Today in BBC I was shocked to be informed that seats in airplanes are going to get smaller…It is honestly unbelievable that the someone sitting in their corner office at Boeing decided to play a psychological test on travelers to see how small the seats will be before people crack. The reason? obesity is increasing (ironically the aviation analyst was rather large himself) The obesity rate has gotten so out of control that currently if an individual is large they have to pay extra for seat room… however now, they are deeming seats on airplanes, for those that exceed a threshold weight, and other seats will be made smaller to accommodation larger seats for larger people. I know that a social segregation and stigma of obese people against fat people has occurred but this is truly a new form of discrimination and segregation. How humiliating will it be for an individual whom Boeing has deemed obese to come up to a flight attendant for them to say that they’re sorry but there are some large seats reserved for their stature. There always has to be some sort of segregation in cultures eh? Black people have to sit at the back of the bus, or have segregated bars, but now there is literally discrimination and segregation of obese individuals in the public setting. I honestly think it is just as bad as racial prejudice. The aviation analyst says its good news- yay? People now have to pay more for weighing more and on top of that bring a humiliating awareness to their larger frame…Its already an uncomfortable experience with the little room airlines has so graciously given us in the first place. The public had already rebelled… and yet they airbuses and airlines are implementing this policy anyways. Thus, they deny us the right to take anything more than a mL on board, they took away of snacks of peanuts on non international flights, we have to pay for blankets, a soggy sandwich, and now they are giving average sized people less room- and humiliating the larger people with extra fees and segregated seats? The telegraph calls these people, “the fat people” and are pattern, the direction in which future trends of demography can be seen to include. Analytically, this is apparently supposed to raise awareness of obesity and public health- but having elements of our society progress into an age where things are segregated by weight rather than by person- is not an appropriate and sensitive way to include the  globes struggling obesity problem. Moreover, despite the 80% objection approval of the population for the new seat policy, the airlines are implementing it anyways. Is anyone troubled by the direction in which society is being categorized and treated- its almost as though it is reverting itself back into a stage of intolerance, only instead of racial intolerance and prejudice- society is prejudice of people who carry extra weight?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22141525