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Madonna acknowledged at a recent concert that it was “politically incorrect” to urge a fan using a wheelchair to stand up. Still, the pop icon faces accusations of ableist behavior on social media. The “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin” diva, 65, drew backlash over the weekend after a video reportedly from a Celebration Tour concert at the Kia Forum this month went viral. In the clip, Madge hypes up her audience and encourages them to “take this ride with me.”“What are you doing sitting down over there?,” the singer…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksMusicCelebrity'What are you doing sitting down over there?' Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 11, 2024  •  Last updated 1 hour ago  •  2 minute read Madonna Photo by Charles Sykes /APArticle contentMadonna is catching heat online after she was captured scolding a concertgoer for not standing during a recent show, only to learn the person was in a wheelchair.Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS…

Not so “politically correct.” Madonna mistakenly scolded a fan for not standing at one of her concerts, only to realize that the person was in a wheelchair, sparking outrage online.The 65-year-old Queen of Pop wasn’t too happy after seeing that amongst the cheering crowd during her show on Thursday (March 7) in Los Angeles, USA, a person wasn’t standing up before understanding that the concert-goer was wheelchair-bound.Madonna reportedly performed at the Kia Forum as part of her Celebration Tour when she made the…

Under the new proposal, it would become easier to penalize airlines for mishandling wheelchairs, the Transportation Department said. Under the new proposal, it would become easier to penalize airlines for mishandling wheelchairs, the Transportation Department said. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…

Ideally, a trip to the grocery store should be uneventful. If the shop has everything you need, you can get in and out without waiting in a long line and you’re on your way home before you know it, that’s a successful trip. But unfortunately, we never know what kinds of people we’ll encounter when shopping. One customer recently reached out to the Entitled People subreddit detailing their bizarre experience with a woman who tried to steal their wheelchair at the grocery store. Below, you’ll find the full saga, as well…

Saptarshi Majumdar likes to say he always has the best seat in the house. Sometimes it’s next to the DJ booth at Koreatown’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang nightclub, while a music video is being shot. Other times it’s at the Hollywood Palladium, for three sold-out Four Tet performances in a row. Almost every weekend, it’s on the crowded dance floors of underground warehouse parties in industrial parts of downtown and East Los Angeles. He’s usually smiling, long hair in his face, wearing sunglasses indoors, shirt possibly…

As soon as I was old enough, I started going to gigs – I’ve always been into music. In fact, the night before my accident in 2005, I’d been to an Oasis gig and sprained my ankle. I was 17, on a family holiday in Spain, and when we arrived at the hotel at 10pm, my foot was all swollen.I got talking to a group of people my age and we went to a nightclub. Then we went to sit by a swimming pool and someone asked if I wanted to go skinny dipping. I jumped up and took my clothes off, but it was dark and I couldn’t see the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Imagine you could travel to only 1% of the city where you live—areas that were easily accessible to other residents. That's the situation for manual wheelchair users traveling by public buses in Columbus, a first-of-its-kind study finds. The situation for those with powered wheelchairs is only…

As they do every week during football season, the Lowe family gathered Sunday morning to watch the NFL games on two big flat screens in the South Los Angeles home of the family matriarch.But as the San Francisco 49ers prepared to face off against the Philadelphia Eagles, there was one fewer family members watching. Anthony Lowe, 36, had been shot and killed by Huntington Park police officers Thursday afternoon.Instead of talking football, the family spoke in hushed tones of the grainy cellphone video they’d seen the night…

| Barbara Gordon may be Batgirl, but she still has to use a wheelchair. Sun-Spider too, with web-powered crutches, and it looks like she'll be coming to the new Spider-Verse movie as well. And now there is The Fantastic Freewheeler… Back in March, Molly Felder tweeted "So happy to announce that I'll be writing a new graphic novel series for @CapstonePub about a superhero with cerebral palsy, coming in 2023!" And so it has come to be. Sixth-Grade Superhero! is the first title in The Fantastic Freewheeler, the debut…