Buckle up your plus-size seatbelts, folks; this one’s a tale for the ages — like “Moby Dick” or “The Odyssey,” but with a modern #bodypositive twist.
I have covered previously at PJ Media the escapades of ridiculously named fat activist Jae'lynn Chaney, avant-garde of a cottage industry of fellow morbidly obese travelers who demand free extra seats and assorted other carve-outs because normal human-sized accommodations don’t support their heft.
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She’s back, and this time she’s got a dizzying yarn about getting stuck in an airport revolving door and subsequently being ignored and fat-shamed for it by fatphobic staff.
Via Daily Mail (emphasis added):
A polyamorous plus-sized influencer has hit back after trolls accused her of claiming obesity was a disability.
Jae'lynn Chaney, 27, posted a video in response to a comment that was made under one of her videos that said: 'Obesity is not a disability.'…
Jae'lynn's video came after she detailed a 'distressing' experience she had at the Chicago O'Hare Airport as a wheelchair user in another clip.
'I faced a significant challenge when trying to get to baggage claim,' she wrote in that TikTok video, showing a clip of herself in a wheelchair being pushed down the airbridge from the plane to the terminal.
'The only option was to go through a revolving door,' she continued. 'We pressed the button to slow it down for people with disabilities, but as we entered we got stuck.'
Jae'lynn continued saying she was 'claustrophobic' and began to panic.
'[I was] frantically motioning to the staff for help,' she recalled. 'They just stared at me, offering no assistance.'
According to the influencer, someone passing by noticed her struggle and tried to help, but the airport staff remained 'unresponsive.'
'This was my second terrible experience at O'Hare during just one trip,' she claimed.
Jae'lynn called the experience 'frustrating' and 'dehumanizing,' using the hashtag 'fat and disabled' on her video.
At the risk of coming off as crass, the question must be asked: wouldn’t Jae’lynn, from a purely practical perspective, be better off traveling via cargo ship?
Logistics firms have warehouse workers with forklifts, large onboard cargo spaces, etc. — all more fitting for a lady of her volume and mass than commercial airlines.
Plus, I assume, shipping cargo is probably cheaper than Delta tickets.
But that would probably be some kind of hate crime or whatever.
Asian transportation systems, for the record, don’t mollycoddle human-walrus hybrids in the same way.
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Continuing:
'The lack of assistance [highlighted] the necessity for airport staff to treat travelers of all sizes and abilities with the respect and care they deserve,' she concluded the video…
Until recently, Jae'lynn traveled with extra oxygen and required the use of a wheelchair instead of walking longer distances after doctors suspected she suffered a stroke in 2019.
In a recent post to Instagram, the travel influencer lashed out after receiving comments about her weight, telling people there was no correlation between being overweight and disabled…
Earlier in the month, Jae'lynn claimed she was discriminated against by an airport employee who refused to push her in a wheelchair because of her weight.
She recounted her experience with a wheelchair assistant on a jet bridge after a recent landing at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
In a video posted to social media, she claimed that when she tried to deplane the aircraft, the employee assigned to help assist her started to walk away when she realized she was supposed to help the plus-size woman and not one of the smaller passengers.
The travel influencer said that as the employee walked away with the wheelchair she was making comments about her size.
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Sad!
