Comments on: What’s Accessible To You? http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/ In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Helen Huntingdon http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-272553 Helen Huntingdon Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:48:10 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-272553 <i>If each of us were to personalize the experience by thinking of the different ways in which we are forced to “rise above”, perhaps we would be less likely to invoke privilege upon another.</i> When I did a brief stint on crutches, I noticed it was invariably the most frail-looking of the elderly who would rush to hold doors for me, offer to carry things, block traffic for me to cross. They knew what it was like. I never forgot the lesson, and have learned how to subtly interpose myself between the elderly and frail and those who might rush them or crowd them. I found out what it's like. If each of us were to personalize the experience by thinking of the different ways in which we are forced to “rise above”, perhaps we would be less likely to invoke privilege upon another.

When I did a brief stint on crutches, I noticed it was invariably the most frail-looking of the elderly who would rush to hold doors for me, offer to carry things, block traffic for me to cross. They knew what it was like.

I never forgot the lesson, and have learned how to subtly interpose myself between the elderly and frail and those who might rush them or crowd them. I found out what it’s like.

]]> By: peanutbutter http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271999 peanutbutter Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:32:09 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271999 I've run across the fire alarm issue before (flashing light necessary for deaf triggering epilepsy in others). It is my understanding that it is possible to design a different strobe length/flash rate that isn't triggering. It is a problem, though (not just this, I mean; there are other examples where solutions to different disabilities conflict). I’ve run across the fire alarm issue before (flashing light necessary for deaf triggering epilepsy in others). It is my understanding that it is possible to design a different strobe length/flash rate that isn’t triggering. It is a problem, though (not just this, I mean; there are other examples where solutions to different disabilities conflict).

]]> By: Lyndsay http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271638 Lyndsay Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:09:33 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271638 When I was on exchange in Sweden the walk lights all made a constant ticking noise when they said walk. That made me realize that here (Canada) they don't. If you hold down the button for a few seconds, they are supposed to make a loud chirping noise when they say walk but I think it doesn't always work. Also, I don't understand why they didn't make all the subway stations here accessible if they made some of them accessible. I have seen people carry strollers down the stairs or escalator but it looks like a two person job. Elevators would be great even for people carrying heavy things. I think way more could be done to make transit accessible. When I was on exchange in Sweden the walk lights all made a constant ticking noise when they said walk. That made me realize that here (Canada) they don’t. If you hold down the button for a few seconds, they are supposed to make a loud chirping noise when they say walk but I think it doesn’t always work.

Also, I don’t understand why they didn’t make all the subway stations here accessible if they made some of them accessible. I have seen people carry strollers down the stairs or escalator but it looks like a two person job. Elevators would be great even for people carrying heavy things. I think way more could be done to make transit accessible.

