Thanks for giving us an opportunity to say "You ROCK!"

Yeah, I don't understand how telling someone to lose weight OR learn respect is somehow better. What, would the alleged rude behavior be condoned if the woman was hot?

Allison!! Welcome to Jez! We love you!

One thing I want to add—-the thing that makes it potentially unlikely that this rebuttal was written by the original offending dude is that he obviously wasn't there to watch the drama unfold. But he also doesn't describe any part of the scene that I didn't include in my original message, with two exceptions: one, he…

And how do we know that you're not the crying woman?!

Well said.

Just wanted to stop by and say you are an American treasure, Alison.

Also, everyone who mentions the Orange line seating is right—-the benches face one another so what happened was in full view of other passengers. However, I was about equidistant from scene as the people in the opposite bench were. When he said his comment to her, he faced her and leaned in. You'd have to have really…

The term "drop a verbal fartbomb" is now my most favorite thing in the world. It has taken the place of puppies, kittens, lollipops, and everything else that brings joy to my heart. Thanks for being the kind of person who stands up for strangers. We need more people like you on this little planet we call home.

I GOT FLAGGED AGAIN. Who is the behind this??? Someone who not only refuses a debate but wants to fucking silence me? HELL TO THE NO.

None of those are working... :( Can you do a Groupthink piece here? Also, Team Alison all the way.

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I have a Nintendo DS. The system can be annoying if you're in a quiet room but probably inaudible to other passengers. There is no way the speakers were "set at a selfishly loud volume" and even more unlikely that she turned it up even more. I call bulllshit on this story because of…

I agree with you but the orange line has bench seats that face each other, so there would be no "rows" so it's entirely possible she squeezed in a small space, while also being possible that the poster overheard [if it's not wacklemore] I think he meant front row seat in the metaphorical sense.

Hi, this is Alison, and I want to say that I'm in agreement with you. At first, when I wrote my rebuttal, I thought this was just some other person on the train. But now I'm suspicious that it's the dude I called out. My rebuttal was flagged, for one. Here it is reposted: http://jezebel.com/could-there-be…

OK, dude, whatever.

This whole thing reeks of a guy who hates fatties and is happy to have an excuse to mock one. Her fatness isn't inherently rude, so there was no reason to mention it, other than crass meanness. Whatever point he had was completely overshadowed by his blatant meanness. Maybe she was rude, but he was definitely an…

So it's cool to throw racial slurs at someone if they're being a dick to you? When you have a legitimate problem with someone and you start insulting their appearance, race, or nationality to hurt their feelings, you end up looking like the asshole in the argument and undermining whatever point you had in the first…

I agree with you Madeleine, that it sounds particularly like this poster has made up a story with a cartoon fat villain. So much of it feels like an allegory for the sense of offense this person feels for fat people existing. For one thing, the fat woman reacting to the cowardly drive-by "you're fat" with tears does…

"and you're upset that no one treats you like the special snowflake you believe yourself to be."

This is wonderful. Good for the letter writer.