[tw: fat hate]

I had to fly somewhere recently and had to pay for two tickets, which is bullshit but that’s not the point here. I figured at least I’d get to travel in peace, right? Of course not. First I had to get down the world’s narrowest aisle to even get to my seats, that was loads of fun. Then when I’m finally settled in, I have to get up again cause the guy in the window seat shows up. Then this guy wants me to switch seats with him. I said hell no, I had to pay for two seats and I’m gonna fucking sit in them. You want more leg room, you buy a second seat too. And this guy, he gets the flight attendant involved, says something about 90 second evacuations and it took me half that just to get up… like what the hell, he was fucking timing me while I’m struggling to get out of this Chinese finger trap of a seat, who does that kind of thing? This fucking asshole says that he can’t sit in his seat because if the plane crashes he’ll die in a fire and it’s all my fault. Now I’ve been informed a million times that I’m eating myself to death but apparently now we fatties cause second-hand death too, like cigarettes or something. Fucking fat hater of the year, found a brand new way to dehumanize me.

Anyway. The flight attendant said her hands were tied and unless another passenger agreed to switch, the bigoted asshole had to sit in his seat. You’ll be shocked to hear that no one volunteered to sit next to me, even though I paid for the fucking second seat and wouldn’t be “spilling over” onto anybody. There must have been 200 people on that flight and no one would treat me like a fucking human being. Just putting that out there in case anyone thinks buying a second seat is a fucking solution to fucking oppression.