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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Should overweight people be requested to purchase two plane tickets?
Southwest Airlines messed with the wrong self-described fatty this time.
Director Kevin Smith’s Ding Dong fueled fight yesterday with the airline via his Twitter page and online diary continues to spark debate.
It all opens up a very important question, should fat people be forced to buy two seats or is this just another example of how they are oppressed in society?
Let’s face it, airplane seats aren’t exactly roomy and no one wants to be wedged in between the wall and a larger person. Still fat people are people too.
As a recap, the “Clerks” director says a pilot ejected him from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., saying he didn’t fit properly in a single seat, the Associate Press reports.
The airline has sort of apologized, but Smith and Southwest have still been battling it out online.
This is part of Smith’s reply to a Twitter user who said he “expected special treatment as a celebrity:”
a) I fit in the seat on an Oakland to Burbank Southwest Airlines flight
b) My lard didn’t spill over onto my fellow passengers
c) I could buckle the belt. I complied with the Southwest Airlines standards… and yet they bounced me regardless.
So what you call “expecting celebrity treatment” I call “expecting what I paid for.” In other words, a seat; which I fit into. I am fat, yes; but not Too Fat To Fly (yet).
I don’t know how you’re somehow finding a way to paint this as a portrait of Hollywood ego and excess run amok, but you flatter me, madam: I’m not that guy. One can’t have a giant-sized ass and a giant-sized ego (must… resist urge… to make… circa… 2004… JLo joke…). Your anger with me over what’s very clearly a case of an airline f***ing up (then continuing to f*** up, compounding the f***-up with mistruths and half-information) is better saved for those who SEEK extra privilege. I don’t and certainly didn’t in this case. I wanted nothing more nor less than EVERY OTHER PASSENGER: to sit in the seat I paid for. That I fit into.*
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