Certainly nothing new here (see: Kevin Smith etc etc), but was wondering if anyone else saw the most recent story in the Huffington Post/AOL Travel, MSNBC on fat people being humiliated/singled out on airlines (specifically Southwest)?
http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/05/12/kenlie-tiggeman-too-fat-to-fly-on-southwest/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42996971/ns/travel-news/
The only thing that actually made me take pause with this article was the closing:
But there has been some good to come out of all of this. On her blog, Tiggeman wrote an open letter to fitness guru and New Orleans native Richard Simmons, since his videos played such a large role in her weight loss. She said she wanted to use her free voucher to visit his studio in Beverly Hills, and somehow Simmons saw the letter and wrote to her personally and asked her to work out with him
She's already lost 120 lbs, but clearly we can feel resolution in the fact that she can get an airline voucher and a visit with Richard Simmons after this. :doh:Because as much as she says the airline needs to be more sensitive, what everyone really wants is for the fatties to lose weight and for this to be a non-issue.
http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/05/12/kenlie-tiggeman-too-fat-to-fly-on-southwest/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42996971/ns/travel-news/
The only thing that actually made me take pause with this article was the closing:
But there has been some good to come out of all of this. On her blog, Tiggeman wrote an open letter to fitness guru and New Orleans native Richard Simmons, since his videos played such a large role in her weight loss. She said she wanted to use her free voucher to visit his studio in Beverly Hills, and somehow Simmons saw the letter and wrote to her personally and asked her to work out with him
She's already lost 120 lbs, but clearly we can feel resolution in the fact that she can get an airline voucher and a visit with Richard Simmons after this. :doh:Because as much as she says the airline needs to be more sensitive, what everyone really wants is for the fatties to lose weight and for this to be a non-issue.
