Originally Posted by
mooper
I think his point was simply that fat body parts in his space annoy him more than small body parts on a nearby wall. ...
Ahhhhh. ANY body parts in my space annoy me, like an arm-flailing twitching sleeper or a 7-foot person who can't get an exit row seat and knees me in the back. But one of my hot buttons is characterizing all large people as "voluntary overeaters" since the 7-footer could also have "done something" to stop growing, so his height is in some way also voluntary. And if it's voluntary, that carries with it the stigma of "so they shouldn't have carried on with that behavior because it's visually unappealing."
Being adjacent to a person of size who can't fit in one seat width is a bit different than the phrase "around fat people" which I took to mean "have to look at them across the aisle." YMMV.