Friday, June 21, 2002

Southwest Airlines now requires "passengers of size" who can't stuff themselves into one airline seat to buy two seats. Good for them, I say, having had the experience of "sharing" my seat with someone who's obviously eating for two or three (and I don't mean pregnant).

But "passengers of size"? That's as silly as "people of color" or "the differently abled." I hate euphemisms. Say they're too fat to fit in the seat or, if all those 300-pounders are too sensitive to the "F" word, say they're too "large." "Passengers of size" is just beyond parody.

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