Should Fat People Be Given More Accommodations? - Hear me out...

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Many of them are surely to fat to hold down a job. So, how can they afford all that junk food? I guess they get some kind of welfare, e.g. for disability?

 

[SelmaHendersen]

It's a shame that capitalism inspires such greed, and that if a business took a stand against obesity and simply said no to absurdly rotund people, a competing business would hang a sign on its door reading 'Fat Kids Eat Free ages 3-12'.

 

[Sawmill]

Another solution has been suggested by making land whales buy several seats to accommodate their bulk

You think fat people would complain about this, but they'll be happy with this arrangement if you inform them this also means they get extra meals on the plane.

 

[Manah]

If these people had any shame to begin with, they wouldn't need more than one seat to fit their massive flab.

No, fuck these fatties.

Do not fuck fatties.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

There should only be accommodations for those who have a diagnosed condition (eg hypothyroidism) or likely medication causing their obesity.

If you like McNuggets too much, put the fork down if you want that plane ticket. But, we shouldn’t be penalizing someone just for having actual thyroid disease/ a hormonal imbalance like PCOS.

With certain diseases, even if you eat less you can still gain weight as your body wrongly stores it as fat since your metabolism doesn’t work properly, or the disease makes it very hard to be physically active due to pain/fatigue/immobility, and certain medications can cause weight gain, these medications and diseases are no fault of your own. But those cases are the exception not the rule.

Hypothyroidism usually leads to a 15-20lbs weight gain. It does not cause you to become morbidly obese.

Meidcation is the same way. If you are on medication that makes you gain weight, STOP EATING SO MUCH FATTY. If you are on medication that screws with your metabolism and eat your way to 400lbs, that is your fault and your fault alone.

There are plenty of people on these medications and with these medical conditions that fit in plane seats perfectly fine.

 

[queerape]

Hypothyroidism usually leads to a 15-20lbs weight gain. It does not cause you to become morbidly obese.

Meidcation is the same way. If you are on medication that makes you gain weight, STOP EATING SO MUCH FATTY. If you are on medication that screws with your metabolism and eat your way to 400lbs, that is your fault and your fault alone.

There are plenty of people on these medications and with these medical conditions that fit in plane seats perfectly fine.

I work in a healthcare field, and I can tell you that in general, averages are not terribly helpful. It's very hard to predict how a particular patient's body is going to react to a condition or medication. For a lot of people, they only need to eat a little bit or an average and gain a lot more weight, and to not gain weight you'd have to literally starve yourself. With the same amount of intake, some patients with the exact same condition or medication gain no weight at all , some gain tons of weight, and you can't know who will do what.

The average may be 15-20 lbs, but that doesn't say much as there is so much variance. It depends on your age, sex and genetics too how your body responds to a condition or medication. Medication and conditions can also mess with your hunger signalling too, so you may not know you are eating too much. There are simply too many factors, and too many different effects disease states and medications may have because your body does not respond to hunger and metabolism as it would normally.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

The only accommodation obeasts deserve is complimentary tapeworms.

If you need another seat, you pay for it. You afford all that junkfood and fast food in ridiculous quantities - and that stuff is significantly more expensive than healthy groceries even when you're eating a comparable amount of calories - so you can afford to buy an extra ticket.

 

[Splendid]

fatties should be in a back of the bus

The buses would always be late unless we somehow redesigned them all to have doors at the very back. We'd probably have to redesign certain bus stops too.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I feel it's worth pointing out that you can still be a pretty fat fuck and still fit in one airplane seat, school desk, not need a scooter in walmart, etc. Deciding that you're fine being 10-15 pounds overweight if it means you can eat foods you enjoy even knowing it might shave a couple years off at the end is a perfectly legitimate decision, imo, being so fat that it fucks up your day to day is a whole different ballgame.

 

[Roger Whore]

Absolutely no.