- Joined
- Feb 25, 2021
...the cane is the fedora of mobility aids. Got it.So we all know the type of pooner who's image of a man is some soft and unthreatening lil dood straight from muh japanese dojinshis, right?
I think the cane & unable stuff is all more posturing to create this performance of larping as a yaoi character. It's the same reason girls love that nose tube chick from The Fault in Our Stars, but Frankensteined onto the hot dude character just to double down on the retardation.
But it makes sense. You look at a (slim, well-dressed, fictional) character who looks super cool with a cane, and hey, you can buy a cane too; perfect! It's exactly the same as a neckbeard looking at Bogart professionally-lit in a sharp hat and coat, and buying an XXL trenchcoat and fedora himself, because clearly that's what did it.
I think it's multiple causes, though. Looking cool (as above), as well as a physical symbol of "invisible disability," because even the munchies know that if you actually have something visible you'll get more credit than if you post about your "spoons," and that sunflower lanyards are silly and wrist braces start to smell like a belly button after a week.
I have an elderly relative with terrible knees who has started taking a cane in public. They don't actually need a cane, but walking is painful and stairs aren't happening, and being grey-haired and cane-holding means people make the correct assumptions and e.g. usher them to the handicapped exit from the concert hall. So in this case it's subbing for the same conversation over and over or a laminated badge that says "I'm bad at walking lol." Munchie and/or pooner cane ladies have probably had this same thought process, absent the actual need for accommodation.