peer pressure

Today I learned by checking various links at Fark that we can reverse the obesity epidemic with a healthy dose of peer pressure. The theory was put forth by a newspaper columnist who observed that British people are porkers, Europeans aren't, and Europeans are way less accepting of obesity than the British. She allowed as how there are some medical conditions that cause people to gain weight, but the majority of the fatties are just hogs who should be taken to task, which brings us to the story about Southwest Airlines upsetting an obese man by making him buy an extra seat to accommodate his girth. He has since lost 50 pounds to avoid further humiliation, thus demonstrating that peer pressure is, in fact, quite effective.

Since Southwest has also begun reigning in hot young ladies' tendency to exhibit exorbitant amounts of flesh, we could take this to mean that we should all turn to Southwest to heal the screwinesses of society, except they don't fly into Atlanta, which had to pass its own ordinance outlawing saggy pants. They don't fly into Minneapolis, either, so they're missing the boat on Senatorial bathroom footsie, too.

Maybe they just need to fly into more cities.