Mother's incredible response to man who fat-shamed her on flight
A mother wrote an open letter to a man who fat-shamed her on a plane, hoping that he’ll somehow get the message.
Katie Kiacz published the letter to the anonymous passenger who made snide comments about her body in a text message to a friend on a Delta Airlines flight from Orlando to Detroit on Tuesday.
“Dear Man on flight DL1723,” the letter said.
“You referred to me as a ‘2-ton woman.’ You told your friend soon as I boarded and you saw me that it was ‘not good’.
“When I confronted you saying ‘I am not two tons but I did just have a baby’, you sighed and got up to use the bathroom then quietly asked the flight attendant for a different seat.”
Ms Kiacz said the man’s words were “heartless”.
“You did not apologise. You did not even acknowledge my existence throughout the remainder of the flight. That’s fine. I do not need your validation. So why am I posting? To call you out. Because I do not exist to please you. Because I will take up as much space as I want. Because even when confronted you did not think you were in the wrong, that you did not need to apologise,” she said.
“I’m glad you had to sit next to me the entire two-hour flight, I’m only sorry I couldn’t take up more space.
“As a woman, I am sick of this s***. Would he have said that had I been a man? Or had my daughter and husband with me? I don’t know. But women deal with these attitudes and behaviour more than men, that I do know. And I. Am. Over. It.”
Kiack hashtagged the airline and the phrase “Call him out”.
The post was shared 102,000 times and a woman posted that she doesn’t fly for fear of being shamed.
A spokesperson for Delta did not return Yahoo’s request for comment.
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