Detroit rapper Dank Demoss flipped discrimination into empowerment. 🚐✨ After suing Lyft for denying her a ride, she settled, bought her own custom van, and now rolls with a personal chauffeur. Talk about turning pain into power! 💪 #DankDemoss #LyftLawsuit
seriously, shoutout to op of this post (do not send hate or harassment) for writing it because it summarizes all my thoughts on the matter.. and makes a lot of technical points i wouldn't have thought of.
everyone is downvoting op to shit and spewing internalized fatphobia in the comments so beware if you go to read/support op. put under a read more bc it's long.
Dank Demoss did nothing wrong
For those of you lucky enough to not have heard about the drama following the poor girl around, Dank DeMoss, also called Big Dank, is a rapper, who is currently a lot more famous for the fact that she's suing a Lyft driver for discrimination after he claimed she was "too big to ride", than she is for any of her work(Which is unfortunate, because her work is really good and deserves more credit).
Honestly, I was *expecting* to see fatphobia, I was *expecting* to see people saying it's her fault, but I was also expecting her to get at least like, a *little bit* of support, and it seems like *literally everywhere I look* has been backlash for her existing as a plus size woman and trying to ride a Lyft. The general consensus on the internet seems to be that she should have ordered a larger ride, and she's "ruining that driver's life because she won't admit she needs to lose weight". *How universally* that opinion seemed to be held by a lot of people was incredibly jarring and made me feel gross. So let's break down why the claims that it's her fault are wrong, both morally, and *mathematically.*
**Morally:** It is never anyone's place to dictate over others who "should" or "needs to" lose weight. I'm not going to discuss or debate what sizes can or can't be healthy, because I know if I say anything about HAES, supportive or against, it's going to spark a big stupid argument in the comments section. What I am going to say instead is this: It's not your place to make assumptions about someone's health or tell them what you think they need to do. Even if we're going with the argument that it would be "better" for her to lose weight, and if she isn't taking care of her health, someone should not be required to drastically change their lifestyle in order to reshape their body for you. Even if it's not perfect health wise, someone may want to live their life comfortably with a lifestyle that works comfortably for them, not spend all the time trying to adjust it into an "ideal" healthy lifestyle when that doesn't work for them comfortably. Different people have different needs, different priorities, so even if you think it would be better for someone to lose weight, it's not your place to dictate that, and it's certainly not anyone's place to tell anyone that an issue they face due to size discrimination is their "fault".
**Mathematically:** She *is* larger than most plus size women, it feels weird making guesses about people's weights but we need to do math, I'm going to say she's like, probably 500lbs, but let's even give the Lyft driver the benefit of the doubt, let's do the math with 600 even though DeMoss is *not* 600lbs, and do some calculations about the driver's concerns about the "tires".
The car has 4 tires, and that weight *should* distribute fairly evenly around them, so, once again, *even* using numbers that are *really* less accurate to *give the Lyft driver the benefit of the doubt*, roughly 150lbs per tire. Since weight distribution won't be completely even as more weight will be on the back tires, we could say if there's a 66/33 F/R weight distribution, that the rear tires are under 200lbs each, and the fronts 100.
**So there's a few ways to take this into perspective and look at this, a few different things I should point out**
1: That's not any more weight per tire than if smaller passengers filled every seat of the car. The weight increased per tire is probably like, the average American is like, 180lbs or something, statistically.
2: An average person can kick with about **1000lbs** of force. The tires wouldn't explode if a person kicked them, and if I *could* kick the tire and make it *fucking explode,* that car is not road worthy.
3: In track use, which the car should be able to survive without falling apart even if it is not made for it, in order to be road worthy, an average car can generate 0.75 to 0.95 gs of force in a turn, which will distribute the car's weight *and* the cornering forces onto the outside wheels. A car is ~3000lbs. A car should be able to handle aggressive driving, pot holes, etc, without a blowout, in order to be roadworthy.
4: As for any concerns about the interior, we don't even need to do math, most cars have a rear bench seat and being larger also means you distribute your weight across more area, meaning the car can't tell the difference between one larger person vs 2 smaller people sitting next to each other. there's literally no way she can damage the interior of the car.
In short: Car tires regularly experience thousands of pounds of force and should be able to withstand the weight of the car under bumps and aggressive driving, and adding this much weight to the car should not cause an issue for that, else it is not road worthy.
So, with this, we can conclude that Demoss did not do anything wrong, and the claim that she's "Suing someone else over things that are her fault" is utter bullshit made up by incel neckbeards on the internet to justify why they think size discrimination is someone's fault, because any time a woman doesn't meet their gooner brained idea of what women "should" look and be like, it's something wrong with her. The "it's your fault, treating you like shit for being fat isn't discrimination because you *could* try to change your entire life to *maybe* make a gradual change to your body, and you should be obligated to" mentality is honestly kind of shocking and disgusting just *how pervasive* it is. Like I expected to see that mentality some but how *common place* it is is gross. This mentality seems to almost entirely come from men too. The internet has quite literally turned the *average man*(At least average among ones with major online presence) into an incel gooner, and these are the people trying to dictate what the "standard" should be. Demoss did nothing wrong.
Sorry, I just, had to make a rant about this *somewhere* because of just how *gross* the internet is towards a rapper whom I actually like, pissed me the fuck off and made me feel gross.
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