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I found this ironic.
I don't need research into the issue, as I'm sure I did at least half of whatever got me banned. I just wanted to point out the irony, is all.
that’s bullshit design
We were not designed: we evolved into something that will survive in its current environment just long enough to reproduce, for a number of different environments and despite a number of antagonistic factors.
The fact we generate heat is a really minor issue, in the grand scheme of things, that evolution didn't fix. Were we endothermic instead, for instance, we'd still need to find or create areas of better environmental comfort from hour to hour or day to day. Our fix for the necessity of creating surplus heat through our metabolism or exertion is to sweat. It's our heat sink. It's enabled us to run hotter glucose-driven brains to figure things out better and, thus, out-compete lizards and bears and badgers.
You can hate it, but you do need to understand it's unavoidable -- but it can be minimized, and that is how you cope with it. But I understand the frustration: sweating can really suck sometimes. Sometimes, though - and this is the ironic part - sweating from wild exertion can feel amazing. I bet it's from the endorphins or whatever, and that the sweating is only correlative, but still, good times.
I'm 5-11 and the rare times I fly I go for the upgrade just to keep the rage at bay. I feel for David as his experience must only be excruciating.
The last time I flew home and couldn't get the Bump was so challenging, with some fucking kid kicking my seat constantly (probably out of boredom. I get it, but there are options). After a few escalating glances at his parent, I did consider asking whether he was going to police his child or whether I need to teach him some words I learned in the army so he could repeat them at school. Just then, we got the "tray table" announcement, though, and the child had other things to focus on.