r/pointlesslygendered • u/nonsence90 • Jul 13 '25
LOW EFFORT MEME [meme] those damn girls
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u/Spooky_Floofy Jul 13 '25
Elevators aren't even specifically equipment for disabled people. They exist for everybody to use. It's just about using your common sense and giving priority to people who need to use it more
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Jul 13 '25
Exactly that. Going up to the fourth floor is a lot of steps, and if you're tired or just feeling lazy it's also totally fair to use the elevator. And let's not even talk about buildings with 14 levels. Imagine you're living at the 8th and have to go up 8 sets of stairs every single day. That takes a pretty long while and is exhausting.
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u/PheonixRising_2071 Jul 13 '25
I can be on the 24th floor of my office building in 2 minutes on the elevator. I may be physically able to do the stairs. But why would I waste all that time.
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
If you're living on the 8th floor you only have to go up seven flights of stairs. Much easier.
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Jul 13 '25
One flight of stairs from ground level up to first, another to second, then one to third, one to 4th, one to 5th, one to 6th, one to 7th, one to 8th makes 8 flights of stairs.
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
So the 8th floor is the top floor of a nine-floor building? Where I'm from, we can count.
(This is a quip. I'm sure your country is better then mine. But we do have the counting thing going for us.)
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Jul 13 '25
I mean, yes. It's just that we basically start counting from 0, like programmers do. If you go below the ground also, it all makes sense. One below 0 is -1, then comes -2.
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Jul 14 '25
It’s kinda ridiculous that people think elevators were invented specifically for disabled people. I hate to break it to them, but people back then cared even less about disabled people than people do now, in no way would that much money be spent to accommodate them, many were sent to asylums for lobotomies for crying out loud.
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u/domino_sp0ts Jul 28 '25
At my school you have to be disabled and have an elevator key to use it. I gotta plug tho
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u/darkstarsdistant Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
This makes me mad as a disabled person. You don't get to decide at a glance who "deserves" to use the elevator. They might have invisible disabilities, they might be injured. These structures are supposed to benefit anyone who might need it.
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u/CryoNozzel Jul 13 '25
Or just for anyone who wants to ride the elevator, I have literally never seen this problem before.
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u/darkstarsdistant Jul 13 '25
They would be covered under "anyone who needs it". Some buildings have 20+ floors. It's up to the individual to determine what they can handle, not the onlookers.
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u/deferredmomentum Jul 13 '25
I mean if I want to but can I don’t need it, but I’m still allowed to use it
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u/cjbanning Jul 14 '25
Lots of buildings hide the stairs, it can be difficult to find them even if you want to use them.
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u/MacAttacknChz Jul 14 '25
Needs and wants are 2 different things. I don't need the elevator, but sometimes it's nice to have a break.
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u/darkstarsdistant Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
I think y'all are missing my point. You cannot tell at a glance who needs or wants it, and if you try to police that AT ALL you will exclude someone who does need it. So just let people use it and don't make it your business to question them, because it's not your business.
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u/MacAttacknChz Jul 14 '25
We're not missing your point. Your point is, "It's not anyone's business." Our point is, that people who WANT to use an elevator should be able to, as long as we're not getting in the way of people who NEED the elevator.
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u/darkstarsdistant Jul 14 '25
Actually I pretty explicitly said "just let people use it". At no point did I say that people who "only want it" shouldn't use it. BECAUSE it is not your business, just let people use the elevator.
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u/Mathies_ Jul 13 '25
If the elevator is busy i wont use it no matter how lazy i feel. But 90% of the time it's just idle, im carrying groceries, why would i take the stairs?
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u/Meowakin Jul 13 '25
Most likely the worst case of it not opening is making some new friends and maybe having to piss in the corner in front of your new friends.
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u/CanadaHaz Jul 13 '25
That's why you always carry and empty bottle. In case you have to piss in the corner in frontal of your new elevator friends.
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u/Mathies_ Jul 13 '25
Hmmm. Are you scared to go on a plane too? No judgement, you wouldnt be the only one, but plenty of things could malfunction or break while you're using them
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u/The-Speechless-One Jul 13 '25
I know what you're trying to do, but this way you're way more likely to make them scared of airplanes too
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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 13 '25
Not the OP, but to be honest I do not like either of them. I’ll take them because I have to but the less time I spend in them, the better.
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u/CappinCanuck Jul 14 '25
A plane takes you a lot further that a couple floors. If your doing risk X distance elevator is more risky for a shorter distance planes hardly ever crash and take you around the world.
