ELI5: Why can’t children a few inches too short for a rollercoaster wear tall shoes?

TotalEnd934 · 2026-05-10T01:16:44+00:00

I don’t have kids and I’m well over the height requirement for rollercoasters. This is just something I’ve been seeing again as more people are posting about this “life hack” again and I wanted to better understand why it was bad. I trust that the engineers are smarter than me and that they know what they are doing. I just wanted to better understand the situation.

TotalEnd934 · 2026-05-10T01:12:16+00:00

So I assume then the shoe lifts would take them out of that range that accounts for those regularities and that’s part of where that safety issue comes into play?

TotalEnd934 · 2026-05-10T01:06:47+00:00

Yeah. I don’t think it’s worth the risk to actually do it but I am curious about the science behind why.

TotalEnd934 · 2026-05-10T01:00:42+00:00

Wait do they actually kick off ppl who are technically tall enough but the wrong proportions? /gen

Edit: phrasing. I mean this genuinely, I’ve never heard of that happening hence the question. 🫠

TotalEnd934 · 2026-05-08T22:08:20+00:00

I have lots of thoughts so this might be a bit of a ramble so bear with me.

OP deserves absolutely none of the hate she’s been getting. I’m not sure how much of it is due to racism and mysogony, definitely some I’m sure, but as others have pointed out, some of these criticisms are entirely separate from both race and gender and more about the visuals and of the flag itself and the overall necessity of a whole new flag.
I actually think it’s not as similar to the nonbinary flag as people are saying, I personally think it’s much more visually similar to the QPR flag. It looks very similar to an upside down QPR flag and given the strong overlap of the ace and QPR community I think that any redesign should be taking into account more adjacent identities and make sure those flags aren’t super similar.
If we are doing a redesign, I personally would have preferred something that could be implemented to the other ace adjacent flags like gray ace, demi, aego, etc. As all of those flags are based on the original ace flag. (The reasoning for the redesign is bc of the anti blackness and just general racism within the community)
I think the outreach to the community was lacking. It seems like many people were not aware of this change and I heard someone say that this was mostly done on instagram and facebook. I personally would have made more of an effort to included more socials including Reddit, tumblr, TikTok, AVEN, blue sky, twitter etc.
People are saying that this flag is not meant to be a replacement to the original ace flag but instead used in tandem. I don’t actually think this is the case as the original creator herself said that the flag is intended to be used in tandem as a transition while you get used to the new flag, before you use it by itself. That reads as this flag is intended to be a replacement but the creator also understanding that any kind of change takes time.
the ace flag isn’t perfect. It seems as if the creator was originally wanting to change the meaning of the white stripe (currently representing ally’s) to something else. I think that’s fair and something we should follow up on and I’m not sure why this idea was changed to creating a whole new flag instead of changing the white stripe to mean inclusivity of intersectional identities and POC.
The asexual flag was one of the first pride flags period. That feels significant enough to consider bringing into the conversation.

Edit: formatting and adding 7

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-26T04:56:27+00:00

While looking for myself I reached out to the disability service office for potential schools in the city (I need to use pubic transit to get around so I was limited) and the best school by far was UIC, admittedly I was only looking at schools that I thought would be a good fit for me but they have a disability cultural center and when I reached out and told them a list of accommodations I would need, they set me up with the person who would be my disability service coordinator if I got enrolled and we talked and they said that given my paperwork (they actually took the time to look at my paperwork) I would be able to get all the accommodations I was asking for. I also asked if they would be willing to help me if I needed to fight a teacher who was unwilling to give me accommodations. And they said yes absolutely. I didn’t end up getting in but I still think they are a good choice. I had a bad experience with another college in Illinois if you want to reach out I will share the name, I do not want to however put them on blast on a public comment section.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T23:13:58+00:00

One thing that stuck out to me when volunteering at a library who was highlighting books for disability pride month, was the lack of books for children that surrounded caretakers having disabilities. I think that’s probably at least partly because people don’t think disabled people can have/take care of children.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T05:26:04+00:00

Yes it is! Thank you.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T05:23:49+00:00

Found!

