Feeling fat and crampy

Series (5/5) » Being overweight, in a society that devotes a cult to thinness, often leads to stigma or inappropriate behavior.

Scary places like an entrance turnstile that has to bend itself, restrooms that can’t turn, safety belts that are too short or jump seats. . Furniture, transportation, cultural spaces are not designed for overweight people. Their bodies are constantly “overflowing”. What if the way public space is organized reflects a hatred of fat people?

Fat Friendly condemns this. “The bigger we get, the more our universe shrinks,” says the France and Belgium-based association.