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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/frequentDeltaGuy on 2023-07-30 22:16:57.
My daughter is 16 years old and is skinny, she runs cross-country. We are coming back on a 5 1/2 hour flight across the country. When we went to our seats, I was seated next to this really large woman who was overflowing over into my seat. I had the window seat and she was in the middle seat.15 minutes in and I was miserable, I had my shoulder out in front and I was getting sore.
I asked a flight attendant if there were any other seats I could take instead she said that the flight was fully booked and that she was sorry. I excuse myself to go to the bathroom and talk to my daughter, and I was like please swap with me, I’ll take you shopping when we land. She said sure.
Flight is overall peaceful and we land, I didn’t think much of it, but then my daughter told the story to her friends and I guess it spread around. Now I have had 3 moms reach out to me and my wife and tell me that what I did was incredibly humiliating to the woman on the flight, that I basically made her feel her existence was hated. That, I should have stood up to the airline companies that cram people into tiny seats and not make her the target.
And that I ended up rewarding my daughter for putting up with fatness, that it creates really toxic environment in where fat people’s existence is something to be endured.
I end up also finding out that another mom was trash talking my family saying that this explains why my daughter and wife are skinny, that I hate fat people. I didn’t intend on all of this blow back I just wanted to be comfortable on my flight.