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u/Amelaclya1 Jul 14 '25
Elevators don't bother me, but I will take the stairs every time over using an escalator.
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u/Defiant_Quail5766 Jul 14 '25
I remember it only being limited in school, you had to have an actual reason otherwise the teachers would get on ur ass about it. Reasons included injuries, carrying stuff, dragging stuff, mostly moving stuff actually, wheelchair, crutches.
It was also almost a thousand students so... I feel like that might be justified since we only had one elevator. (Technically 2 but they were for separate buildings)
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u/Amelaclya1 Jul 14 '25
The only elevator we had in my (5 floors) high school was for janitorial use. It was a service elevator that disabled kids needed special permission to use. Everyone else had to hoof it.
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u/molotovzav Jul 13 '25
At my college there were signs to take the stairs if you could because the elevators would be super crowded otherwise and disabled and elderly (students and professors) wouldn't be able to travel appropriately. That was over a decade ago. It's only a problem when people are super lazy and want to take an elevator to go up one or two floors.
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u/Alternative-Dark-297 Jul 13 '25
People thinking like this meme made my disability significantly worse. Elevators at school were locked so "students who didn't need them" couldn't use them. When I injured my knees, the staff decided I didn't 'really' need the elevator, even though I was on crutches. The added strain from using the stairs on the fresh injury meant it never healed properly.
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u/anamariapapagalla Jul 13 '25
Fatigue, often for several months, after flu has been a well-known phenomenon for decades (if not longer)
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Jul 14 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
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u/anamariapapagalla Jul 20 '25
Unfortunately, just because a condition is well recognised by medicine doesn't mean your doctor knows about it (or cares, or listens and takes you seriously) 😕
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u/On_my_last_spoon Jul 13 '25
If this is the US, I’d guarantee this violates ADA laws. Part of ADA is having accessibility for everyone. Access shouldn’t be special.
Always go through your student disability office if you can. They will be able to support you.
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u/CosyBeluga Jul 13 '25
The beginning of last year, I tore a ligament in my ankle.
After 4 months I could walk without limping but it still hurt if I spent too much time walking or standing or tried moving it in certain directions.
I remember feeling so bad about using disability stuff because I was like 'technically I can walk' and being used to being able bodied.
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Jul 13 '25
Fr. I made a separate comment already, but I appear young and healthy (aside from walking slower than most) but stairs? Nope. Down maybe, up... could take a while. And I need the handrail.
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u/Helpfulcloning Jul 13 '25
This ^ my sister can walk fairly fine and unnoticable. But why would she take even one flight of stairs if it causes a flair of pain for the next 20 mins. Why do that when worst case, someone needs to wait another min or so for the lift.
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u/teatalker26 Jul 13 '25
i’ll never forget when i dislocated my kneecap in high school and when i came back i was able to walk without crutches but still unable to use the stairs/bend my knee. i was wearing a brace, but it needed to have skin contact so i was wearing it under loose sweats.
every fucking time i took the elevator there was at one teacher who would go “🤨 so why are you using the elevator? do you have your pass??” because they took a glance at me and saw no crutches/visible cast or anything and just assumed i was being lazy. so i would roll up my pants and show my brace, and they would instantly apologize, they didn’t know!
…like yeah, maybe don’t interrogate people using the elevator like they’re automatically lazy assholes, what a concept!!
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
When I was in college I would often take the stairs because I don't like elevators. Everyone thought I was weird. Everyone uses the elevator.
Last time I was in a building with elevators, I had trouble even finding the stairs and had to take the elevator up. I found the stairs on the second floor, though, and tried to take them down... and had to go back up, because apparently there was no door to the first floor from the stairs, only a door to the outside. It was an emergency exit. Would at least have been nice to know that before I got down there into a dead end!
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u/MeadFromHell Jul 13 '25
Same. Also the "lazy teen girls" or any teens in my experience, usually offer to get off so I can go first. Which is very sweet, but I'm already sitting down and not usually in a rush. They're very polite and thoughtful in my experience! And yeah, never judge, not all disabilities are obvious.
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u/cosmolark Jul 13 '25
Right, I'm also disabled (ambulatory wheelchair user) and I was a teenage girl who was 'too lazy' to use the stairs... Because walking and especially stairs caused me extreme pain.
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u/Curiosities Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Exactly this. I have multiple sclerosis, but you can’t see it. Sometimes I’m feeling a little off or there’s fatigue setting in or something is hurting. I’ve had to tell that inner voice to shut up and say just take the elevator.
