Reply #33: these are two separate issues

[pitohui]

i have no sympathy for an obese person who is sitting in my seat on the airplane, i paid for the seat, and i need to be able to sit there safely without being cramped and having half or more of another person's body crushing into mine -- the obese person sitting not just in his seat but in mind puts me in a life-threatening situation -- DVT (deep vein thrombosis) kills and not just older people, a young woman of only 28 died on a long flight of DVT

when your obesity becomes a threat to MY life, that's when you need to draw a line, i should not have my life and health put at risk because you as a fat person are too cheap to buy the size seat you need (either a first class seat or two coach seats together)

so, yes, obese people should be banned from flying if they don't buy a seat large enough to accommodate them and they refuse to stop overhanging my seat

in any situation other than an airplane, i could have the obese person arrested for assault, even for a sex crime, in the case where the person is deliberately pressing into my breast -- it's only on an airplane where this kind of touching is allowed and airlines mostly don't put a stop to it unless you get kind of nasty and loud in your complaint

it's a health issue, pure and simple -- but there is no nice way to say "fat creep is pressing his entire arm into my tit, can we please put him in jail now?" so, yes, when a woman is being touched and pressed into, and the airline seems to condone it, i guess we do get a little shaky and our voices may seem to tremble with anger -- just as yours might tremble if you'd just been subjected to unwanted sexual touching


my being a midget, on the other hand, is never a threat to the health or safety of anyone else, and it's hard to understand why people find so much entertainment in making fun of me for being short or in trying to push me around because i'm "tiny"

yes, when it's a death cage match between an obese person trying to push me around because i'm small, i'm going to do all that is legally within my powers to protect myself

and if this means embarrassing the obese person by notifying a flight attendant and having them removed for pressing into my body on flight, then too bad, the fat person knew they were fat before they tried to get away with booking a too small seat, they tried to cheap out and game the system at MY expense and they are not owed any respect or courtesy

for my opinion, the federal law should mandate all airline seats be significantly larger and quit playing the game of "no one knows FOR SURE that these small seats are causing DVT and killing people," c'mon, it's as bogus as the tobacco institute pretending that "no one knows FOR SURE that smoking causes lung cancer"