]]> By: Alara Rogers http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271630 Alara Rogers Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:35:25 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271630 When I was pushing a stroller everywhere, I became very aware of what barriers exist for people in wheelchairs, because anywhere that a wheelchair can't go, a stroller can't go either. Sometimes very kind people will help you lift your stroller down a few stairs (it was a big, heavy, SUV of strollers, capable of off-sidewalking down a grassy hill, but not so good at being carried.) I was very aware of the fact that a person in a wheelchair would probably not be so fortunate (even a heavy stroller with a 20-lb baby in it being much lighter than a wheelchair with a 120-lb human or heavier). The thing that got me was -- people in wheelchairs not so common, ableism, okay, I get why no one is putting in accommodations, but nearly everyone who has a child pushes a stroller at some point and that's the majority of the population. Why are we doing something that negatively impacts some of the people all of the time, and most of the people some of the time? Why don't soccer moms get more pissed off at having to lug their stroller up the stairs? I have since figured out that it is because men are rarely the ones pushing the stroller, and they're the ones who design most things. Women who are *actively* stroller-pushing are rare, and people forget what doesn't inconvenience them this very minute, so most women don't think of it either, even if they pushed a stroller ten years ago. So we end up with a situation where the disabled people are told to suck it up and deal with not being able to get into the restaurant or go to the bathroom or whatever, and the moms with strollers are also excluded, because it is culturally accepted to exclude mothers with small children from lots of things anyway, and the mothers put up with it because eventually they no longer have small children. Even if the problem affects most of the people some of the time, the fact that most of them get over it means that the number of people who are willing to advocate for change is still small. My husband's disability is legal blindness. Accessibility, for him, is printed menus he can read with his magnifying glass, instead of a marquee behind the counter that he can't make out. It's train stations that connect to light rail or subway lines, so he can get from his house to a train station without having to be driven. It's taxi service that actually shows up on time. It's workplaces that are in big cities with public transportation, not out in office parks in the suburbs where, even if I drive him there, he can't get lunch because there is nowhere within walking distance to buy lunch. It's not printing the printed menus in elaborate cursive fonts. It's the companies he works for giving him an appropriately large monitor. My husband is privileged -- he is not fully blind, so he can use a computer with magnification on or a large monitor, and so he makes very good money as a computer programmer. But he is trapped making hour and a half commutes to DC because a short commute like mine to the suburbs of Baltimore is impossible for him unless he was lucky enough to get an assignment near where I work, and good money or no we can't afford to live closer to DC, and Baltimore doesn't itself have much IT work (and its public transportation is crap, so the only place he could work even in our home city is downtown.) He can afford to buy a really large television so he can actually see the screen, where many of the legally blind cannot. He can afford the 300 dollar eyeglasses he needs two pairs of every couple of years (and, it being a congenital condition, we can afford to drop 1000 dollars on our little son's eyeglasses every year, as our five year old breaks and loses his utterly necessary and expensive eyeglasses, often.) I'm always aware that other people with legal blindness aren't nearly so lucky. And I wonder what's going to happen to the US when the baby boom all start getting macular degeneration. Because we went so far out of our way to make sure everyone would need a car, for largely racist and classist reasons, and now we're going to have huge numbers of seniors trapped in their homes or driving when they can't really see as a result. When I was pushing a stroller everywhere, I became very aware of what barriers exist for people in wheelchairs, because anywhere that a wheelchair can’t go, a stroller can’t go either. Sometimes very kind people will help you lift your stroller down a few stairs (it was a big, heavy, SUV of strollers, capable of off-sidewalking down a grassy hill, but not so good at being carried.) I was very aware of the fact that a person in a wheelchair would probably not be so fortunate (even a heavy stroller with a 20-lb baby in it being much lighter than a wheelchair with a 120-lb human or heavier).

The thing that got me was — people in wheelchairs not so common, ableism, okay, I get why no one is putting in accommodations, but nearly everyone who has a child pushes a stroller at some point and that’s the majority of the population. Why are we doing something that negatively impacts some of the people all of the time, and most of the people some of the time? Why don’t soccer moms get more pissed off at having to lug their stroller up the stairs?

I have since figured out that it is because men are rarely the ones pushing the stroller, and they’re the ones who design most things. Women who are *actively* stroller-pushing are rare, and people forget what doesn’t inconvenience them this very minute, so most women don’t think of it either, even if they pushed a stroller ten years ago. So we end up with a situation where the disabled people are told to suck it up and deal with not being able to get into the restaurant or go to the bathroom or whatever, and the moms with strollers are also excluded, because it is culturally accepted to exclude mothers with small children from lots of things anyway, and the mothers put up with it because eventually they no longer have small children. Even if the problem affects most of the people some of the time, the fact that most of them get over it means that the number of people who are willing to advocate for change is still small.

My husband’s disability is legal blindness. Accessibility, for him, is printed menus he can read with his magnifying glass, instead of a marquee behind the counter that he can’t make out. It’s train stations that connect to light rail or subway lines, so he can get from his house to a train station without having to be driven. It’s taxi service that actually shows up on time. It’s workplaces that are in big cities with public transportation, not out in office parks in the suburbs where, even if I drive him there, he can’t get lunch because there is nowhere within walking distance to buy lunch. It’s not printing the printed menus in elaborate cursive fonts. It’s the companies he works for giving him an appropriately large monitor.