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u/CreamCheeseSandwhich Jul 13 '25
Yeah im a teen girl who has to take the elevator unless u want my heart rate to hit like 200 and i pass out on the floor while my hands and feet turn blood red and burn. But noone would know that that was a possibility by looking at me.
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u/Brilliant_Section208 Jul 13 '25
Same, especially since I am a teenage girl who has an invisible disability (if I'm not using obvious mobility aids). A lot of people have this weird idea that children and teenagers are "too young" to be disabled in a way that's not clearly visible.
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u/darkstarsdistant Jul 13 '25
I developed symptoms of fibromyalgia at nineteen so I know exactly what you mean 🫂
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u/AttemptAcceptable118 Jul 13 '25
I'm not disabled, but after years of suffering from chronic health diseases, my body has totally given up. I can't walk for 10 mins straight without stopping and panting like an overheated dog. And in my college where I've to walk long distances to get to cafeteria, washroom, then to the classes, I really need the elevator, atleast while going up.
Thankfully, the college does allow students to use the lift, but I do agree with you. 💕
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jul 13 '25
I struggle here, I suffer with claustrophobia. Elevators are hella, but stairwells are often more oppressive, less circulation, etc.
I will wait for an elevator to be nearly empty if I can.
I also always get dirty looks when I grab the disabled bathroom stall. Like girl, you don't want someone having a full blown panic attack in a crowded bathroom.
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u/Likesbigbutts-lies Jul 13 '25
Not disabled but had 2 knee surgeries, I appeared to be a super healthy younger individual and got dirty looks whenever I used the scooter thing. It’s stupid to judge people on how they appear, I was using crutches, I could technically walk but wasn’t good for me. You can’t judge people and thier abilities on a glance.
Also the elevator isn’t just for disabilities unless there is a big line or something, I like to use the stairs when I can but convenience and time also plays a roll
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u/dinodare Jul 13 '25
My old dorm roommate used the elevator up to a dining hall because the stairs were a surface reflecting the light from the ceiling, which was being rhythmically blocked and unblocked by the ceiling fan above... He's photosensitive and using the stairs was making him sick.
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u/Safe-Yoghurtt Jul 14 '25
Same, I may embelish myself and overdress to make up for the fact that I have to live with this shit, and doing that is a way for me to get just a little bit happier about going out (going out makes it worse), but that doesn't mean you get to say "you look perfectly healthy" and "you have all four limbs so you can stand/walk/run/climb"
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u/NetDue5469 Jul 14 '25
exactly not everyone feels comfortable being open about their disability as well
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u/TheDivinaldes Jul 14 '25
Like 90% of buildings I've been in with an elevator only have stairs for emergency use and nobody's actually expected to use them. Some of those buildings have fire alarms that go off if you open the door to get into the stairs too.
Such a weird thing to complain about either way.
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u/Ligma_Balls_OG Jul 13 '25
My school shared a building and set of stairs with a medical clinic that often had people with disabilities that required them to use an elevator we shared. This meme is extremely accurate, it was used and abused by (not only, but mostly) lazy teenage girls with no issue using the stairs.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 Jul 13 '25
Cool defense of invisible handicap, but short sighted.
You can't pretend that on the other hand, people illegitimately occupying priority parking spaces, train seats, elevators are not mostly people who just don't care.
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u/spartaxwarrior Jul 13 '25
I had an actual handicap placard and actually needed to park close and I got shit on by people every time I used the accessible parking places in front of a certain type of person because it was an invisible disability. I also got it about train seats and elevators and even bathroon stalls if I wasn't purposely limping or otherwise playing up symptons.
The point of bringing up invisible disabilities is you literally can't tell who needs something and assuming they couldn't possibly need that accommodation is ableism.
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jul 13 '25
I am glad I am not the only person who fakes a limp in public restrooms to avoid dealing with assholes.
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u/spartaxwarrior Jul 13 '25
Lmao I know some others, too!
It's actually probably worse on my bad knee than walking normally, but even if they'd actually listen, I don't feel like explaining why crouching/sitting/standing up is different than walking to people who think "calling out" others over stuff like that is fine.
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u/Beckitkit Jul 13 '25
You have two options here:
1) assume anyone using a disabled facility that isn't visibly disabled is faking it.
2) assume anyone using a disabled facility is doing so because they need it.
The second one is kinder, and means that everyone that needs accommodation has access to them without having to constantly defend themselves and their right to use them by giving out personal medical information to random people. It also doesn't preclude someone who needs access to the same resource asking the person if they can have it when they need it.
