Fat Activist Demands FREE Seats On Flights.. Girl Bye.

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[amandawilkinsontarot]

We don't want special privileges, but we want extra seats and we want everyone else to pay for them. Oh, and make new planes for us.

[Anna.T.]

“It’s a common fear among the plus-size community”. Yet, not scary enough to lay down the chips, I see.

[ilovehiyoko]

if you can’t fit in one airplane seat you should pay for the second one like everyone else, if companies gave free seats they’d have to mark up the prices on all the other seats to make up lost revenue which wouldn’t be fair to everyone else just because some people are so unhealthy they can’t fit in one seat.

[innovationbhm]

I’m a former fat woman. When I flew to Vegas in 2009…..I was embarrassed because I had to ask for an extender. (I was a size 28). I haven’t flown sense. I’m now a size 10….I’ll NEVER go back.

[SebastianKomor]

This is ridiculous. I have been overweight/fat most of my life. Never have I expected special treatment. I however changed my lifestyle, by removing sugar, better diet, and exercising. Lost 60 pounds so far, through share will and work. As well as making sure I am able to care for my son. Everything is a fkn phobia now, its comic, at best.

[justbelieve]

My American friends, please create a counter petition that larger passengers should be legally required to BUY two seats if over a certain size

[NickNapoli]

“How dare they not give me free seats. I don’t need to take responsibility for my poor choices. Society needs to cater to me.” - Fat Activist probably.

[alanalovell]

How about the safety and well-being of other passengers? She’s a fire hazard.

[mrminer]

"Fat girl walks across the country to SPARE THE AIRLINES and WORK ON HER OWN FITNESS ISSUES."
Now THAT's a story I would pay money to read.

[turbinetech]

Okay, I gotta say this: planes aren’t designed the way they are to be rude to fat or tall people. They are designed to be as aerodynamic as possible, meaning they can only be a certain size.

A lot of commercial airlines don’t buy what are, ironically, referred to as the widebodies (things like the Boeing 777 or the Airbus A380 ect) due to higher operating and maintenance costs. Even those planes don’t have much room in them because they are designed to fit as many people as possible, as I said, due to higher costs. Typically, airlines that have these planes don’t have many compared to the rest of their fleet.

To include bigger seats on a plane would mean that the seats would have to be approved by the government. Since everything in aviation is highly regulated, all changes must be considered airworthy. Making new, bigger seats would also throw off the weight and balance of the aircraft.

Speaking of weight and balance, the mathematical constant for passenger weight is 170lbs, which is several years out of date, considering a lot of people in America are heavier than that now. Is one overweight person going to throw off the balance of one jet? Most likely not, but it’s something to consider the more obese we become.

I’m not saying big people shouldn’t travel and they definitely deserve great customer service when they do fly. I just wanted to give some perspective of aircraft design and logic since my career field is aviation.

[sarbear]

I was a ride operator at six flags once and one of the hardest parts of the job was kicking people off if they couldn’t fit in the seat.
Some people would even yell at me for it and i had to explain that if the seat couldn’t buckle they could be critically injured or even die.

We’re trained to have a certain script to say so we dont come off blaming them but there is no reason for someone to yell or accuse me or any employee of being fatphobic when there’s literally nothing we could do to adjust the seat size

[ness]

Thyroids and PCOS do not make you 300 to 700 lbs. We're talking 10lbs, maybe in the 50lb range for extreme issues and water retention. It's not an additional 200 to 400 lbs. That's from over eating and drinking. No one is just supposed to be morbidly obese. This isn't an unavoidable issue.

[siennad]

If you can afford enough food to eat yourself into obesity… you can afford two plane seats.

[bsedcoder]

I had a super morbidly obese person sit next to me on a flight home from Seattle last year. He legit crushed my arm with his fat rolls. The flight attendants refused to let me up to tell them in private what was wrong. So I just said 'please move me before I lose my right arm.'

[judithcohn]

The fat acceptance movement went out of control. Now the entitlement factor is unreal. I’m overweight myself but that’s my fault nobody else’s. This girl has way more to worry about than airplane seats.

[mookieamoose]

I remember I was my biggest over 300lbs. I was depressed. I got the opportunity of a lifetime to go to sweden and was so excited. I had to come to terms wouldn't fit comfortably in an airline and I was going with a great group of friends and I didn't want my weight to be any factor that stopped me. I researched the measurements of the seats and made it my goal. I lost 50 lbs and I can't tell you the tears of joy I felt when I sat down and was able to buckle the seat.

[KyraHailey]

The last time I flew, I was the last person on the plane and only two seats were left
One in the middle between two morbidly obese people and a first class seat next to two small children.
I figured I wouldn't be allowed to fly first class but as soon as thr flight attendant saw where I was about to sit, she quickly brought me to the front and it was the most comfortable flight of my life! So glad I didn't get squished for four hours

[emanymton]

That girl isn’t just + size she’s the whole keyboard.

[juliannaking]

There IS A WEIGHT LIMIT...Planes Crash because of it.

[Glistery]

"BB gorl, you're not being marginalized you're BUSTIN out the margins!"