My husband is privileged — he is not fully blind, so he can use a computer with magnification on or a large monitor, and so he makes very good money as a computer programmer. But he is trapped making hour and a half commutes to DC because a short commute like mine to the suburbs of Baltimore is impossible for him unless he was lucky enough to get an assignment near where I work, and good money or no we can’t afford to live closer to DC, and Baltimore doesn’t itself have much IT work (and its public transportation is crap, so the only place he could work even in our home city is downtown.) He can afford to buy a really large television so he can actually see the screen, where many of the legally blind cannot. He can afford the 300 dollar eyeglasses he needs two pairs of every couple of years (and, it being a congenital condition, we can afford to drop 1000 dollars on our little son’s eyeglasses every year, as our five year old breaks and loses his utterly necessary and expensive eyeglasses, often.) I’m always aware that other people with legal blindness aren’t nearly so lucky. And I wonder what’s going to happen to the US when the baby boom all start getting macular degeneration. Because we went so far out of our way to make sure everyone would need a car, for largely racist and classist reasons, and now we’re going to have huge numbers of seniors trapped in their homes or driving when they can’t really see as a result.

]]> By: Philosimphy http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271611 Philosimphy Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:12:06 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271611 The worst fight I ever had with my boyfriend - I mean it was bad, doughnuts were thrown - was about electric cars making sound so that blind people could know they were there. Jeez louis what that a crazy night. He said blind people should carry a sensor or something that would vibrate when an electric car approached, with the corresponding sensor sender in the actual cars. Because, he said, people who can see shouldn't be bothered by any sort of sound. The selfishness of it all blew my mind. It's not like the sound an electric car made would have to even be loud enough to bother sighted folks. It went on and on - he brought up people who were blind AND deaf, and I said, well then that's a good reason for a vibrating sensor I guess... But I finally shut him up by pointing out that it's not fair, or right, or whatever to force certain people to rely on fallible technology in order to make life a tiny bit less annoying to other people. Technology fails, and this is a situation where the failure of technology could get someone injured or killed, specifically because they can't see, and just because you don't want to hear an engine whirring when you're driving slower speeds. It's one thing to have a problem with being required to change something already built, it's still selfish but at least it's somewhat understandable, but with electric cars it's not as if there is a lot of massive, costly retrofitting to undertake. If you lose a sense (sight), you should get to choose which other sense you want to rely on instead, and it can vary depending on the situation. If I can't SEE a car, my next choice is to HEAR a car, my third choice is to FEEL a sensor, and even then if the batteries are dead, you might be too. (full disclosure: I am not blind) The worst fight I ever had with my boyfriend – I mean it was bad, doughnuts were thrown – was about electric cars making sound so that blind people could know they were there. Jeez louis what that a crazy night. He said blind people should carry a sensor or something that would vibrate when an electric car approached, with the corresponding sensor sender in the actual cars. Because, he said, people who can see shouldn’t be bothered by any sort of sound.

The selfishness of it all blew my mind. It’s not like the sound an electric car made would have to even be loud enough to bother sighted folks. It went on and on – he brought up people who were blind AND deaf, and I said, well then that’s a good reason for a vibrating sensor I guess…

But I finally shut him up by pointing out that it’s not fair, or right, or whatever to force certain people to rely on fallible technology in order to make life a tiny bit less annoying to other people. Technology fails, and this is a situation where the failure of technology could get someone injured or killed, specifically because they can’t see, and just because you don’t want to hear an engine whirring when you’re driving slower speeds. It’s one thing to have a problem with being required to change something already built, it’s still selfish but at least it’s somewhat understandable, but with electric cars it’s not as if there is a lot of massive, costly retrofitting to undertake.