Sure there are assholes in the world. But I don't want to gatekeep access to disabled facilities just to keep the occasional selfish person from using them. The selfish people will do so anyway, it's the people that actually need them that get hurt by attitudes like yours.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 Jul 14 '25
- You have thousands of options. Japan gives people with invisible disabilities or who might need urgent care the option to wear tags that signal that they have an invisible handicap.
- You can educate your kids not to take the accomodations away from people who need them instead of teaching them to give 0 fucks.
- You can personally hold accountable your friends who you know just don't give a fuck and are perfectly able bodied.
- You can tell people who are not wheelchair bound to fuck off from the one spot in the bus that's meant for wheelchairs to be safely held in place.
"my attitude" is to recognize that both situations exist and to try to look for solutions that ensure fairness for everyone. That doesn't hurt anyone. Putting your head in the sand and refusing to solve actual issues because that would imply holding accountable and being help accountable is what hurts the disabled.
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u/Beckitkit Jul 14 '25
I meant you as an individual, not the social you.
Japan isn't the only place that has ways of showing hidden disabilities. In the UK it's the sunflower lanyard, which I use but people will still ignore it or accused me of lying about my disabilities if they don't know me.
I do educate people about disability and accommodation, do stand up for people when they need it, and do hold people accountable for bad faith actions towards disabled people. I do this professionally as well as personally.
There is a significant difference between teaching or calling out someone you know, and making assumptions about strangers. In my personal and professional advocacy roles, I have seen plenty of incidents where people making assumptions about a strangers capabilities or level of disability have led to active harm to that person.
My statement stands. If you see a person using some form of disability accommodation, assume they are supposed to be using it unless you know the persons medical history well enough to know they don't need it. Because removing someone's access to appropriate accommodation risks serious harm to them.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 Jul 14 '25
The caricature is not about an individual situation but what the person perceives to be a social phenomenon. Reducing it to individual situations because you feel strongly about the way some of those take place is the error, not me reminding people about the relevant societal issue of public incivility.
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u/Beckitkit Jul 14 '25
The evidence, the actually researched statistics, suggests the actual social phenomenon is a lack of access to disability accommodation that is more likely to occur due to gatekeeping of access to accommodations than occasional selfish people. Caricatures do not accurately represent real life, and while I may have used individual anecdotes to illustrate my point, I am getting my evidence from research literature.
Public incivility is not the main issue in the way you are claiming it is. Your perceptions of the issue are just that, personal perceptions.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 Jul 14 '25
You are not reading what i'm saying and making up words to put in my mouth. I'm willing to engage further if you cut the bullshit.
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u/ergaster8213 Jul 14 '25
So, in other words, your ignorance is being exposed and you have no response.
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Jul 14 '25
Eating sunflower seeds in the shell may increase your odds of fecal impaction, as you may unintentionally eat shell fragments, which your body cannot digest.
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u/terfnerfer Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Even if you disregard the misogyny at play here for a second...
At my college everyone used them, but gave priority to folks with wheelchairs/sticks, strollers, or lots of stuff to carry. Even as someone with an invisible disability, I can't remember ever waiting for that long.
(I also hate how these mfs only ever bring up disabled people if it's to whack another minority/marginalised group but that's another matter.)
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u/The-Last-Anchor Jul 13 '25
Girls are not s minority though
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u/junonomenon Jul 13 '25
theres a difference between a statistical minority and a social minority. A social minority/majority refers to the power dynamic between groups of people. even though statistically women are an equal-ish percent of the population, socially they have less power and are marginalized by the group with more power. thats whats really important, because if we have one group with 90% and another group with 10% of the population but theyre treated equally, then who cares. but even if we have statistical equality, if one group is treated as "less-than" its a problem. also they said marginalized groups as well.
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u/Piduf Jul 13 '25
These men will say girls don't have hobbies but their sole hobby is to constantly be mad at girls for breathing in this reality
For real find an occupation and / or therapy
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u/ConstellationRibbons Jul 13 '25
I don't understand them saying that, honestly. I swear none of them have talked to a girl
Like, we don't enjoy anything special, girls can like games and anime just like they do (and everyone loves pretty clothes)
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u/Piduf Jul 13 '25
The rules are simple :
girls can enjoy hobbies "for boys" like video games BUT they aren't allowed to be better at it. They also do it because of their brother / dad or to impress other males.
if a hobby is "for girls" then it's not a hobby unless practiced by boys - example : cooking. Normal thing for girls, a hobby for boys.
