geekandmisandry: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: lyinginbedmon: mistersaturn123:a-can-of-mountain-jew:
geekandmisandry: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: lyinginbedmon: mistersaturn123: a-can-of-mountain-jew: dragonenby: tabbitcha: lemonade-cat: talkearlietome: cartel: hotboysofficial: the future is now are people that lazy to need this While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti. These are used with people who can’t grip well: This is for Parkinsons’s: For people who can’t even bend their joints: Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth This one holds a sandwich Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help. So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it. This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own. the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users. This is actually really nifty. oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent. I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius There’s also something to be said about normalising these products socially by showing abled people using them and marketing to them. If a perfectly able-bodied person with no issues can be seen to use this stuff and, maybe, just be seen as a little silly, then it makes it a lot easier for people who actually legitimately Need to use them. I used to think these products were silly until posts like this pointed out to me that they’re actually really useful and important for people who are disabled or have conditions that make doing things a lot of us take for granted difficult for them and now I’m just really glad that these products exist <3 Plus the ads always make deep fun of abled and it’s hilarious to see how totally inept people are in the commercials. -- source link