Aubrey Gordon
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1,125 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Aubrey Gordon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rather than being a compatriot stuck in the same cramped, uncomfortable position as everyone else, I become a scapegoat for all their frustration. In moments like those, it's hard to get angry with a corporation, its executives, and industrial designers. It's much easier to get angry with the fat person who dared to fly.
Not only are we going to make these seats small enough that they don't fit most people, but we're actually going to shrink them over time under pressure from airlines. Right. In between, I think it was 2009 and 2019, the seat width on U.S. airplanes decreased by about 10 percent. That's just within 10 years.
I would aim for planes that are designed with the principles of universal design in mind. Because I'll tell you what, planes are not very accessible for fat people one bit. They're also not super accessible for parents with little kids. They're also not super accessible for disabled people, for wheelchair users or anybody using mobility aids, right?
So if instead of thinking, the only people really designing for here are short and thin people, What if we thought about, here's the breadth of human bodies that exist. What's the vehicle that we could make that would carry the most of those human bodies, right? The widest range of those human bodies. That, to me, would feel like a huge win.
To have us designing planes for people rather than insisting that people fit planes.
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