If you lose a sense (sight), you should get to choose which other sense you want to rely on instead, and it can vary depending on the situation. If I can’t SEE a car, my next choice is to HEAR a car, my third choice is to FEEL a sensor, and even then if the batteries are dead, you might be too.

(full disclosure: I am not blind)

]]> By: William http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271574 William Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:48:00 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271574 Just moving around is difficult for me, but thats complicated by the fact that I don't look disabled. I've got a non-verbal learning disability that manifests primarily in very poor spacial relations skills, spacial reasoning, and visual scanning (noticing that chair at the edge of your vision), coupled with a host of little problems that tend to cluster with the kind of very mild cerebral palsy I have and lead issues with gait and balance. What all of that means is that, at any given time, I've only a vague idea of where my body is in relation to objects that I'm aware of and a great deal of my environment simply doesn't register unless I'm paying very close attention. This is particularly bad because I have a lot of body (6'1", 270 pounds, big shoulders) and my problems with gait and balance mean that I have to move in such a way as to take advantage of momentum. One of the things I've figured out is that people put shit everywhere, although I honestly can't comprehend how they don't walk into things constantly. Me? I walk into door frames, trip over chairs, clip garbage cans, roll my ankle because of uneven ground no one else had a problem with, and generally stumble through my day like a bruised gorilla stuck in a pinball machine. As far as disability goes, its a minor problem (at least I can still get around), but hardly a day goes by when I'm not reminded that the world just isn't meant for me and that the basic design of the environment will always be hostile. Just moving around is difficult for me, but thats complicated by the fact that I don’t look disabled. I’ve got a non-verbal learning disability that manifests primarily in very poor spacial relations skills, spacial reasoning, and visual scanning (noticing that chair at the edge of your vision), coupled with a host of little problems that tend to cluster with the kind of very mild cerebral palsy I have and lead issues with gait and balance. What all of that means is that, at any given time, I’ve only a vague idea of where my body is in relation to objects that I’m aware of and a great deal of my environment simply doesn’t register unless I’m paying very close attention. This is particularly bad because I have a lot of body (6’1″, 270 pounds, big shoulders) and my problems with gait and balance mean that I have to move in such a way as to take advantage of momentum.

One of the things I’ve figured out is that people put shit everywhere, although I honestly can’t comprehend how they don’t walk into things constantly. Me? I walk into door frames, trip over chairs, clip garbage cans, roll my ankle because of uneven ground no one else had a problem with, and generally stumble through my day like a bruised gorilla stuck in a pinball machine. As far as disability goes, its a minor problem (at least I can still get around), but hardly a day goes by when I’m not reminded that the world just isn’t meant for me and that the basic design of the environment will always be hostile.

]]> By: A.W. http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271522 A.W. Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271522 ...and while I'm on the subject of buses, our maps for it suck. First, they're not maps - they just list departure (and some arrival) times, no colored roadways and listed stops to count, so you can't even guess if you're around the right area. The schedule's in tiny, tiny font, black on white and black on grey, alternating. This doesn't help with dylexia, dyspraxia or complicated vision. Not only is it a pain in the ass to try to decipher, turns out they don't list all the places the buses actually - go -. There's supposed to be a way to tell buses apart, too, but according to the transit worker I asked one day, they said "just look at the side of the bus!" ...yeah, right. Looking at the side of the bus doesn't do a damn thing. I can make out the giant hand, but beyond that, trying to figure out which bus is which is useless. And they all have a giant hand, all the buses look the same so you can't even try and remember idiosynchronicities, like "Well, I need the snub nosed bus...". Especially since they don't number the buses in their damnable time schedules. There might be a number on the bus, but I haven't been able to pick it out amidst all the colors. They don't call out stops, either. So if someone's supposed to get off somewhere they haven't been before out of town (or if they can't see where they're currently at), we're screwed. …and while I’m on the subject of buses, our maps for it suck. First, they’re not maps – they just list departure (and some arrival) times, no colored roadways and listed stops to count, so you can’t even guess if you’re around the right area. The schedule’s in tiny, tiny font, black on white and black on grey, alternating. This doesn’t help with dylexia, dyspraxia or complicated vision. Not only is it a pain in the ass to try to decipher, turns out they don’t list all the places the buses actually – go -. There’s supposed to be a way to tell buses apart, too, but according to the transit worker I asked one day, they said “just look at the side of the bus!” …yeah, right. Looking at the side of the bus doesn’t do a damn thing. I can make out the giant hand, but beyond that, trying to figure out which bus is which is useless. And they all have a giant hand, all the buses look the same so you can’t even try and remember idiosynchronicities, like “Well, I need the snub nosed bus…”. Especially since they don’t number the buses in their damnable time schedules. There might be a number on the bus, but I haven’t been able to pick it out amidst all the colors. They don’t call out stops, either. So if someone’s supposed to get off somewhere they haven’t been before out of town (or if they can’t see where they’re currently at), we’re screwed.