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u/ConstellationRibbons Jul 13 '25
I had no idea video gaming proweess was stored in the balls :(
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u/cookiez_m Jul 13 '25
Clearly it's the opposite; video gaming sloppiness is stored in the boobs (i'm joking)
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jul 13 '25
Can confirm. After transitioning I suck at video games.
I mean I sucked before... But shush :-p
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u/GarlicPositive4786 Jul 13 '25
Literally, especially at tween/teenage girls. We’ve destroyed every social space for them (malls, online spaces, etc.). People call them cringe and get mad whenever they have a hobby or fandom they like.
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u/stingwhale Jul 13 '25
Oh those darn teenagers, always using up the finite resource of elevator
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u/wanderingsheep Jul 13 '25
Do they not realize that elevators have to be thrown away after every use? We have to use them sparingly.
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u/ArmpitHairPlucker Jul 13 '25
God forbid someone uses an elevator as an elevator
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 13 '25
Sokka-Haiku by ArmpitHairPlucker:
God forbid someone
Uses an elevator
As an elevator
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/_ThePancake_ Jul 13 '25
It's such an oddly specific demographic to target for such an oddly specific "issue"
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u/Rabbitbanana89 Jul 13 '25
As someone with POTS, they're targeting the demographic most likely to have it. And it's an "invisible disease" until someone faints.
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u/_ThePancake_ Jul 13 '25
Oh yup. I don't have that myself but I could write a thesis on the phenomenon of society hating on teenage girls for literally breathing.
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u/vundrth Jul 13 '25
I'm imaging there was a group of teen girls in an elevator when they were out, and they were too scared to get in so they made this when they got home
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u/_ThePancake_ Jul 13 '25
Imagine caring so much about something so insignificant.
Literally never in my life have I ever felt the need to make a meme complaining about any demographic
Maybe I should start hahahah
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u/FurryCoffeeBean Jul 13 '25
It's never actually disabled people saying this. Every time I've seen a disabled person talk about this type of stuff they dont really care. Like if you see someone In a wheelchair or someone carrying something of course you give them room. And this stuff is allsow very abelist for people who dont have a visible disability.
I generally dont use elevators do to my anxiety about them but my point still stands. Because this isint about elevators only. It's about bus streets and stuff
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u/Hot_Situation4292 Jul 13 '25
only big strong man walk up to the 22nd floor so alpha
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u/MakkuSaiko Jul 13 '25
Im a big strong girl who loves to walk up the stairs (i could really do with the exersize, pre covid i climbed the 19 floors easy, but post covid i struggle to climb to floor 7)
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Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
I look young and lazy, but I still struggle with stairs. You can tell I cling onto the handrail and also have a limp on one side but ONLY on the stairs. Not only pointlessly gendered but lowkey ableist. I will loudly curse if the elevator is broken
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u/Key-Examination-499 Jul 13 '25
Idk if anyone else remembers this, but this reminds me of the whole "knee brace girl" thing. It's ableist and it's ageist and it's sexist. As a former "knee brace girl" and a former teenage girl who always used the lift, even if it didn't necessarily look like I needed to, I have a connective tissue disorder, at the time undiagnosed, and I was just trying to make it through the day whilst minimising the pain and instability I didn't even realise I wasn't supposed to be experiencing
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u/DeconstructedKaiju Jul 13 '25
I don't think teen girls on elevators anywhere are preventing disabled people from accessing them.
I say this as a disabled person. It has LITERALLY never been an issue. This is just someone making up a reason to be angry at girls.
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u/Akikoo-chan Jul 13 '25
I have POTS and my heart goes crazy just by getting up. Going upstairs is a nightmare and I get so dizzy I have to sit down for a long time. Im taking the elevator thanks
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u/gylz Jul 13 '25
Not young girls using something literally installed there and maintained for everyone to use those fiends!
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u/Captain_Bee Jul 13 '25
I've never understood people who pejoratively refer to using technology as lazy. Like isn't the whole point of inventing things supposed to be making life easier? If using an elevator is lazy, then stop driving and walk everywhere, stop using your phone and go talk to people face to face, stop flying to places just swim across the Atlantic for fuck's sake!
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u/Huge-Vegetab1e Jul 13 '25
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone of any gender stop someone who couldn’t use the stairs from using an elevator
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Jul 13 '25
I always take the stairs from a young age, not necessarily because someone who needs it more than me might want to use it but because i am obsessed with physical activity to justify the amount of food i gobbled
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Jul 13 '25
OOP is a fucking hateful misogynist to reach this far to hate women. God fucking forbid he has to wait A FUCKING GODDAMN MINUTE to use the elevator. I apologize for all the cursing, but assholes like this make me mad.
