next time, take the bus...yup, Liberalism is a mental illness
Kevin Smith is a liberal, but he is correct, many people take a snobbish view of the overweight and want to relegate them to second-class citizenship, much the same way they treat smokers.
There was a time when he wasn’t as political. His movies were actually funny back then.
Political beliefs don’t matter as much as whether or not the man puts out a decent product, and he is failing on that account.
I was seated between two extremely overweight people on an airplane once and was almost crushed to death...........I wanted to go to the back of the plane and sit with the smokers but they had already banned smoking years before.
“Kevin Smith Loses Weight, Feels Bad About It”
If he wants to feel bad about something, how about inflicting the crapfest that was “Dogma” on millions (well okay, a couple hundred) of movie goers?
next time, take the bus...In an interview with Joy Behar on her "HLN" show
Lol, yet another loser.
I do think it’s a matter of time before you get weighed at the terminal and your ticket price gets ‘adjusted’ due to your weight.
...and for people that don’t like the policy, they can (and will) simply have to buy a ‘full-figured’ ticket, or fly on an airline that doesn’t care (i.e., gets all of the big people).
There are two ways to approach this.
The author assumes that Smith wants to change laws to make oppressing overweight people against the law. This may be the case.
However, the opposite may also be true. That many people feel it is acceptable to annoy, disparage or discriminate against other people because they are overweight.
The airline has a right to deny service to someone who can’t fit in their seat, or who will cost them extra money to transport. But it would also be a good idea for an airline to provide extra large seating at a higher price, as well. There are enough overweight people to do so.
However, if Smith walks up to an airline ticket office, that has no official policy about overweight people, and the clerk tells him that he can’t have a ticket because he isn’t attractively slender, that is a different situation entirely.
If an overweight person wants to eat in a restaurant, and is mistreated by their staff because of his weight, he has every reason in the world to be upset about it. It is not their job to tell him how to live his life, or pester him. They can butt out. And this is not a question of taking his business elsewhere.
Kevin Smith is a dork.
Well, if this guy finds any measure of success with his obesity advocacy, you’ll see first class seat widths throughout the cabin by force of law because narrower seats discriminate, thereby driving the cost of flying through the roof.
Sound silly? Look at the costs imposed upon every business and pubic facility to accomodate handicapped individuals. Bathrooms stalls are huge now so the wheelchair bound have space to get from the wheelchair to the toilet. Ramps, door thresholds, elevators ... the cost has been immense.
So, there’s a precedent. Don’t get me wrong, attempting to accomodate the handicapped was and is a good thing, but it’s a precedent that like all precedents will be extended by force of law. We’re talking about the government after all.
I hope somebody advocates for bigger plane seats.
I fit in the seats fine as is, but I like my room.
Bringing "Super Size" back to McDonald's?
Wow, how edgy and original. A definite miss.
He sounds like a twit.
Not much talent, a filthy sweaty degenerate com symp sloth.
What makes him think he is superior to christian god fearing decent folk is beyond me, his prejudice is just as vile and wrong as anything the moral majority types might be accused of, its just slanted towards glorifying evil.