I touched on TLC’s new show “Big Sexy” a little bit yesterday, but it merits follow-up now that I’ve got video. The show focuses on five plus-sized women working in the fashion industry (from stylist to designer to model). Apparently, the show isn’t without heart or intelligence — a surprising move for TLC — but I couldn’t help but be turned off by this scene, in which four of the women try to attend a fashion show after-party, only to face “unfair” treatment by bouncers. Skinny, attractive women are allowed to jump the line and get in for free, while the heavy women must wait in line before being told they must pay $30 to enter the club. And the “Big Sexy” women express shock and outrage at this as if it’s their first day being fat. Seriously, it’s a New York fashion week after-party at a fancy club. What kind of treatment was this woman expecting?
None of this is to say that it’s wrong or bad to be overweight, and I think the fashion industry’s demand for too-skinny models is idiotic. But let’s be aware of who we are and what the world is. Hey, my childhood dream was to be a wide receiver for the Seahawks, but I don’t spend my summers getting turned away from NFL training camps and then bemoaning pro football’s unrealistic demands for strength and physical talent.
Bouncers are dicks to everyone who isn’t a sexy woman. Get over yourselves.
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I’ve heard people on talk radio say, “the last form of prejudice in America is against fat people.” That statement infuriates me.
She knows that she doesn’t need a helmet to eat at the trough, right?
Really, I wouldn’t feel too bad about that. The majority of the fashion industry treats anyone bigger than a size 2 like Fatty McGoo.
I was in the waiting room of my old corporate office when they were auditioning models for an ad campaign, and it was kind of depressing. I’m not saying we should demonize skinny women or anything, but it’d be nice to see something between super-skinny and big.
The bouncer was just doing his job. Protecting the buffet.
It’s not “the last form of prejudice”, it’s “the last ACCEPTABLE form of prejudice”. It’s not socially acceptable to be prejudicial against other races, religions, or sexual orientations, but if you’re overweight, it’s okay to be mocked, put down, and treated differently. It’s okay to be the butt of jokes. I’m not saying it’s the same as other prejudices, it can’t compare to the civil rights movements and African Americans’ fight for equality. But it is a more subtle, acceptable way to treat a group of people unfairly.
Usually the rider wears the helmet and not the horse.
What are they bitching about? That bouncer just saved them $30. $30 can buy you a lot of ice cream and snacks.
Maybe it wasn’t the helmet fatty’s fatness that kept her out of the party, but rather that she looks like the fucking undead. The obese undead. Obviously a fairy successful brain eater. Or a mime. People fucking hate mimes.
Overweight people consume a disproportionate share of this country’s natural resources, including food, fuel, oxygen, elbow room, and condiments. So I agree with Coach that it’s acceptable to discriminate against them.
since their airline tickets cost the same and yet they burn up more fuel than me… lets call it a push.
It’s not wrong to be overweight. But it is bad. Put down the sausage and walk a bit, fatty.
Likelihood of those chicks getting into the club….slim to none. Likelihood of them going home and making changes to their lifestyle to promote a healthier way of living? Fat chance.
As a former bouncer, let me just say that it’s also fun to be a dick to attractive women. It’s like telling an entitled kid that there’s no Santa Claus, except less wrong.
She looks like John Candy when he was in drag in “Armed and Dangerous.”
thats a huge bitch
For some reason, those girls give me the impression that if they were to go to a male strip club, they would be the first to boo a male stripper away if he didn’t have “the look.”
Also, considering it was some model after party, them having to pay $30 to get to mingle with people in the industry that they aspire to be in, is kind of a good deal.
I used to work as a bouncer, too, Mo Charlo, and you’re completely right.
One night, I refused to let this incredibly hot chick into the bar. She was too drunk — another girl had crashed through a glass table top the night before, and fuck me if I was dealing with that shit again. Getting blocked at the door stunned her, and she shouted out in indignation, “Well! We’ll just take our business somewhere else!” I did a slow look at the line of thirty people behind her, a slow glance over my shoulder to the absolutely packed room inside and said, “Yeah, princess, I think we’ll manage.”
Humans NEED to hate……
…that’s why fat broads exist….
wah wah wah…
@Otto, I was thinking more like Divine from a John Waters movie.