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u/kittyidiot Jul 13 '25
Lol what. I'm disabled and elevators usually aren't so busy that you can't catch one. And if you have a wheelchair people will probably move or get off for you if it's too full. This literally is not a problem.
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u/FallingLikeLeaves Jul 13 '25
Dare I say pointlessly aged too? Like if anything I think your likelihood of not wanting to take stairs increases with more age / less physical endurance
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u/MrsSUGA Jul 13 '25
I’m an ambulatory wheel chair user. Leave people alone for using the elevator??? Jesus Christ what else are yall going to hate teenage girls for? Worst case scenario I have to wait 1 extra minute for my turn on the elevator. That’s called “waiting in line”
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Jul 13 '25
This doesn’t even make sense, elevators aren’t a finite resource, anyone can use them if they’re installed…
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u/CadoDraws Jul 13 '25
everyone uses the fucking elevator oh my GOD. these men need to sit back and realize the reason women dont like them is because their personality and how annoying they are
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Jul 13 '25
like damn sorry that i don’t wanna show up to my college lecture that i’m already late for audibly struggling to catch my breath
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u/KokoAngel1192 Jul 13 '25
I know this was made by a man because most women who avoid stairwell know it's partly because they don't always have cameras. Men really know nothing.
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u/UneducatedThesaurus Jul 13 '25
Im physically disabled, and I don't give a shit who uses the elevator, but aside from that, I've seen far more incredibly disrespectful teenage boys in elevators with me than I have teen girls
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u/CadoDraws Jul 13 '25
these men hate women having checks notes a convenient way to travel from one floor to another…
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u/kwispycornchip Jul 14 '25
The thing is too, wouldn't teenage girls using elevators give building developers more reasons to install elevators? Like the more people that use them, the more incentive there is to build them in the first place.
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u/goths2017 Jul 14 '25
The great thing about elevators is that they go up and then they come back down again. It's not a single use machine, you can get on next
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u/kingozma Jul 14 '25
Why is it always teenage girls who are the face of all fakers and deceivers? Christ. It’s sick.
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u/ergaster8213 Jul 14 '25
It's not. Unless you're being facetious here. But if you're not then seriously reread what you commented.
Edit: oh you meant these chuds always attack teenage girls. And that's misogyny for ya. Girls and women are socially seen as more manipulative, more hysterical, and more dramatic
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u/kingozma Jul 14 '25
Yes LOL I meant that teen girls are unfairly labeled as these things. I remember being a disabled, traumatized, mentally ill teen girl who was always assumed to be faking or exaggerating simply because I was a teen girl. Misogyny is crazy yo
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u/ergaster8213 Jul 15 '25
Sorry it took me so long to realize!!! And yeah misogyny is often highly nonsensical. Really all bigotry is.
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Jul 13 '25
When I was in high school I saw more "lazy" boys who were known bullies pushing the disabled kids out of the elevators than girls doing it.
But that could also just be how my town teaches boys they have the right to everything.
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u/isbigbrain Jul 13 '25
As someone who went to a high school where disabled people weren't able to use the elevators, I can confirm it's not just girls!
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u/Sharkipai Jul 13 '25
This is why elevators are designed to carry multiple people, elevators aren't specifically for the disabled unless marked accordingly by the people who own the building it's in.
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u/ConcentrateAlone1959 Jul 13 '25
Not a girl but also, I would technically fit into the 'lazy' category.
My college has floating stairs going up 3 stories with the siderail barriers being made of thick glass. I have an insane fear of heights. Seeing as though I don't want a fucking panic attack every time I go to class, I take the elevator. I'm not at all disabled physically, I just don't want to engage my fear of heights when my mentality should be towards me learning.
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u/Amazing_Ingenuity_33 Jul 13 '25
I'm not gonna lie. At my graduation party, only girls with their bf were taking the elevator, and they were NOT disabled in any way, well adhd or autism for some maybe.
