Posted on 05/23/2023 6:16:51 PM PDT by simpson96
A “plus size model” who posts under “Big Curvy Olivia” on Tik Tok has accused United Airlines of discriminating against her and other passengers of size after she struggled to wedge herself through the Polaris Business Class cabin on a recent flight.
She faulted United for discrimination, lamenting that it should build wider aisles on its aircraft.
Admittedly, I’m covering this somewhat out of amusement: it is not my aim to fat-shame this woman and I do question whether she is even serious. First, she has a backpack on. Maybe you try removing that before wedging yourself through a tight space? She looks like one of those rude people whose backpack hits those around her when walking down an aisle because they are too self-centered or oblivious to remove it. Second, maybe use this moment as a wake-up call to take control of your body?
If I was running for Congress, my pet peeve issue would be preventative health. The obesity around us amazes me (and the reason for that, ranging not just from a lack of self-discipline, but due to food insecurity and food deserts and the prohibitive cost of preventive healthcare, cries out for a far greater emphasis in terms of public policy).
Every time I cover a story like this, I think of the analysis below by Bill Maher. With malice toward none and charity toward all, I admonish us all to take care of the only body we have. The best way we can do so is by eating right, exercising, and sleeping. And let us not embrace the confusion of calling such efforts hateful—
He’s spot on. Every member of the human family should be afforded dignity and respect, but this idea that it is cool or fashionable to be obese is a destructive and perverted form of wokery run amok.
Ok, I’m stepping off the soap box.
As for Olivia, recognition of the problem is the first step toward recovery. People are not laughing with you, but at you. In all sincerity, don’t wait any longer. I wish you all the best.
When she walks and you see her from the back
It looks like 2 pigs fightin’ in a tater sack
Homer & Jethro - “The Gal from Possum Holler”
In an emergency egress situation, everyone trying to exit the plane behind her would perish.
It's time once again to resume fat-shaming. And, yes, I get it. Everyone of you gluttonous, corpulent hambeasts suffers from a "medical condition."
Had to wait over 20 minutes to de-plane (missing my connection0 because some morbidly obesr minority had a “medical emergency” with paramedics finally unloading the slob.
This was at the end of a 6 hour flight, so a lot of us needed to take a leak, bad, but no, have to wait to unload the fat slob first.
Slob was under her own powere wedging past the seats getting out of the way.
Thought they had cargo doors in back, could have just unloaded her with a forklift and let the rest of us get going.
I can’t wait for complaints about narrow train aisles to start with demands for wider tracks for plus++ size friendly trains.
I do wish the seats were bigger even as a regular sized person. They really are cramming us in there.
We don’t build things for people 5 standard deviations off normal. That would mean everything is oversized for 99% of the rest of us.
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I agree about fat shaming and all other kinds of shaming.
PFFFWAAAAP.....
That’s a lot of stuffing in one package
I would be afraid for her standing on one side of Guam.
(FD: My BMI is much higher than it should be, and I barely fit in the economy seats on a plane, but I sit on the aisle and don’t take any space from other passengers.)
Should charge people by the pound to fly.
“Did she buy a ticket for only one seat?”
Cellists have to purchase 2 seats. I sat next to a cello on a coast-to-coast the lady had the window, cello in the middle. The flight attendant asked me if I wanted to move. I would rather sit next to a known than a who-knows-what or worse, a Dianetics reader. The cello was very polite.
In the Ford Trimotor era if you and your luggage weighed over 180 pounds, you would have lighten your stack of dollars.
Get the harpoon ready, thar she blows!!
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