“This is what it sounds like,
When really fat doves cry.”
…did they let any fat GUYS in?
….or were they all at home in their (mother’s) basements…?
I think the obesity epidemic is solely the fault of…generic dudes like us.
Seriously, if any of you were drunk and horny enough, and your friends weren’t around and all the hot girls were ignoring you…can you honestly say there’s a 100% chance you wouldn’t hit that?
I can’t. And I’m not proud of that.
Next time, just tell ‘em you’re Khloe Kardashian.
It only took me 13 seconds to hate these broads. Can anyone beat 13 seconds?
I always let in a few durnk fat chicks when I was on the door. I mean they were grateful and would blow me behind the one-way glass in the crows nest at closing time. Ah youth.
*durnk Hee.
*drunk
The fashion industry does seriously need to go F itself though. I went to buy some clothes from this “fancy” line out of L.A. and I was going to be an Extra Large in it. I am in shape and a size six. I could’ve stabbed someone in that moment. That’s ridiculous. (I’m usually a small in normal clothes, for those who might not realize how retarded that is.)
But having said that, those girls are lying through their teeth if they say that’s not happened to them before. They didn’t wake up fat that morning. They know what they’re getting into going into fashion. Suck it up.
How many Chaz Bono posts are you going to do????
One for Honk, please.
As a healthy, slim, moderately attractive (read: not horrifyingly ugly) male, I can’t pretend to know what these ladies go through on a daily basis.
But I’d say it’s at least one quart of ice cream, maybe two.
This is why the bouncers at the door should not wear ‘security’ t-shirts, but rather ‘no fatties’ t-shirts. It would have eliminated this entire altercation.
Someone on the internet once called obesity, ““the last ACCEPTABLE form of prejudice” and it still infuriates me.
When did people start thinking that the fashion industry was somehow analogous to normal society? Yes, the fashion industry caters to rail-thin models. Why? Two reasons – one, it’s run mostly by gay dudes, and two – as I heard one person once say and thus take it as gospel – rail thin chicks make the clothes stand out. They’re basically just a hanger.
Normal guys like tits, and hips, and everything else. Normal guys also don’t give a shit about fashion. So whenever I hear the retarded rhetoric about society putting thin girls up on a pedestal…. please. The fashion industry does not speak for society as a whole.
But no one likes fatties either. Hey, Snuffy, you’re disgusting and unhealthy; the fact that you’re a “normal girl” is a sad statement about health in America, not a statement about fashion.
@Bobman; with the exception of when titties poop out on the catwalk.
Is she going for the “husky goth” look?
In regard to prejudice towards fat people compared to racial prejudice: Whatever ethnicity you’re born into is out of your control. The type of “food”, amount of said food you put in your mouth, and little to no exercise you’re not doing everyday, is.
Some are genetically disposed to it; but most are fatties.
maybe the bouncers didn’t want them inside because one of them looks like a jockey designed by tim burton…just a thought…
Moose, clearly you’ve never seen a titty poop out before – it’s a chilling experience.
My first thought was Prince Poppycock’s dark twin on AGT!
Just because these ladies should expect to be discriminated against for being fat, doesn’t mean that they don’t have the right to be upset over it. I don’t think they should’ve waited around like that though. It’s a waste of time to be bothered with that type of humiliation.
I think that was so D’Estaing upon wonted to kick someone as for yall
She looks like a gothic “Mimi” from the Drew Carrey show.
I can only feel sorry for people with phobias toward over weight people. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2004 and undergoing internal & external radiation & kemotherapy & 2 surgeries. I went from a average size, body building, 42 year old (who in recovery was told that she had an athletic heart) to struggling with low energy, swelling in the limbs and with weight. I have a hard time feeling good about myself often finding myself depressed. It’s not because I want to be over weight. I consume approximately 750 calories a day, sometimes I wish all narrow minded people would have the opportunity to go through what I went through, maybe then they would love people for who they are and not how they look. I watched “Big Sexy” last night and I think that these ladies were beautiful, fun, plus sized women. I would like to know who decided what makes for a perfect person. Stop judging people and open your minds and your hearts to others, you won’t be sorry that you did.
You ruined it for me !