Not only excuses, they're compelled to invent things that simply do not exist in the article. This whole "she encroached on his space, she bumped into him!" nonsense is flat-out incorrect and not even IMPLIED in the article, let alone stated. And yet, probably 75% of the assholish comments reference it like it's…

You missed the part where she never leaned over him or touched him or invaded his space. Otherwise, super cool story, bro. Also, did it ever occur to you that some fat people have anxiety about being touched or crowded as well?

So she's under an obligation not to "start shit" by responding, but he's not under any obligation not to ACTUALLY start shit by muttering and sniping about ostensible manners? That's a curious methodology you have there.

Oh, I know enough about you.

This is idiotic. Would he (and you) have preferred that she let him get up and then made him stand there in the aisle while she put her bag in the overhead? Doubtful. She indicated she'd need to get past him to her seat, while being apologetic and polite about it, and then moved to put her bag away. Presumably he…

The original article makes it very clear that he never objected to her violating his personal space or hitting him with her bag, so no, you're still an ass. Matt Bomer agrees, sorry. :(

Did you miss the part where she relayed his own words wherein he objected to her not getting out of the way fast enough for him and said nothing about her invading his personal space? I mean, fucking hell, the sheer number of people willfully misreading this article kind of prove her point.

She never said she was late to the plane, or that it was held up. She said she almost missed it. Running down the concourse and getting to the gate just as the last people are boarding is almost missing it. You're manufacturing content.

If it makes you more comfortable to look at it that way, sure. And ell oh fucking ell at the person gabbling about how she possibly hit him with her bag, when it says right in the article, IN HIS OWN WORDS, that he wasn't objecting to anything like that at all, casting any aspersion about someone else reading into…

Sorry you have a disgusting soul :( Sorry you can't imagine a world where someone who isn't fat can still have compassion and empathy and human respect for fat people. Sorry you exist to make life worse for other people just because you think you're an expert because you got a "tummy" for five minutes once and you…

Go fuck yourself too, sweetcheeks.

Ooh, you tried, but that doesn't count as fucking yourself (though it might say a lot about your self-image). You keep at it though! Someday you'll get there! Try, try again, little buddy!

Lol, bullshit you don't. Go fuck yourself. Were you the kid in school who was nonstop misery for everyone to deal with because of your aggressive hatefulness?

Lol no it's not. And I'm going to need to see the results of your exhaustive femur research that makes you such an expert, plus your meticulously cataloged statistics on how, you know, the space between seating rows varies in planes which naturally leads to knees fitting comfortably on one plane but not another, even…

You need to go fuck yourself! :)

I have had people peevishly call for a flight attendant to complain that their seat was broken, even though I pointed out more than once that it was my, you know, bones and stuff that prevented it from reclining. The last several flights I've taken I had to actually take the in flight magazine out of the seat pocket…

You say you pointed to the seat and smiled apologetically - well is it possible he wasn't able to glean what your smile meant?

You'd think that by losing all those pounds you'd have made MORE room for compassion and empathy, not less, as you seem to have done... Strange.

You brushed up against this guy without the common courtesy of saying sorry.

Apparently there's some planet out there full of pedantic shitheads I've never been to, and thank fucking god. She said "Sorry, that's my seat over there." That is all anyone has ever needed to say in an airplane where the entire seating concept is based on having to let people in and out of rows, particularly if…