Fat Activist Shames Flight Passenger For His Private Texts

ashley.rae | July 3, 2017
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Fat-positivity apparently means crying harassment when you’re the harasser.

According to Cosmopolitan, People, Yahoo, the BBC, and ABC, “My Big Fat Fabulous Life” star Whitney Way Thore stood up for her fellow fat friend, Natalie Hage, who was allegedly “harassed” by the man next to her on a flight.

Hage was reportedly harassed when the man sitting next to her on the flight sent private text messages expressing his feelings about sitting next to an overweight person on a flight.

After violating another passenger’s privacy by looking at his texts, Thore took it upon herself to make a public post alerting American Airlines about the “#fatshaming” on board the flight:

In messages she wrote privately to American Airlines but then divulged publicly, Thore wrote, “My friend Natalie Hage is on flight 937 from DFW to LAX. The man seated next to her in the window seat has been making her extremely uncomfortable due to her size — although she is fully in her seat with the arm rest down. She even saw him texting foul things about her and has photos of it.”

Hage shared her thoughts about the incident on Instagram, saying writing it left her “shaking.” She also called this “a fat person’s daily reality” and said that no matter what, because you are fat, people will “still f***k with you and try to hurt you.”

Hage also took it upon herself to try to publicly humiliate the passenger for sending private text messages in a viral Facebook video. She told the man her body was none of his business, despite her activism and modeling being centered around the size of her body:

Hage was applauded for her actions during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”

“I've had a lifetime of experiences of people getting away with treating me terribly and this time was enough. This was enough,” she said.

She added, “I spent years and years building a social media platform based on body positivity. It doesn't matter how or why you might be overweight, or you might be fat, but you still deserve to be treated like a human being."

Everyone deserves to be treated like a human being -- unless, of course, they’re annoyed by someone taking up too much space on a plane. Then, apparently, they deserve to be publicly attacked.

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