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Top 10 Cars for Fat People

If you’re thinking of buying a new car but are a bit overweight, then you may want to consider our list of the top 10 cars for fat people as a starting point.   Oh sure we could have been a tad more politically correct and laced this post with “obese”, “overweight”, “plus sized”, “big & tall” or perhaps “metabolically challenged” instead of “fat”, but screw political correctness because we could certainly lose more than a few pounds and fat is a relative term anyway. Besides, if you live in America like us then there is a reasonable chance that you technically register as obese, so welcome to the club. Darn you Big Mac!

As you search for your next vehicle you will discover that although cars are progressively becoming larger, (read this article about it), many new cars accommodate fat people about as well as regional commercial jets’ seats do – or in other words not very well.  The list below includes our picks for the best sedans to comfortably accommodate fat people in the front seats and which retail for under $50,000. We opted to limit the top 10 list to sedans since most full size SUVs, pickups and minivans already boast generous interior dimensions, although sedans can be deceptively petite on the inside.   Take for instance the 2003 and older Jaguar XJ series sedans.  Their exteriors registered as full size, while the interiors were rather pint size by comparison and were more on par with a compact cars interior.  Read our list below to see what we think is the best new cars for fat people.

	Year, Make & Model	Front Leg Room	Front Head Room	Front Shoulder Room	Front Hip Room	Averages
	Cadillac XTS	45.8	40.1	57.8	55.1	49.70
	Hyundai Azera	45.5	40.3	58.3	54.6	49. 68
	Chevrolet Impala	45.8	39.9	57.9	54.9	49.63
	Kia Optima	45.5	40	57.3	54.7	49.38
	Ford Fusion	44.3	39.2	57.8	55	49.08
	Dodge Charger/Chrysler 300	41.8	38.6	59.5	56.2	49.03
	Infiniti M37	44	39.1	58.4	54.3	48.95
	Hyundai Genesis	44. 3	38.1	58.3	54.9	48.90
	Lincoln MKS	41.9	39.7	58.6	55.3	48.88
	Ford Taurus	41.9	39	57.9	56.3	48.78

 
*Cars on this list are from 2013-2015 model years.
 

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Why fat people don’t pay for two seats on buses

02/07/2019 at 13:35

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Every time I see very fat people in trains and buses, who occupy one and a half, and sometimes almost two seats. Sometimes there is so little space next to them that you can’t squeeze in there. Tell me why these people do not pay extra for their «overweight»? Doesn’t this infringe on the rights of other passengers?

Katerina Sionchuk, Moscow

Consumer rights lawyer Pavel Shapkin answers:

“In fact, when purchasing a ticket, we buy exactly the fare, without being tied to places. In principle, a person can even lie on a seat in an electric train or, for example, a bus, since it is not written anywhere how much surface area he can occupy. Thus, obese people do not violate the rights of other passengers in any way. Moreover, the adoption of rules according to which full people would buy an additional travel card for themselves is practically impossible, because it is discrimination. No one can oblige a passenger to buy a second ticket if there are no seats as such. By the same logic, should we give a discount to petite people? This is the area of ​​our life where self-regulation takes place. People sit down, controlling themselves with the logic and norms of social behavior.

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• Ekaterina Stepanova

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Published in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper No. 27899 dated February 8, 2019

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“Fat, be ashamed!”: who got in the way of obese women

Why does the concept of “body positivity” still seem alien to many of us? Why are we haunted by excess weight (not our own, but someone else’s) and why do we engage in fat shaming with such rapture?

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Fatshaming is, in fact, bullying people who are overweight (or simply overweight): fatshamers constantly remind overweight people of their weight, publicly accuse them of not wanting to lose weight and openly insult them, calling them “fatty” «fat pigs» and «heaps of fat. » Moreover, the object of ridicule and insults are most often women, not men. This is a serious problem. In the modern world, fat shaming has reached such proportions that in response, the Body Positive movement appeared, the main goal of which is to encourage people to accept someone else’s appearance as it is. But, alas, in our society this idea has not yet found a response. Let’s see why.

«Fat is ugly, I don’t want to look at it»

Not really. Fat is not ugly in itself, fat is considered ugly now. At the same time, everyone knows that this was not always the case: few people have not seen figures of Paleolithic Venuses or reproductions of paintings by masters of the High Renaissance. Our personal criteria for beautiful and ugly are not personal at all, they are based on society’s ideas about the beautiful, and a beautiful body has been a thin body for many decades. It was either just skinny (from Twiggy to «heroin chic») or athletic (from supermodels 90-x to modern phytons), but it was not complete. But times are changing: plus-size models began to appear on the catwalks, actresses with magnificent forms began to be invited to the main roles, but society is still not ready to accept this. Why?

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Because we began to confuse ideal pictures with real life. There is too much visual information around us — information that is not real, invented: pictures perfectly smoothed in photo editors, films with special effects. We very often see beautiful things, so often that some have decided that they have the right not to see what they consider ugly. «Be fat, but don’t show your pictures to anyone, we hate to see it.» And it’s also unpleasant for some to see fat people in tight or open clothes: “Ugh, cover up.” But why, in fact, why? Why not then prohibit people with malocclusion from talking and laughing? And people with crooked or wide noses should wear medical masks — thin, straight noses are in fashion.

