There is a seldom an excuse for being rude, however you don’t have to be rude to demand that you get all the space you pay for on an airplane. When I sit next to someone who encroaches into my space I don’t like it. I sometimes get up, find a stewardess or steward and ask to be moved to a seat that allows me to have all my space. They have done this for me and have also moved the fat person next to me.
Now, I have a problem with people who equate being fat with being yellow, black or white, something they have no control over. You make yourself fat. Queers say they were made that way, they weren’t and I don’t care if they are queer as long as they don’t show it off in public, they aren’t made that way any more than fat people are. Perhaps some people have a propensity to be queer and perhaps some people have a propensity to be fat, I sure do, but you don’t do things just because you want to or have a propensity to do them. We take responsibility for our actions and become what we want to become unless we are just too lazy to fight the natural man.
I’m sure a man or woman who sexually abuses children has a propensity to do that, an urge if you will. Perhaps we all have those urges in some form but we don’t act on them. Nearly everybody likes to eat and would eat too much except we know what it would do to us so we stop.
I do not feel sorry for this fat woman. She puts every ounce of fat on her body herself. Nobody forces her to eat more than she needs. She knows when she puts those calories in that she will be bothering someone else when she gets to a confined space but is too lazy to do anything about it. I say lazy but actually a better word is irresponsible.
As far as I’m concerned fat people should have to sit next to another fat person on a plane so they realize what they are doing to others.
Amen! to your post. When my friend told me that homosexuals can’t help it because they were “made that way”, I tell her that pedophiles and serial killers are “made that way”, too. Does that make them OK?