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Woman says she felt fat-shamed at Islands of Adventure ride
WFTV9.com ^ | 3/15/2018 | Jason Kelly , Lauren Seabrook

Posted on 04/04/2018 9:33:12 AM PDT by simpson96

ORLANDO, Fla. - A woman said she felt fat-shamed when she was unable to ride Skull Island: Reign of Kong at Universal's Islands of Adventure.

Angel Morales said she asked workers if she could ride the ride bench with one fewer person so that she wouldn't make anyone sitting beside her feel uncomfortable.

Morales said she felt humiliated when employees declined her request.

The theme park doesn't have weight restrictions, so Morales said she didn't know she couldn't go on the ride until she was about to board it.

Morales said she bought annual passes to the park last year and couldn't wait to check out The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

"(I) couldn't fit on any of the Harry Potter rides because of my weight," she said. "(I) did a lot of bag-holding in Diagon Alley and that kind of thing."(snip)

"It's somewhat humiliating to have to ask for an accommodation because of one's weight -- that you have to put yourself out there and kind of beg to be able to ride and embarrass yourself because of weight," Morales said.

She filed a discrimination complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations. She said overweight people should be a protected class.

"Their interest is getting bodies and getting money and not accommodating paying customers," she said. "That's how I felt."

Morales said she was offered a $100 gift card, dinner and movie tickets, but she doesn't plan to return to the park.

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To: 21twelve

When you go to Disneyland and Ride It’s a Small World, many of the Boats have empty seat rows because large Groups of People want to be seated together.

They don’t stop the boarding process to try and find smaller Groups of People to fill the Bench Seats. They just go to the next Boat.

I’m shocked this Thread is getting so much attention and I seldom have to respond to so many who disagree with my take.


61 posted on 04/04/2018 10:47:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: 21twelve

Sounds to me like the school you attended, particularly the physics teachers screwed up.

The physics here are simple. The safety restraints cannot reliably hold her in the rides because she generates too much inertia.


62 posted on 04/04/2018 10:49:53 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Black Agnes

This whole Thread is suffering from too much overthinking. :)


63 posted on 04/04/2018 10:50:16 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: simpson96
She said overweight people should be a protected class.

Nobody should be a protected class. If you're ashamed of your weight, lose it. Don't make other people suffer around you because you want to feel entitled.
64 posted on 04/04/2018 10:56:31 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Kickass Conservative

Nope.

The ride designers rightfully decided that it would be way cheaper (and not compromise the experience) to give the obese who failed to fit the design specifications that $100 gift card than spend millions more engineering the ride for 400lb people.

Obesity is a choice. Plain and simple.

And I’m currently obese.

This lady wants obesity to be a ‘protected’ class like handicapped or blind or other non choice physical imperfections.

And the boat rides aren’t subject to the same sort of physics as the coaster rides. Worst thing happens on a boat ride is it fails to clear some underwater obstacle or people fall in the water. Coasters coming off the tracks are WAY more dramatic and hurtful. Ask the lawyers which cost the entertainment companies more in the long run, wet people or dead people...


65 posted on 04/04/2018 10:56:56 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

I repeat what I Posted earlier.

This whole Thread is suffering from too much overthinking. :)


66 posted on 04/04/2018 10:58:10 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Nope.

This sort of stuff needs to be nipped in the bud.

And the obese who think physics doesn’t apply to them need a remedial course in that.

Course, I think we’ve established that physics is a hurtful mean racist discriminatory thing. /s


67 posted on 04/04/2018 11:00:02 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: simpson96

Al Bundy’s best insults. Lots of big gals in the shoe store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbBLcZo894


68 posted on 04/04/2018 11:00:49 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: MrEdd

Sounds like the ride manufacturers screwed up in physics too - as there are no weight restrictions. In the article it said she wanted more space - but they didn’t want to spare the seat. I have no idea what the ride is like, but lots of them with a bench seat just have a bar in front of all the people. One 400 pound woman would be the same as me and my brother sitting next to each other.

