Sea_Phrase_Loch
Sea_Phrase_Loch t1_ivm3qmi wrote
Reply to comment by OuidOuigi in US Child Pedestrian Deaths by Day of the Year: 2006-2020 [OC] by rosetechnology
The reason all of those things need cars right now isn’t because they inherently need cars. For groceries, you can easily wheel around a small cart if the grocery store is a 5 minute walk away. (If your neighborhood is designed for walking.) A lot of disabled people who can’t ride on public transportation without specialized vehicles probably can’t drive cars either. (Some common types of disabilities where you need a specialized vehicle are probably like disabilities where you faint (which is quite the liability driving a moving vehicle) or disabilities where your legs don’t work or are weak (you do need reliably working legs to drive a car, afaik. There are modified versions to solve that but depending there’s likely still the difficulty of getting out/in of the car each time as well))
I’m not saying bikes are less dangerous than cars, but they’re not more dangerous either.
It’s also not about nobody owning a car. Cars will always be necessary for some jobs or locations. Just owning a car should not be a requirement to live.
Sea_Phrase_Loch t1_j2chgqr wrote
Reply to comment by dark10043 in 'Drag Story Hour' protest draws passionate crowds outside Queens library by seejordan3
It’s presumably just something fun for the kids and the drag queens + while drag queens don’t inherently have anything to do with being LGBT (although they’re culturally associated), it signals acceptance of diversity and progressive values (ex. that boys can wear dresses too, that it’s okay to express yourself however you want + drag queens are good examples for healthy self-confidence)