[siberianheat]

Why should she get preferential treatment?

Just because she’s fat?

Because if you read the WHOLE story she wants obesity to be a protected class of people.

No way.

Would you be OK with her getting a ‘free’ airline seat just because she was so big that only 3 people instead of 4 could fit in the row when she sat down?

Her butt physically occupies the space of TWO normal butts and she wants that extra space for free.

Nope.

I'm only pointing out that what she was really asking for with this ride was pretty minor, and more of a courtesy to other riders. If given a choice would you want to shoe-horn in to her row, or have a more comfortable row behind her or on the next bus? Apparently the ride operators want you to shoe-horn in.

As I said before, I think her beef is with the rides she can't physically fit on--the Harry Potter rides--and she is using this one as a lame example of the park trying to screw her.

For the record I disagree with her entire premise, I would never support giving away a free seat on an airline due to size, and I don't believe obesity should be a protected class. Just cram into the bench seat like everyone else in the world. However, for some strange reason this thread bothers me because it has been loaded with misrepresentations of her request and others have gone right to making fun of her weight rather than arguing the case on its merits.

[Black Agnes]

I’ve not made fun of her weight.

I was about her size before I changed my eating habits.

The issue I have is this. If ‘we’ are forced to accomodate her size, what about the 400lb people. Or the 500lb people.

Just how much more expensive will EVERYTHING be just because fat people can’t be bothered to just put down the food?

And it wasn’t a small request. Looking around at walmart, the entire ride would have been one person per bench before long. And weight distribution DOES matter even if the ride only purports to go 1mph.

I’ll give an example. Nowadays, every wheelchair and hospital bed at our local hospital is an ‘obese’ special. They are simply huge. How much do those cost? Who, exactly, eats that cost (pun intended). How much of our increase in medical bills are due to the ‘shared’ cost of fat people? Mind you, I think the medical field is responsible for keeping people fat (with bad bad dietary advice and meds that do nothing but generate body fat (insulin for example)) from a profit standpoint. At some point there will be a ‘give’ though.

But I’m back to my original point. Obesity shouldn’t be enabled or accomodated any more than drug addiction. ‘Giving’ her the seating she requested is accomodating and enabling.

Yes, she should be fat shamed. It works. When I literally got stuck in the chair in my OB’s office and stood up with chair affixed firmly to my posterior and had to get help to detach said chair it was a wakeup moment for me. I didn’t demand special seating for my fat ass. I stopped eating what I was eating. Low carb really does work. Ditto fasting. I’ve lost 30 more pounds since Thanksgiving doing the Jason Fung ‘plan’.

I suspect this particular lady doesn’t see anything wrong with her weight and probably wouldn’t diet if you asked her. She probably likes her size and likes eating. Not every fat person wants to be a thin person. I can respect that right up until they insist I pay for their ‘hobby’ in some way. Even if a minor inconvenience. I’ll gladly be inconvenienced for someone truly disabled. I will not be inconvenienced for an unrepetant food addict. That’s not being a friend to them.