Now I think its stupid to have fat people get there own set of rights - but I also think its stupid for a business to piss off their customers. But - it’s their business, so they can if they want. Well - they SHOULD be able to turn away who they want.


69 posted on 04/04/2018 11:02:35 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Black Agnes

But physics and reality are racist. Or something.


70 posted on 04/04/2018 11:04:06 AM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: 21twelve; MrEdd

I just clicked on the ride. Folks are seated in a school-bus type thing and drive through the scene on a track - looks like they have special glasses on for some of the effects. Looks more like riding through a scary jungle thing than any type of action/thrill ride.


71 posted on 04/04/2018 11:06:11 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Kickass Conservative

She should have bought two tickets.


72 posted on 04/04/2018 11:06:17 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I’m actually sickened by freepers mocking this woman (and obese people in general) because of her size. Mock her because she’s being a snowflake or because she wants to sue or seeks publicity, but have a little empathy for people with weight problems. Many people can’t just bang out some situps or walk for miles and lose weight, no matter how easy you think that might be.

And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.

That said, it would also have cost her nothing to just get on the stupid bench with her kids and let the last person in the row choose if they want to squeeze in or take another seat. According to the article one man voluntarily gave up his seat so they wouldn’t be squished. On another visit the woman asked the attendant if she could get on with one fewer person in the row and she was refused. She was absolutely able to safely ride the ride if she chose to do so.

In my view this isn’t about this ride but the Harry Potter ones she can’t board. This ride is used as her example because it was a case where the park actively refused her when they could have accepted her request. The other rides were probably such that she couldn’t even fit, so she had no case there, unless they built new rides with larger cars or whatever.


73 posted on 04/04/2018 11:07:05 AM PDT by siberianheat
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To: simpson96

I feel fat shamed and intimidated every time I see a commercials for a Sandals resort. And I’m not fat. Those ads actually drive away “real” people.


74 posted on 04/04/2018 11:08:52 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: siberianheat

“And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.”

How long would the line have been if everyone got their own seat? Why should I have to share if she doesn’t? Did she buy tickets for that whole bench to herself?

She’s not asking for ‘equal treatment’, she wants obesity to be a special class like handicapped or blind or otherwise physically disabled. She wants the airline first class seat for the same price as cattle car. Just because she can’t control her eating.


75 posted on 04/04/2018 11:10:56 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: simpson96

Eat a salad and give up soda.


76 posted on 04/04/2018 11:12:18 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Black Agnes
Airline Seats, Car Interiors and Amusement Park Rides are designed around the “average” size of an Adult.

I am 6'3” and weight 245. Comfort is a rare commodity when it comes to dealing with “average” size accommodations.

77 posted on 04/04/2018 11:14:28 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: albie; mrmeyer; simpson96

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Depending on where she lives, it may be impossible for her to lose weight.

The likely cause: eating food grown in soils depleted in chromium and vanadium.

These two minerals control our cells’ absorbtion of insulin, which is necessary to metabolize glucose.
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78 posted on 04/04/2018 11:18:28 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I’m at the other end of the spectrum. Short and obese.

I don’t expect to be catered to because of my weight.

I can’t help the height. But then neither can anyone else. I didn’t choose to be short.

Obesity is a choice.

It really is.

I was too short for amusement park rides until I was in my late teens. I didn’t whine and complain. It was what it was.

I also had and passed physics. So I understood WHY it was a bad idea for someone of my height to insist on being seated on those rides.

There is a huge (pun intended) movement afoot to make obesity a protected class. Heck no. The end.

This lady wants a seat all to herself (don’t we all!) and wants to insist she’s more special than anyone else just because she’s fat. Nope. Not falling for that one.


79 posted on 04/04/2018 11:19:24 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

>>>How long would the line have been if everyone got their own seat?<<

She didn’t ask for her “own” seat. Quit repeating Facts not in Evidence.

This Thread makes me feel like Pacino in the Godfather.
“Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in”.
LOL


80 posted on 04/04/2018 11:22:26 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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