'For plus-size folk, the bliss of going on vacation is often weighed down by the stress and discomfort of air transportation,' G_Russo1 writes.
In NYLON’s monthly column Plus Us, writer Gianluca Russo explores the many ways in which fat people are discriminated against — both systematically and on an interpersonal level — in society today, and looks to open up difficult dialogue in order to provide support, advice, and resources to the community.realized quickly that her size was “too much” for the passenger to her side.
Drue was enduring her first in-flight hater. “I knew I deserved to take up the space that I had purchased, I was fully in my seat, I was not encroaching upon his space whatsoever,” she tells NYLON., including the moment she confronted the man, Drue opened up a public discourse for the struggles of traveling when plus-size.
“All of those anxieties that I have about our bodies being a problem, that we're not supposed to fly, all began flooding my mind in that moment,” Dalessandro says. Plane travel is often a reminder that the world at large is not designed to embrace or even acknowledge the existence of fat folk.while Americans get statistically bigger, the possibility for uncomfortable situations like those of Drue and Dalessandro increase.
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