It's Not Fatphobic To Want Personal Space On A Plane

YouTuber takes to Twitter to complain about sitting in the middle of two obese people, but she isn't wrong and here's why.

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[jdgrupp]

It’s worse than that. They purposely picked seats with a space in between so they wouldn’t be slammed against each other, leaving the middle space to give themselves some room. Not even they wanted to be next to each other. They knew exactly what they were doing.

[MarySue]

“Passengers come in all shapes and sizes.” Yes, but the seats don’t.

[SydneyWatson]

Appreciate the sentiments, Matt! Obesity is a weird hill for everyone to die on.

[xntryk]

if she was touched unwillingly, that's assault.

[Resopheed]

She's not fatphobic, they're fitphobic.

[Snow-Willow]

This even violates AAir's own policies which says "if your body extends 1 inch or more beyond your seat you MUST purchase the seat next to you". They aren't even enforcing their own policies here. Sydney deserves a full refund and then some.

[macairhead]

This was strategic seating. This brother and sister absolutely left a seat between them for a reason. Their own comfort. They should have left it empty and paid for that seat together.

[debracooper]

Was on a plane once with my husband and the aisle seat in our row was free. Across the aisle were 3 obese people travelling together that could hardly fit into their 3 seats. They eyed the empty seat in our row and one of them started to get out of their seat to occupy it. We spotted what was happening and my husband moved into it. The absolute entitlement of wanting to create more space for themselves whilst reducing the space and spilling onto a stranger is astounding.

[mattc]

As a fat person I'm acutely aware of the amount of space I take up. I buy two plane tickets to avoid this situation. Down 60 pounds in the last 5 months, but I have a LONG way to go still

[antnfs]

It isn’t phobia, it’s disgust. I’m not scared, I’m repulsed.

[ToqTheWise]

The problem isn't even being fat, the problem is having zero body awareness or courtesy towards others.

[Inigo_The_Son]

As a frequent flyer, I have long advocated for "people sizers" at each gate. We have all seen the bag sizers used to determine if a carry-on bag exceeds the size allowed. A people sizer would consist of two poles placed 17" apart, which is the average width of an economy seat. If you cannot walk through without touching the sides, then you must buy a second seat, or a first class seat. It is absurd that the airlines allow the morbidly obese to buy one seat, and then spill over into their neighbor's seat. My brother recently boarded a plane, only to find a ginormous woman occupying both her seat and his. He brought this to the attention of the flight attendant, who suggested that HE should wait for a later flight. F**k that! The person who chose to overeat for the past 40 years should wait for the next flight, and hope that there are two empty seats to accommodate her enormous body. It would also be fare (pun intended) to charge passengers based on weight. Everybody knows that when you ship any type of package, the cost increases with size and weight. Nobody complains about this structure, because it is obvious that it costs more to transport a larger package. The same should apply to human packages.

[willstikken]

I was on an American airlines flight a few years ago, a woman in the middle seat was angry that i insisted on putting down the arm rest, which she spilled over. she called the flight attendant, complained and suggested she should be upgraded due to my rudeness. the attendant walked away, came back and took me to my upgraded seat instead...

The woman started raising all manner of chaos and was threatened with removal form the flight. Best AA flight ever.

[Grimblenork]

Can you imagine being so morbidly obese, traveling with another morbidly obese person, and ordering your seats to have a person in between you to have more room? The entitlement is just unbelievable, you know if the middle seat person was obese as well they would complain too. My brain can't fathom it.

[TheCuriousConservative]

The two obese ppl are related and chose to sit a seat apart from one another because they knew they'd spill on top of one another. They consciously chose to make a stranger feel uncomfortable.

[bunkyman]

If your body is touching me against my will, we have a problem. Where is that ever ok?

[AmericanToucan]

She should atleast get a partial refund for the part of the seat she didn’t get

[robertcolvin]

I once sat on a plane where the person overlapped the remote on my armrest. After 15 minutes I just shoved my hand under their gut and started flipping channels.
They looked at me appalled but I just looked them back in the eye and said “I don’t plan on flying for hours watching something I don’t want to watch.”
I refuse to be the only uncomfortable person in these situations.

[FreeKayyTeeKay]

The most egregious part about this is they are siblings and therefore knew exactly what they were doing buying tickets one seat apart from each other 😂

[realmama]

I am 4ft 10” and 98 lbs dripping wet. When I once complained to a cattle size person who was encroaching on my seat on a plane “you don’t need the space, I do.” I can’t help being tiny, but they could definitely help being obese, but apparently I was in the wrong!!