But no, only being overweight is an excuse to openly insult people and demand that they not «puff out their fat. » Because…

«Fat is just lazy»

Lazy and weak-willed people, unable to «just pull themselves together and lose weight.» Having attributed to people with great weight the sins of laziness and gluttony, the society went further. Fat people are considered stupid and face discrimination in the areas of education and career: if you are not stupid, then why can’t you figure out how to lose weight? Being overweight is also associated with poor hygiene: since a fat woman is too lazy to go to the gym, then it’s probably too lazy to wash. Thus, society stigmatizes people with great weight, puts a stigma on them. And this, as it were, gives indulgence to the fat-shamers: they do not just insult and humiliate people, they denounce the “terrible” vices of fat people, which means they do an allegedly good deed. Who, if not them, will point out to these zhirobas that they live wrong?

And this problem is not only a problem of excess weight. This is the problem of a society that creates artificial limits so that there is a reason to kick those who do not fit into them. And women are the first candidates for a place outside the box. Because «a woman should.» She must be beautiful, she must take care of herself and her figure — first of all. A typical patriarchy, in which you cannot be a worthless commodity, otherwise you will become a pariah.

“Obesity is not healthy, these people are sick!”

A frankly hypocritical statement: no one, except neophytes from a healthy lifestyle, condemns people who are not keen on physical education. No one is worried about how often strangers do fluorography. No one wants to know how smokers and alcoholics harm their health — until they invade someone else’s space with their smelly smoke and drunken brawls. No one is interested in how long ago the neighbor in the stairwell took a blood test and in what condition his vessels and joints are. But for some reason, the vessels and joints of overweight people are of interest to everyone. Why, it would seem, why? Everyone takes care of their own health, who cares about someone else’s hemorrhoids?

It’s very simple: it’s not a matter of health, it’s a matter of power. Thin people are very fond of telling fat people exactly how they need to eat in order to lose weight, how to be treated in order to lose weight, how to move in order to lose weight. The very fact of being overweight in a fat person seems to turn any thin person into a strict teacher Maryivanna: “Now I will teach you, fatty, to live correctly, and you will listen and obey. Come here, pigs, I will reveal the truth to you. Thus, any person who is unable to achieve success in the chosen field of activity has the opportunity to amuse his sense of self-importance, to assert himself at the expense of another: I am thin, which means I am more successful than a fat man, smarter and generally better. I have been assigned the role of teacher and mentor. And the more aggressive the fatshamer, the more likely it is that the small size of clothes is his only achievement in life. It’s likely just genetic.

Another important point is accusing obese people of promoting an unhealthy lifestyle: “Our children are watching this! They might decide it’s okay to be fat!» Children are generally a universal shield, they can cover anything. Including their own unwillingness to raise these same children at least somehow. Because the habit of a healthy lifestyle as a norm is brought up by a personal parental example. But doing exercises in the morning with children is too hard. It’s easier to stigmatize the fat ones. True, some fat ones are still children, and it is a sin to poison children. But then you can poison their parents who allowed this. “Yes, for sure, it’s their fault, not us at all,” that’s exactly what the Fatshamers think.

«It’s your own fault, how could you let yourself go like that!»

In general, the feeling of guilt about weight as such is imposed on people with a lot of weight by default. The only question is the degree of this guilt. There are those who are not very guilty — these are those who have gained weight due to health problems. A fake has been circulating around the network for a long time that there are allegedly only 5% of such people. This is absolutely not true, but this is a great reason to stigmatize all the fat ones in general: you just got hot and it’s your own fault! This is typical victim blaming. In fact, everyone understands that it is not good to humiliate other people for your own pleasure. But if you make these people guilty, then it’s already possible. After all, they chose this path for themselves, they voluntarily grew fat, which means they must be ready for the role of outcasts. Who does not want to be humiliated, he does not eat in three throats. another indulgence: it was not I who was cruel, it was I who was provoked, they themselves wanted it.

The other side of this coin is hypocritical pity. At the expense of a fat person, you can always be kind: I will tell you how bad it is to be fat, and I will immediately become a good and caring kind person. Thank me! Who else will open your eyes to how you let yourself go?!

“Fat people have no right to happiness”

And here fat shaming turns its ugly face exclusively to us, to women. Because an overweight man has the right to happiness, but a woman does not. At the same time, both camps will attack her. And if men with their valuable opinion on the subject «I wouldn’t blow it!» can be ignored, then women cannot be ignored. Because this is a matter of hierarchy in a patriarchal society: you are fat, and I am not, which means that my status is higher. It would seem, well, rejoice, because the more overweight women, the less competition for status males, who naturally prefer thin ones. Why poison losers, they are not your competitors?

It’s very simple, let’s go back to point 1: beautiful is what society agreed to consider beautiful. If you don’t poison the fat ones, tomorrow they, don’t bring the universe, may be considered beautiful. And this means that all the benefits assigned to the beauties will go to them, and not to you. Because status males give goods.

The second point is the idea that happiness must be earned, preferably through hard work and severe restrictions. Years of plowing in the gym and sitting on chicken breast with buckwheat — and for what? So that some fat woman who has been chewing cakes all her life gets the same piece of happiness? Yes, for what reason? Let me get it first!

But the point here is not at all that only fat people allegedly do not have the right to happiness.