“Only last year did anyone think to build a bike for someone who’s heavier than 300 pounds.”
Everyday Feminism’s Emily Zak on why outdoor recreation is, like everything else, oppressive and unfair.
“Only last year did anyone think to build a bike for someone who’s heavier than 300 pounds.”
Everyday Feminism’s Emily Zak on why outdoor recreation is, like everything else, oppressive and unfair.
I have a son who is my height (5′ 10″) but struggles with his weight (about 270 at the moment). I feel for the one complaining about “The barriers to outdoor recreation are very real”. The fundamental difference between my son and the person quoted is this: my son trains in the martial arts and goes out for a walk almost every single day (up to 6 miles) as weather allows. And I go with him because his goals and attitude are right. And although it is a bit trite, it is truthful: “Winners train, whiners complain”.
Since she doesn’t like that logging is filled with “hyper-masculine” men, does that mean that a certain Monty Python sketch is actually a proclamation of SJW doctrine?
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK …
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars.
Sounds rather “progressive” to me … no ?
The injustice has already been rectified with the Bicycle built for Two.
so why doesn’t she build a bicycle for a 300 pound person instead of whining in my ear. Oh, sorry, that would mean she would have to do something constructive with her time and brain. Silly me!!
Always knew that there is something capitalist about the greens, green spaces, the forests, the meadows, though could not quite grasp it.
Thanks to the social engineer, now I got it.
That sketch is featured in the Monty Python movie And Now For Something Completely Different.
I saw that flick in a student cinema while I was an undergrad. At the point when the opening lines were spoken, the whole audience broke into applause. We knew what was coming!
Modern feminism needs a plumber. It’s just drip after friggin’ drip.
Can she prance up a hill?
No no no no no!
I cannot think of a single bicycle incapable of supporting a 300lb heifer. Perhaps a “girls” bike design … with the typical cut-away, swoop-low, frame … would be overstressed by a 300lb tub of female goo ? In that case, the overweight heffe’s can simply ride a more substantial “men’s” bike ? That is … IF … they can hoist their giant FUPA over the “men’s” frame. THAT was a visual I DID NOT need.
Most logging jobs these days are “fat-man” jobs (machine operators with quad valves). Any woman with hand-eye coordination can do it and some do. One of the hardest jobs in the woods, particularly on tall men, is tree planting which is done by many women. As for a bicycle for 300 pounders, it just takes balloon tires and a tractor seat.
It is true that if you are heavy and go out to hike or just walk around or God forbid assume that you may actually ride a bike, you will be catcalled and made to generally pay for your effrontery.
You can convert a regular bike by getting one of those big old tractor seats. Get your husband to mount it, he is probably pretty good at mounting things.
If ones husband NEEDS to retrofit a tractor seat to support his wife’s spreading posterior … he’s long forgotten how to “mount” things. Unless he has taken his (implied) FREE pass for a neighbor affair.
I call BS. I was 310 lbs when I started out on my Ironman Challenge, and low and behold I found a bike that fit me perfect. I lost 90 lbs on my way to completing my Ironman, so you can find what you need if you really want too!
“Take race, for one. A 2016 study shows more than three in four US young adults who participate in outdoor activities are white. Nearly 80% of National Park visitors are, too.”
The US is 72.41% white. Three in four is 75 %. How stupid is this person.
National parks tend to be where God put white people so they are over-represented. If they had a National Carjacking Museum, I’m sure things would be different.
As Arthur Gordfrey put it so succinctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a31vY8YNTg
The real reason they don’t generally build bicycles for the over-300-pounds demographic is simple: that demographic doesn’t ride bikes that require human propulsion.
In other words, there’s no market.
“Oh, I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok. I sleep all night and I play all day”
I wouldn’t believe any studies regarding racial demographics that were made during the Obama era.
Just ask George Zimmerman what he thinks about them.
Ah, instant gratification… Maybe if you’re too heavy for a bike, you need to work on that first.
And there are plenty of outdoor recreation options where weight isn’t as much of a barrier. Swim in the ocean or a lake, hike in the hills, golf… granted that someone weighing 300 pounds won’t fit in a regular kayak, but there are sit-on-top versions and an old-fashioned rowboat or canoe is probably doable unless you’re truly in TLC reality-show territory, in which case you have more pressing concerns than bicycles.
When I weighed 260, I started out just walking around my neighborhood, then along the river trails, etc. It was months before I got to more strenuous things like sprint intervals and even longer before I ventured into hiking.
Either way, keep it up and eventually you don’t need to care about the reinforced bike. But that burns more calories than just whining and making excuses.
Ah, instant gratification… Maybe if you’re too heavy for a bike, you need to work on that first.
And there are plenty of outdoor recreation options where weight isn’t as much of a barrier. Swim in the ocean or a lake, hike in the hills, golf… granted that someone weighing 300 pounds won’t fit in a regular kayak, but there are sit-on-top versions and an old-fashioned rowboat or canoe is probably doable unless you’re truly in TLC reality-show territory, in which case you have more pressing concerns than bicycles.
When I weighed 260, I started out just walking around my neighborhood, then along the river trails, etc. It was months before I got to more strenuous things like sprint intervals and even longer before I ventured into hiking.
Either way, keep it up and eventually you don’t need to care about the reinforced bike. But that burns more calories than just whining and making excuses.