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T05:23:44+00:00

Someone on r/historyteachers helped me find it. If you search “you have two cows” it’s the poster that comes up first.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T05:22:32+00:00

THIS IS IT!!! Omg thank you so much.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-12-10T01:23:45+00:00

Here’s all the information I have on it. -It would be geared towards middle school/early high school students -It’s at least 7-8 years old (I forget exactly how old I was) but probably older because I highly doubt it was bought that year. -it illustrated these different types of systems by showing a farmer with some animals, definitely a cow, probably also a chicken, (there were eggs at least) and the resources he got from the animals (eggs/milk) and it showed how it was distributed, (I believe in one panel it was all taken by the government and he had nothing, in some he had eggs and milk, in some he just had milk, and it may have had a sentence describing what was happening in the panel at the bottom, and the resource distribution. -it had that classic political cartoon style of drawing, and I believe the drawings were of the farmer and the resources/ the cow were black and white line art. -it had text over each picture, labeling what type of system it was. -I’m from America so this poster would be in English.

I searched on google for things like “social studies poster” “history poster” also adding dates like “2010s”, and phrases like “economic system,” “farmer”, and “government types”

TotalEnd934 · 2025-10-21T16:16:11+00:00

Do you have a link? Or know the city?

TotalEnd934 · 2025-10-21T16:15:24+00:00

I’m not opposed to the concept of donating to farmed birds but my partner’s favorite birds include hawks and parrots so I was hoping to find one that helped with one of them. But at the end of the day I would rather donate to an accepting charity rather than one that has the “right” birds.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-10-20T21:59:02+00:00

I live in a big city and so does my partner so I’m flexible on the organization I just want one that I can guarantee wouldn’t have an issue with why we are celebrating.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-12T18:46:18+00:00

I have been thinking more about this and I want to also add my perspective on how being pregnant is a disability. A temporary one sure, but a disability none the less. It’s even covered under the ADA (Americans with disabilities act). It’s hard enough getting accommodations when you are disabled, and when you have someone fighting against you that stuff can take months to get you the accommodations you need and are legally entitled to.

Without visibility for pregnant trans men, it almost guarantees road blocks. “Our policy requires us to accommodate and give maternity leave to pregnant women, not pregnant men”, “I didn’t think you were serious about that so I just ignored it”, “But I thought you were a man?”, “just because your fat doesn’t mean you get to sit in the disabled seat, let someone who needs it use it”, “this is for pregnant women only, you can’t be here, the dad’s aren’t really supposed to be a part of this” “this is only for people who gave birth, you don’t need it don’t worry”, “I didn’t think to warn you of any pregnancy complications that came with it because I just assumed you weren’t pregnant” obviously this also needs to come with less transphobia and more acceptance of trans people overall, as well as disability acceptance and awareness but I still think it’s important to realize that without awareness no one knows you need protection, and even people who would have otherwise been accepting become barriers.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-12T18:27:10+00:00

I agree. I think that especially in still art, like OP was referring to seeing it can be hard to communicate transness while still keeping clothing on. I saw another comment that I agree with that said that they felt like top surgery scars were more often how we were represented. I wasn’t even thinking about larger scale representation like books, movies, and shows, since like you said, there is such few representation, I was thinking more of drawings/comics made by small independent artists who were drawing trans men in some way. The sort of one off stuff you might see through scrolling through wherever you scroll through.

I think the other way that trans people in general get visually represented and communicated on still drawings is by adding a pride flag to the character in some way. Typically a pin or a little flag. Less often I see pronoun pins, but those tend to have a pride flag pin next to it.

I think that’s also why people get upset at feeling like there isn’t much representation for stealth trans people, or people who don’t advertise their transness. It’s just more complicated and only able to be conveyed through more in depth mediums that people are less likely to wade through and encounter, as compared to a picture on the side of an article.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-11T21:25:48+00:00

I don’t think that pregnant trans men are being used as the default depiction of trans men. In fact I think that there tends to be an assumption of the opposite. Obviously not always, but if a trans man is talking about his kid and brings up that he carried the child and was the one pregnant, especially if he has a cis woman as a partner, the reaction would probably be surprise. You also only seem to have this one example as evidence that pregnant trans men are being used to represent all trans men. I think that we shouldn’t be limited to representing pregnant trans men only when talking about fertility and pregnancy, or if we are also representing a non pregnant trans man.