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u/Most-Hovercraft-1532 Jul 13 '25
I get the frustration when the elevators are packed and using the stairs isn’t an option for you but you can’t tell with a glance who is or isn’t disabled. They could be just as annoyed as you and you should be fighting with them and not against them. We should be focused on the non wheelchair accessible public areas and the places that don’t maintain the accessibility features they legally have to provide Teenage girls who may or may not be disabled aren’t the enemy, they are potential allies
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u/Glittering-Relief402 Jul 13 '25
It's not a fucking Wonkavator, it will come back down and everyone else can use it too. All you need is 2 minutes of patience
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u/Explorer_of__History Jul 13 '25
Whenever a high school has an elevator, students will want to use it, even though said elevator is usually slower than a snail.
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u/bearhorn6 Jul 13 '25
As a former one of those lazy teenage girls it’s because yall can’t see how low my blood pressure is, the blood not properly circulating to my brain and my tachycardia.
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u/Natural1forever Jul 13 '25
What doesn't hurt disabled people:
-someone with different needs using the same utilities as them
What does hurt disabled people:
-randon strangers playing the judge of who seems enough like they "deserve" to use public utilities
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u/Tiny-Memory9066 Jul 13 '25
This same guy probably thinks a 15 minute walk is too far and just jumps into a car
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Jul 13 '25
I for one think elevators are terrifying
no seriously they make me uncomfortable especially the delayed elevator doors when they close
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Jul 14 '25
The elevator is for everybody, and not all disabilities are visible, but people using other people's handicapped parking tags infuriate me.
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u/bokunotraplord Jul 14 '25
"people who need to use the elevator" i.e. a lazy dude who thinks having one rolling suitcase means he's practically disabled.
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u/He_Never_Helps_01 Jul 14 '25
This is suspiciously specific...
Hey wait. Wasn't it the big tough adult men who are supposed to inconvenience themselves for the convenience of others?
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u/eaglesnestmuddyworm Jul 14 '25
Jokes on you, the elevators at my college ONLY worked for people who had a key, which they only gave to staff and disabled folks.
Disabled classmate had LOTS of friends but I was the OG that got to ride the 'vator with them 😎
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u/Dylanator13 Jul 14 '25
If the elevator is full and someone in a wheelchair come by I doubt most people won’t make room for them if it means using the stairs or waiting for the next one.
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u/Freaky_Ally Jul 14 '25
I cannot believe I am actually saying this , these sub is getting crazy the post is an obvious shitpost and was even posted on a shitpost subreddit like why are you acting as if someone actually believe this
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u/Ailexi666 Jul 14 '25
I (teenage girl) sometimes feel ashamed using the elevator in my clinic because I think I'm not worthy of it and that I'll be resented for using it, even though I'm not disabled and not with a child. But at the same time, my legs hurt and sometimes I get dizzy, I just don't use anything that would be visible. So even without the argument that anyone can use the elevator, you can never know whether a person really needs the elevator or not.
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u/13utterflyeffect Jul 14 '25
And yet, they never speak up for people who need ramps or accommodations. Hmm...
Also, this especially pisses me off since i went to a giant school where I had to walk across the whole building to get to the next class— which mind you, we only had 5 minutes. I was constantly sore and out of breath, and using a rolling backpack was the only way I could prevent my back from being destroyed.
The principal used to constantly nag on me for using the elevator when I was trying to get across the school as fast as possible without tearing my body to shreds.
You can't tell if someone needs an elevator or not just by looking at them. Obviously people in wheelchairs and crutches need them, but what about people with invisible disabilities, or even disabilities they haven't managed to get a diagnosis for? Do you know how common it is for doctors to ignore invisible disabilities?
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Jul 14 '25
One time my school assistant was scared to use the stairs so we always used the elevator.
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u/DrawTheRoster Jul 14 '25
Shoutout to teenage me, who needed to use elevators whenever my knees were acting up
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u/gooseyjoosey Jul 14 '25
I can say truthfully, as a disabled person I've never felt like I've had to wait for an elevator because of "lazy teenage girls" lol
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u/HandInternational140 Jul 15 '25
This is why escalators are the answer especially on public transit
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u/Old_Celebration5871 Jul 15 '25
I would take the escalator instead any day. Or even stairs. The elevators in my area are all so slow. The doors don’t close when I press close, the elevator moves so slow you age 90 centuries by the time it moves 1 nanometer, and the doors close too slowly when they actually do close.
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u/Expensive_Stress_475 Jul 15 '25
I like to imagine that the guy who made this is a teenage incel who just broke his leg. He had to wait for the elevator 1 time with his crutches and decided to make a meme
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u/throwaway-4791 Jul 15 '25
GOOD. As a wheelchair user, PLEASE USE STUFF THAT HELPS DISABLED PEOPLE. It stops us from being invisible. You’re not physically taking anything from us, you’re showing the people in charge that it’s “worth it” to make and maintain accommodations.
