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Nov 06
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activism
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From the page: "If a fat woman, like you or I, gets on a plane, no one wants to sit next to us. Because they might be a bit put out that we take up some of their seat. It isn't our fault they make seats for thin people. Yeah, it sucks that the thin person might have to lose a little bit of their comfort. It isn't so great for us, either, spread across two seats. Especially when we have to put up with the glares and daggers. But if a thin person wrote an article about how how, to be fair, the thin person had a point, and the comments discussed how we should either lose the fat or not fly at all? I think you'd be up in arms.
If I get on a plane with my two year old, no one wants to sit next to me. Because they might be a bit put out that my child is noisy with either excitement or upset. It isn't my fault they don't make flights particularly child-friendly, with, say, games, or in-flight movies (except in the posh bit of the plane, obviously, where I can't afford to go). It also isn't my fault that if I nursed my child to calm him, I might also risk being kicked off the plane. (It also isn't my fault that if I did put an in-flight movie on for him, I'd still get judged for letting him watch television at all!) Yeah, it sucks that the child-free person might have to lose a bit of their comfort. It isn't so great for me, either, having to cope with an unhappy child, especially when I have to put up with the glares and daggers."