]]> By: Dungeon Keeper http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271487 Dungeon Keeper Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:09:03 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271487 I have a non verbal learning disability which means in short that if the action I need to do isn't verbal, I'm fucked. It was a fight to get semi-literate. Reading, math, grammar, coordination, spacial reasoning (ever have left and right switch places on yah? WHILE DRIVING? Good times!), and anything non-verbal is gonna be a fight. I also have to repeat things daily or I forgot how to do them. I can't build on what I already learned because I've forgotten that by the time the next step has come up. Everything runs through long term rote memory because short term isn't working. If I'm not given explicate, step-by-step, all-inclusive instructions, I won't get it right. And a computer needs all of the above with some extra humiliating, panic-inducing shaming added. I can't use tills, security alarms, PCs, websites, apply-on-line, drop and drag, read spreadsheet screens (I need a ruler to hold down the words and numbers. Literally. Its so fun having something change lines, reverse order or switch letters on you. Reading IS an adventure!) or anything that a literate person does without thinking. (and since it took me more than an hour to post this, don't point out 'but ur on the internet....'. Looking at lolcats doesn't make someone computer literate anymore than singing the ABC song counts as being able to read at an adult level) I used to hope to be an artist until Adobe suite happened. Graphic design or traditional doesn't make a difference because its all gotta be put on a disk or website or flashdrive or else it stays shoved under the bed with all the other piles of paper no one will every see. Now I don't make art because why bother if you need to start over in Illustrator, get it Deviant Art ( I tried, it won't work, no one knows why) and someone with a more expensive system and a privileged working brain will make more faster, cheaper, better. So I'm back in school for on last chance and the acknowledgment of my disability and everyone's solution is : MORE COMPUTERS!!!! Yes, because with no instructions, no tutoring, no idea how these things work will help me learn new material as I am already struggling to just learn at all. And did I mention they want me to buy a new machine, truck loads of software and 'just lay around with it' until it somehow magically bounds with me and cures my broken brain with its Matrix digital awesomeness. Worse yet, everything is going online. Books, movies, music, social networks, job searches, applications, shopping and I can't do any of it. Nothing I've done has helped. I've taken classes (just three months ago I took a basic computer course. I passed but know I remember nothing from it), tried books, on-line tutorials, tutoring (yah, explain to someone who loves computers why your screaming and crying because you can't double click. Again.) And everyone thinks its awesome. To me, its like being in a wheelchair and watching people build more stairs to the places and things I need to reach, then tell me how amazing stairs are and how everyone should love stairs for all the good they do us. Digital is NEVER accessible to me. And its what everything on the planet is becoming. I have a non verbal learning disability which means in short that if the action I need to do isn’t verbal, I’m fucked. It was a fight to get semi-literate. Reading, math, grammar, coordination, spacial reasoning (ever have left and right switch places on yah? WHILE DRIVING? Good times!), and anything non-verbal is gonna be a fight. I also have to repeat things daily or I forgot how to do them. I can’t build on what I already learned because I’ve forgotten that by the time the next step has come up. Everything runs through long term rote memory because short term isn’t working. If I’m not given explicate, step-by-step, all-inclusive instructions, I won’t get it right. And a computer needs all of the above with some extra humiliating, panic-inducing shaming added. I can’t use tills, security alarms, PCs, websites, apply-on-line, drop and drag, read spreadsheet screens (I need a ruler to hold down the words and numbers. Literally. Its so fun having something change lines, reverse order or switch letters on you. Reading IS an adventure!) or anything that a literate person does without thinking. (and since it took me more than an hour to post this, don’t point out ‘but ur on the internet….’. Looking at lolcats doesn’t make someone computer literate anymore than singing the ABC song counts as being able to read at an adult level)

