Chairs as a support for discrimnation

2 Chairs as a support for discrimination:

In our society, chairs was and still are used as a factor of discrimination, while most people never notice this, people who are targeted see that on an everyday basis.

5 examples

-In most, if not every school in developed countries, tables and chairs are targets of vandals. These privileged students enjoy drawing, writing, engrave tables they use everyday to transmit often violent words. The most common, being insults either targeted to specific students or even teachers, or just there to offend everyone who reads it. We often see words such as “gay” or insults that target the LGBT communities, or is often a question of ethnicity of race. This creates an atmosphere of tension in these schools, and degrade the material that is given to them. Much like social media, where people often insult others and feel protected because of anonymity, these students feel untouchable.

-Still in schools, especially american schools, these types of chairs are used in many classrooms. While many people see a well conceived, and good looking table-chair which takes up less space than the traditional table, others see a chair that wasn’t conceived to be used for them. For left handed people, it is a struggle to even write for a couple minutes with this contraption and feels awkward and unnatural to them. This odds them out, and makes them seem strange compared to the other students who use it with ease. While this may seem futile to right handed people, it is a struggle that usually lasts the time of their education and clearly doesn't create an atmosphere that the students would enjoy to be in.

-Most chairs feel relatively confortable to us, that is because these chairs fit our physical traits as healthy human beings. For people who suffer from obesity doesn’t see chairs the same way. Instead they see them as uncomfortable wooden creations in which they often can’t fit in. As an effort to try to make this discrimination less apparent, and to try to include them in social events, certain football stadiums in the United States have installed these relatively wide chairs. Instead of needing to fit a certain mold, dictated by our society to sit comfortably, we should try to make everyone’s life easier.

-In our society, we are not all lucky enough to be in perfect health, and many people live their life confined to a wheelchair, and often don’t get out of it more then once or twice a day. These people have to live everyday seeing people walk and sit comfortably in different situations. In big social gatherings, like a conference, convention, speech or theatrical representation, people are seated on comfortable seats. While the physically disabled people often struggle to find a spot to “park” their wheelchairs.

-During a very long period of american history, public transports were segregated. In public buses for example, the African American people needed to seat at the back of the bus, and if a white individual was to ask them to stand up and give up their seat, they were to comply. This brings us to Rosa Parks’ heroic act of bravery. When the bus driver asked her to give up her seat to a white man, she refused and was arrested for civil disobedience. This sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, and marked one of the first acts of the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s. This shows the extent of discrimination, and show that we have gotten rid of some of these acts of discrimination, while there is still a lot of to work on.

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