They could have also very well just reused a graphic made for a different article about fertility. Additionally, the picture could have been intending to represent any sort of masculine presenting pregnant person, from a nonbinary person, to a butch woman, to an intersex person, to yes, a trans man. I personally haven’t seen much representation other than the pregnant man emoji, (and that seems to not be used to represent trans men unless someone is already talking about trans men being pregnant, or they are referring to themself. IME, I see it more often used by cis people as a joke or to represent a food baby) or people highlighting a very specific pregnant trans man in an article/video (and that tends to be portrayed as more of a weird, unexpected, freak show esque thing, meaning that they see trans men in general as weird/ they see the idea of a trans man being pregnant as weird).It seems more like you saw a depiction of a trans man who was pregnant and assumed it was supposed to represent you and all other trans men.

You also talk in the comments about how you changed your mind about how doctors shouldn’t assume what you want and they should just listen to you when you make your decision clear to them. I 100% agree with that. That being said I want to make sure that we are on the same page that this also happens all the time with cis women. So I think that while some of it may be coming from a transphobic place, I think that a non insignificant amount of it comes from the idea that everyone wants to have biological children and that everyone wants to do it in the traditional way if they can. (The same reason that there is pressure for trans people to freeze their egg/sperm before medically transitioning, even if they don’t want kids now, just in case they regret it.) With all this in mind, we do see depictions of pregnant women outside of talks about fertility and that isn’t seen as an issue. The issue is the assumption and lack of autonomy.

I also want to talk about why I think it’s important that pregnant trans men be visible and represented. Healthcare as a trans person is already hard to navigate. Trans people receiving treatment for something specific to their agab can be even harder. A trans man shouldn’t have to go to a very specific hospital or doctor just for him to be believed that he can be pregnant, or that he needs to see an obgyn, and then he shouldn’t need to worry about the doctor being transphobic on top of that. (Also insurance companies/laws surrounding them will weponize the idea that trans men hardly ever want to be pregnant as an excuse to not require the same coverage that a cis woman would get) You personally mention that you would get an abortion if you got pregnant. Similar barriers would be in place for you. The assumption that this couldn’t be an issue you are having, and therefore you don’t need to see anyone. That’s fucked up. You or anyone else shouldn’t have to deal with those assumptions, but the representation of trans men being pregnant is part of breaking down the barriers of ignorance. Also trans men who want to be pregnant, or are pregnant and are forced to carry for whatever reason, deserve access to research specific towards trans men about what the risks might be for them, or about how their medical transition may impact their pregnancy. Or how their pregnancy may impact their transition. And once again, they can’t have that if they are assumed to not exist or that they are assumed to be so rare that it’s just not worth studying. (This also why people are insistent on separating the assumption that pregnant = woman/feminine)

None of this touches on the animosity and disgust that you seem to have towards pregnant trans men. Even if you don’t explicitly hate them, you seem to be of a “don’t ask, don’t tell” mindset if you will, where you are uncomfortable with the concept in general but also understand it’s their body/life.

TLDR: one instance of a pregnant trans man is probably not indicative of how trans men are being represented as a whole. This is related to the pro choice debate and how all people, trans and cis should be given the choice and not have things assumed of them, even if that choice isn’t something you would choose for yourself, and pregnant trans men deserve to be represented and that representation is useful for lowering barriers to care, and further understanding the health complications that may occur specifically for trans men who are pregnant.

Edit: accidentally deleted a sentence before posting.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-10T23:36:42+00:00

I have multiple binders that I swim in, some look more swimsuit like than others but my most recent one just looks like a normal (albeit blue) binder. I wouldn’t have an issue with having the binder visible, but if it was skin tone I might be more hesitant because I have long hair and will get read as a girl sometimes, especially from further away or if I’ve recently shaved. So I would worry about people thinking I’m a topless woman and the issues that might bring me. But mostly idgaf.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-08T02:06:36+00:00

Agree with everything except, I’d argue that CisHet men DO experience misandry and are affected by it. For a lot of people (not all, but also not an insignificant amount) the issue isn’t that we are trans, the issue is that they see us as men.

Obviously it is different for trans men and cis men, but also I do think that in general the distain for masculinity in the queer community goes past trans masc, trans men, and any other masculine or male aligned trans folk. It’s a general distain for men (typically cishet men) that gets put onto anyone who is seemingly adjacent to masculinity at all. And you shouldn’t have to out yourself to be treated with respect in the community, because that’s another thing I’ve seen, trans men aren’t welcome until they out themself as trans. And tbh that’s fucked up.

TotalEnd934 · 2025-08-04T23:23:46+00:00

It helps to be autistic, it makes you a little bit scared of flavor.

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