I used to hope to be an artist until Adobe suite happened. Graphic design or traditional doesn’t make a difference because its all gotta be put on a disk or website or flashdrive or else it stays shoved under the bed with all the other piles of paper no one will every see. Now I don’t make art because why bother if you need to start over in Illustrator, get it Deviant Art ( I tried, it won’t work, no one knows why) and someone with a more expensive system and a privileged working brain will make more faster, cheaper, better.

So I’m back in school for on last chance and the acknowledgment of my disability and everyone’s solution is : MORE COMPUTERS!!!! Yes, because with no instructions, no tutoring, no idea how these things work will help me learn new material as I am already struggling to just learn at all. And did I mention they want me to buy a new machine, truck loads of software and ‘just lay around with it’ until it somehow magically bounds with me and cures my broken brain with its Matrix digital awesomeness.

Worse yet, everything is going online. Books, movies, music, social networks, job searches, applications, shopping and I can’t do any of it. Nothing I’ve done has helped. I’ve taken classes (just three months ago I took a basic computer course. I passed but know I remember nothing from it), tried books, on-line tutorials, tutoring (yah, explain to someone who loves computers why your screaming and crying because you can’t double click. Again.) And everyone thinks its awesome. To me, its like being in a wheelchair and watching people build more stairs to the places and things I need to reach, then tell me how amazing stairs are and how everyone should love stairs for all the good they do us. Digital is NEVER accessible to me. And its what everything on the planet is becoming.

]]> By: Anna http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271459 Anna Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:07 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271459 I wonder (not knowing anything about such things) if it would be better for a fie alarm to turn the lights in a room red. The change in colour of the lighting would alert people who can't hear, but I think the lack of flashing would mean less risks for people with epilepsy. I wonder (not knowing anything about such things) if it would be better for a fie alarm to turn the lights in a room red. The change in colour of the lighting would alert people who can’t hear, but I think the lack of flashing would mean less risks for people with epilepsy.

]]> By: preying mantis http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/28/what%e2%80%99s-accessible-to-you/#comment-271454 preying mantis Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:29:33 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=15704#comment-271454 "I lived on campus as an undergraduate, and when the school installed a new fire alarm system that included flashing lights, I was told that they would have someone “come check on me” whenever the alarm went off." That it didn't strike anyone as more reasonable to install a light shield speaks volumes. We had a period of about a year here about 8 years ago when the city, in its infinite wisdom, decided that new traffic lights or replacements to old traffic lights would be a model that included a strobe light in the red bulb. When the light turned red, you'd get a bright white flash every 15 seconds. The given reason was that it was an attention-grabber, so you'd have fewer people running reds "on accident." “I lived on campus as an undergraduate, and when the school installed a new fire alarm system that included flashing lights, I was told that they would have someone “come check on me” whenever the alarm went off.”

That it didn’t strike anyone as more reasonable to install a light shield speaks volumes.

We had a period of about a year here about 8 years ago when the city, in its infinite wisdom, decided that new traffic lights or replacements to old traffic lights would be a model that included a strobe light in the red bulb. When the light turned red, you’d get a bright white flash every 15 seconds. The given reason was that it was an attention-grabber, so you’d have fewer people running reds “on accident.”

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