So a 300-pound woman boarded a plane and was big enough to spread across two seats. The airline told her that she’d need to purchase another seat, since they have a policy stating that anyone who takes up two seats must pay for them both. She refused to budge, and security hauled her off the plane. On her way out she screamed at the other passengers that she was being removed “either because I’m too fat or too black or just a woman.” Then, of course, she sued the airline for racial discrimination and lost.
I’d like to direct a personal message to this lady. First off: shut up about racism, shut up about sexism. Don’t be stupid. It’s a matter of size, simple as that. Where’s the other person supposed to sit if you’re in both seats? Everyone knows that people who fill two seats end up paying for both of them nowadays, so why are you any different? Because you’re black and a woman? Hello! Race and sex have nothing to do with it. But you just want to play the victim from every angle because the airline is following through on its “customer of size” policies. If you don’t like the airline’s policies on larger passengers filling two seats, then attack those policies. Don’t accuse people of racism or sexism just because you didn’t get your way. Christ.
Just for the record, I don’t know if throwing someone off a plane for being too large is the best way to handle such a situation, but that’s really beside the point. I just get angry when someone shouts “racism” for no reason whatsoever, when actual victims of racism out there are trying to be heard.
i personally have little sympathy for the morbidly obese. i know there are some people who genetic challenges, but on the whole i think most people just succumb to the “super size me” convinience. and then they get fat and feel sorry for themselves. there is this wonderful book by the serendipity series called “cassandra the cat” about the fat cat who ate to feel better about being fat. i think more people should read those childhood parables and realize that most of the time, you are only a victim of yourself
> Just for the record, I don’t know if throwing someone off a plane for
> being too large is the best way to handle such a situation, but that’s
> really beside the point.
Not to defend the nitwit, but they didn’t throw her off the plane for being large, they threw her off for making a scene and refusing to comply with reasonable (okay, that’s debatable) airline policies.
I myself happen to be rather larger than the average person, but I recognise that this is a result of my own lifestyle choices and I do not try to blame others for it. I’ve been following this story with disgust over on fark.com since it started. This woman is a microcosm example of all that is wrong with modern American society – stupid people find that their choices have resulted in a personal inconvenience and instead of reevaluating their choices and dealing with the life they have made for themselves, they expect the whole world to reconfigure itself around them to relieve them of any annoyance and yell “discrimination” when other people react intelligently by refusing.
Being fat makes you grumpy. I feel that she is more to be pitied than censured.
Hey now, that’s not so. I’m fat and I’m so relentlessly cheerful that I can stun a wallaby a furlong away with my grin. Being fat doesn’t make you grumpy, being an asshole makes you grumpy.
OK then, being fat makes SOME people grumpy.