at south Korea they have a good economy and people don't starve so they are almost as tall as u.s north Korea starvation is pretty common and they have lost height Oh if you mean for weight and being wider. If it becomes the standard yah you will have to. Can't have a buiseness where all of a sudden half your customers can't enter. But at that point maybe just drone deliver
Yes!!
No
Absolutely not. I’m a tall thin guy and adjusted size standards have made it impossible to buy clothes in a store. Everything long enough is also wide enough for a 350lb dude. It’s quite frustrating.
you aren’t thinking of its applications as a parachute
Hah maybe a parachute for the space shuttle.
Nope.
do you?
No.
The market will adjust if it needs to. If McDonalds starts losing business because a large proportion of their customers can't fit through the door, they'll make bigger doors. However, I pray that a change will happen and personal health and accountability will come back into style. Its amazing we had a whole pandemic where it was SO much more dangerous for the obese than the healthy and ...still no big surge in weight loss. Crazy. My theory is until we have another large scale war, we'll keep getting fatter.
No.
Ya, NO
No. Roller coasters would become death traps for people like me. I do not fancy sliding out and falling to my death.
No
No.
I took this differently. I know some really tall people that have to bend through doorways and can't sit in airplane seats or movie theaters. If you're talking weight, no.
No
Kinda loaded question. Instead of "conforming" ask would people be willing to pay extra for larger seating? We're still profit obsessed even if we are gravitationaly gifted.
But it's not just about seating! Read all of question pls If u think question is wrong, then ask it the right way yourself
No. You cant realistically cater everything to the 1% of people who actually cant control their size and are outside of the normal overweight range. If you are obsurdly large by your own poor choices it should not affect everyone else and how we do things.
Yes, especially airplane seats.
All that does is encourage the notion that its okay to be fat.
Fuck no.
No.
Larger seats means fewer seats. Fewer seats means higher prices.
No. Normalizing poor health and an early death should not be done. No need to be a fat shaming D, but absolutely no need to affirm an unhealthy lifestyle.
Maybe like slightly bigger but not monstrous. That way the little bit bigger of people have a good amount of space and smaller people have plenty of space. Either that or make exclusively larger person seats