Comments on: Recommended Reading for December 17

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:12:49 +0000

“How many disabled people can there be in a major metropolitan city anyways???”

And why on earth would more than one or two of them all turn up at once for a ginormous concert??!?

*facepalm*

By: romham

romham — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:52:26 +0000

im not sure what happened. i do have an active “Do Not Read Comments” rule. Maybe it wasnt posted clearly enough in my brain today.
i especially loved this gem:

“wildone_106 said on December 16, 2009 at 9:11 PM
2 blocks seems a bit EXCESSIVE if you ask me, is there really that many handicapped drivers needing parking?? Seems to me the city is counting on regular good people making a mistake like this and getting a ticket. Shame on them eh? Shame on YOU. And by the way, I cant tell you how many times I’ve seen V8 Mustangs or H2 Hummers with Handicapped signs on them I guess some of them have no trouble putting their foot down on the freeway and still enjoying other privileges.”

i mean really! How many disabled people can there be in a major metropolitan city anyways???
And even if there are, why would they drive sports cars and hummers??
This was sad and hilarious at the same time. What kind of car do disabled folks drive??

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:19:36 +0000

I like how apparently old people not only shouldn’t drive, but should never be driven anywhere, just stay home all day. Handicapped parking applies to passengers as well as drivers!

God, some people are disgusting. Why do I ever read comments on news sites?

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:48:47 +0000

Sarah, I do too. Unless I’ve been warned and then I just can’t help it! (Usually it’s from a feminist site or a progressive site or this site, so I know I’m not the only one gaping at them in horror and if they attack me (or it feels that way), I know there are people who won’t back at the original site expressing the horror more eloquently than I ever could.)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:58:32 +0000

I knew there was a reason I try to have a “don’t read the comments” policy for mainstream news sources.

Those comments were an astonishing combination of ableism and fatphobia.

By: CuteRedHood

CuteRedHood — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:56:07 +0000

This comment on king5.com was the worst!

Ahhh!!

By: Sacha

Sacha — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:45 +0000

Wow. The comments for the King5 clip are particularly obnoxious. I struggle to understand how they could be against both the principle and the practice of the policy.

I’d be prepared to accept a well reasoned argument that someone would not deliberately park in a space reserved “handicapped”, but the signage was unclear and at the time of day in which the spaces are “handicapped only” and there aren’t many people about to ask for advice. “State disabled parking permit ONLY between xxpm-xxam”, with a highlighted “ONLY” and placed at a level between the eye level of a wheelchair user and a non-wheelchair user would have been a better implementation.

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:17 +0000

On the other hand, two blocks of handicapped parking? Way to go Seattle!

And why can’t a handicapped person have a hummer? Handicapped people can be just as (h2 loving adjective) as non-handicapped people.

By: The White Lady

The White Lady — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:56:40 +0000

oh god, why did I read the comments on the last article?!

On the other hand, I think I got bingo in five comments…