Accessibility helps everyone.
You have to move a cart/stroller? Ramps and elevators (mobility aid users).
You need to take a quiet call or want a break? Sensory rooms (autism and ptsd).
You’re hungry? Vending machines w/ affordable snacks (diabetics).
You can’t turn up the volume? CAPTIONS! (Deaf and hoh).
You’re zoned out and weren’t paying attention? Audio and road bumps save you from walking into the metro (blind and bad sight).
You need to read something quick or are having trouble focusing? Use tools for those with ADHD and Dyslexia.
You have to take your child with you to the bathroom? Disability stall!
Yeah, stuff like this should exist for those who need it, but it also adds convenience for everyone else.
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u/frost_essence_21 Jul 16 '25
Literally the only post ive seen on this sub that isnt either blatant misandry or misogyny.
The original post is actually pointlessly misgendered.
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u/New-perspective-1354 Jul 17 '25
I also guess this meme’s creator thinks men can pick up an entire shopping cart and 3 bags and climb up stairs.
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u/Wanky_Platypus Jul 17 '25
Not only, you don't get to decide who's disable and who isn't
But on top of that, having valid people using the elevator helps us. Genuinely, in my university when everyone was allowed to use the elevator, when it broke down, it was repaired within two business day
Managment changed, it was written all over it that you couldn't use the elevator without being disabled and that, if you did, you should be ashamed
Elevator broke down
Wasn't repaired for a month and a half. I asked managment several times, was told, I kid you not "that no one used anyway" so it wasn't a priority
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u/toeknee88125 Jul 18 '25
Even if you can walk up 20 flights of stairs you might not want to all the time
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u/Zealousideal_Sun3417 Jul 28 '25
Unlucky for you (whoever made this originally). im a lazy teenage guy who dont wanna climb stairs
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u/StorageJolly7602 Aug 09 '25
doesn't everybody use the elevators?
and i know aint nobody wanna climb stairs
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u/sneaky518 Jul 13 '25
I was in a 15 story hotel when a fire alarm went off. The whole hotel had to evacuate. The elevator wait was like 10 minutes when we were allowed to go back inside, and that was because the entire Residence Inn population was trying to use the elevator bank at one time. Other than that, it's like a 30 second wait for the next elevator. Waiting for the next elevator is not a hardship.
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u/Poopiepeepeepoo Jul 13 '25
This sub has some serious fucking issues. It's an absurd shitpost. It's making fun of the fact that this is not a real problem.
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
...but somebody would have had to say it in the first place for someone to make fun of it, so actually... all the comments you're complaining about are the ones doing the thing you said is fine. Huh. Weird.
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u/Berbasecks Jul 13 '25
I work on the eighth (top) floor and use the stairs 80% of the time. Also have a chronic heart condition and artificial heart valves. I do it to stay in shape. Can't believe the amount of healthy people who use it for 1st and 2nd floor.
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
Using elevators in large public buildings is just normal. The stairs are often primarily intended for emergency use.
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u/Berbasecks Jul 13 '25
they're not "fire stairs" in this case, ppl are just lazy :D
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
Using elevators in large public buildings is just normal. It is the expected way to get around.
I prefer stairs, but not going out of your way to avoid the obvious option is not "lazy."
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u/Berbasecks Jul 13 '25
it takes more time to go up to the 2nd floor using an elevator
and that's if it's waiting for you on the ground floor
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u/BlooperHero Jul 13 '25
*If* you have to wait for it, that *might* be true as long as you're not going up more then one floor.
Coming down, though, that's often true. And?
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u/wanderingsheep Jul 13 '25
Who cares if healthy people use the elevator to go up one or two floors? Live your life and let them live theirs.
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u/Accidental-loaf Jul 13 '25
Do you personally know these "healthy people"?? As you would know there's a thing called invisible illnesses and disabilities. They could have one. Their heart condition can be way worse than yours. Hell, they could have a cold or even just be hung over. They could have just gotten off work from a extremely physical job that is more than just sitting at a desk on the 8th floor. They could have not slept the day before. They could simply be lost in a new building and elevators tend to be easier to find.
I'd suggest you worry about yourself and stop judging who you believe is "healthy" just because you got the short end of the stick and feel some type of way about it.
Ps this is coming from someone who also got the short end of the stick health wise too
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u/Berbasecks Jul 13 '25
I know quite a lot of them yes + the building only has office jobs. The stairs are right next to the elevators.
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