Maher/Corden and obesity

[A. Secular Human]

I don't give a shit if obese people need or want special consideration. I'm literally completely unaffected by obese people, so my tolerance for them is pretty total at this juncture.

What Bill said was pretty douchey. I do agree with him that we have an "eating shit" problem in the U.S. Most of us who are chubby are chubby because of food decisions we make. My food decisions may have a tinge of mental health in the mix, but it's mostly me, just eating shit. That said, of course fat shaming isn't going to help. What kind of monster thinks body shaming is okay? Fuck that attitude. Drowning people don't survive because you held their head under water.

Maybe because you were never required to physically interact with them. Have you ever airplaned sitting next to one? Consideration is completely one way. 

You should also experience the pleasure of work travel with an obese partner.

I once had a huge man (400 pounds +?) come down the plane aisle and try to sit in the middle seat next to my aisle seat.  As he was sitting, he asked me if he could put up the arm rest between us, and I naively assented, never having been faced with such a circumstance before.  Huge mistake.  I spent the rest of the flight sitting in less-than half of the seat I spent a full fare on, pushed up against a sweaty and stinky behemoth. I also continuously fought with the flight attendants, who insisted I not hang my shoulder and legs out in the aisle, so they could get the carts past me.

Most miserable fucking flight I've ever taken, and I've flown with seat-back kicking kids and screeching babies.

I will never again "accommodate" an obese person seated next to me on a plane.  I've had others simply pull the armrest up as they try to sit down, but I have objected, and insisted it stay down.  They looked to the flight attendant for help, who then *ask* me if they can put it down, and I say "no, I'd rather sit in the entire seat that I've paid for".  On the two other flights this has happened on, the flight attendant has found another (two) seat(s) for them, after moving someone else that's a normal weight into the seat next to mine.

I'm of the opinion that every airline ticket should require the passenger, with their baggage, to get on a scale and pay per pound.  Then a multiplier is used, depending on distance and class.   I'm tired of paying an extra fifty bucks for a fifty pound suitcase when someone else on the plane weighs a hundred pounds more than me, yet pays the same basic fare as I do.  That's just wrong.

Airplane capacity is weight-driven.  It's time that the fares are, too.