My brother is 6'3". I can almost guarantee you that, during a six hour flight, his knee will touch your knee. Probably more than once. Should he buy an extra seat? Or the woman upthread who has wide hips, who is 1cm into armrest territory - should she buy an extra seat? Should my elbows buy an extra seat so they don't…

What exactly do you expect people to do about the thighs touching or elbows brushing thing? Straightjackets? 900 layers of Spanx? Buying a whole extra seat for 1" more of hip room? If it's that big a deal, why do you put YOURSELF in situations where OMG someone might accidentally touch you? Why do we have to…

You think that person wanted their thigh to be touching yours? Don't flatter yourself, hon.

I guess I'd also be concerned that "let me move you over here, oh wide-hipped one" is one step away from "I'm giving you all the room you need, because I'm deplaning you back into the terminal, fatty" :0/

Do you stand in shopping malls screaming "DON'T TOUCH ME! GET AWAAAAY!" when everyone brushes past you? Listen, you keep saying you don't like being crammed into tiny places like it's this novel opinion that no one else shares. We ALL hate flying here! (Or, almost all.) If someone is touching you on purpose, that's…

I have a medical issue and my doctor isn't concerned with anything like blood pressure/cholesterol/etc, but thanks for your fucking opinion on me flying :-) I apologize for the fact that I may have to exist near you at some point, but you "understand," so maybe we can skip past me self-flagellating and screaming Mea…

It sounds like you're just bound and determined to be upset about this, regardless of how it plays out.

Because it's the airline equivalent of someone going "HEY FATASS, I SAVED YOU THE LAST SLICE OF CAKE." and everyone watching with bated breath to see if you eat it. Unless someone is genuinely struggling, why not just treat them like everyone else? You aren't really being kind by drawing the whole plane's attention to…

I'm so sorry, Doll_Legs. I'm sure they got fat and sick *just to spite you.* How dare they!

THIS. It's not like we're all maliciously plotting to sit next to thin people so we can spill over their armrests, or deciding on a whim to claim half of someone else's seat.

I'm 5'10" AND a size 18/20, and I cram myself into the exact same space as everyone petite, thin, delicate person (or child, for that matter) and pay the exact same price. Asking me to pay more because I'm extra uncomfortable, without giving me perks like more room? Jerk move.

I am so, so sorry this happened to you. I'm fat, I know I'm fat, I wish everyone in the world would stop feeling the need to POINT OUT that I'm fat, and I genuinely live in terror of being humiliated on an airplane because one more person finds my existence near them too gross to stand.

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