Share the stoke on your car with Cycling Stick Family stickers

Ugh. My only salvation is that kids ask their parents to put these on, and hey, I’d probably give in too (but no bumper stickers you little brats!!!). But sadly I think the parents like it too.

I can get these from Aliexpress for roughly a dollar a piece, shipped from china.

@Mike

No reason for them to delete….you speak the truth.

Stick figure stickers conjure up a deep rooted urge to ram the offending vehicle with my vehicle. Luckily, we are a civilized culture (somewhat) and I am able to reason with myself.

5 years too late?

Not to share the stoke…

The first reaction is that they’re insipid, dorky, saccharine and narcissistic, evidence that thanks to social media we think strangers actually care about the terrible ordinariness of our lives, an in your face statement about ourselves, our lives and our families, and we think that everything we do is important.

However, I think that it’s an anxious claim to belonging, a desire to belong to a vision of feminine success and to a mythical white middle ‘Merica populated by happy, heterosexual nuclear families. This is further reinforced by the key purchasing demographic being a middle-aged woman trying to be a super mom.

The stickers are a fantasy of unity in a context of family disengagement caused by work and schooling pressures. They’re a fantasy of health (physical and familial) in a world of rising obesity rates caused partly by that big SUV you’ve stuck those stickers on.

After all that heavy handed lecturing did anyone else notice that they have the traffic side foot not the curb side foot out? They should be banned as they’re promoting dangerous stationariness!

@ loki – they’re not in traffic. they’re drifting. foot out flat out, son.

“Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been.”

Re; Mike and Longbeard. Apparently the experts agree, there’s awfully something gauche about these people. I have a family but don’t feel the need to advertise it, and make it known to local traffic our hobbies. The want the attention so they got it, breeders.

“Psychologist Carolyn Manning says some would say the stickers are symptomatic of a narcissistic, self-absorbed society. The people who put them on their cars, it could be argued, think strangers actually care about the terrible ordinariness of their lives. Academic Karen Brooks argues that it’s about Facebook culture: “We’re really in your face about ourselves, our lives and our families, and we think that everything we do is important.” Ergo, everyone needs to know that Dad likes fishing, Mum has a computer, and the violin-playing kid has a pet dog that died (cf. halo over dog’s head).”

Whatever. Just teach your kids not to stop in the middle of the trail.

Is that dog taking a dump?