Why do you feel comfortable embarrassing fat people in public for just existing?

[Anonymous]

Some people are so rude and just blurt stuff out with no forethought that hey, maybe this isn't a good thing to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a size 8 and won’t buy Lululemon because I can’t stand snotty salespeople.

Never been in one are they really like this?! Wtf the company is ok with that?

I’m a size 12 and honestly they’ve always been nice to me (when I go in to buy things for my DD). Maybe because it is pretty obvious that I’m not there for myself (I clearly do not exercise much and am quite a bit older than most in there? 🤣 But hearing these stories makes me not want to shop there anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in a Marshall’s looking for clothes for my teen nieces. Another customer says to me “nothing over here will fit you, the plus sizes are over there”. I told her I was shopping for teenagers. And she still seemed kind of annoyed that I was in “her” area.

What gives? I know I wear a size 14. And if I was buying size 2 skirts for myself…what’s it to you?

Ugh sometimes I just hate people.

Vent over.

Well, the only type of people who would do this are the riff raff who shop at places like <checks notes> Marshall’s.

No offense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism, racism, sexism, misogynism, ageism, tourism, girlism, boyism, spouseism, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism is actually much worse, because we are living in a post-racial society in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism is actually much worse, because we are living in a post-racial society in the U.S.

+1

Can anyone seriously imagine, in 2024, a retail worker saying the “N” word to someone’s face? They’d instantly lose their career (and rightly so).

But OP had sizeism flung right in her face, with no repercussions; no consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many years ago, probably over 10 years now, I walked into a Lululemon looking for shorts to wear to hot yoga (back then, still Bikram, lol). I was a size 14 or so. The salesperson approached me and said in the nastiest voice imaginable "These are workout clothes." After I said "Yes, I know," she said "Do you work out?" -- again, with horrible tone. I left. I wish I could go back in time and lay into her. Y'all should have seen the way she looked at me. Mean as could be. Instead of responding I felt full of shame over my weight and left.

I wish you could go back Pretty Woman-style with a bunch of bags and say "Big Mistake!" - signed another size 14 or so (emphasis on the so )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a size 8 and won’t buy Lululemon because I can’t stand snotty salespeople.

Never been in one are they really like this?! Wtf the company is ok with that?

Not only is the company ok with it, it is part of their company culture. I wouldn't shop there if you paid me.


Lululemon Founder Chip Wilson's Most Outrageous Quotes

1. Sheerness

In an interview on Nov. 5, 2013, Wilson attributed the “sheerness” of Lululemon’s yoga pants to women buying too-small pants or their thighs rubbing together.

“Frankly, some women’s bodies just don’t actually work [for the yoga pants],” Chip Wilson said on Bloomberg TV’s “Street Smart” program. “It’s more really about the rubbing through the thighs, how much pressure is there over a period of time, how much they use it.”

2. Awkward Apology
After the comments about sheerness, in a 50-second apology video posted on YouTube and Lululemon’s Facebook page, Wilson apologized, not to the customers he may have offended, but to his own employees.

“I’m sad for the people at Lululemon who I care so much about that have really had to face the brunt of my actions,” Wilson said. “I take responsibility for all that has occurred and the impact it has had on you. I’m sorry to have put you all through this.”

3. Japanese Pronunciation

When Wilson was CEO, he made comments in 2005 saying that it was funny that Japanese people couldn't pronounce the "L" in Lululemon.

"It's funny to watch them try and say it," he told Canada's National Post Business Magazine when asked about the Japanese pronunciation of his company's name.

Wilson denies saying it, according to the New York Times.

4. Rise of Divorce

In a blog post in 2009 titled "How Lululemon came into being," Wilson wrote, "The pill immediately transformed the sex lives of anyone under the age of 40, particularly teenagers."

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/lululemon-founder-chip-wilsons-outrageous-quotes/story?id=28672323#

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism is actually much worse, because we are living in a post-racial society in the U.S.

+1

Can anyone seriously imagine, in 2024, a retail worker saying the “N” word to someone’s face? They’d instantly lose their career (and rightly so).

But OP had sizeism flung right in her face, with no repercussions; no consequences.

This wasn’t a retail worker. How was the shopper going to have consequences?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism is actually much worse, because we are living in a post-racial society in the U.S.

This is good satire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaming people over their size is a form of oppression.

It is called sizeism and is every bit as atrocious and harmful as racism.

Really it’s not, by carry on with the weird hyperbole

Sizeism is actually much worse, because we are living in a post-racial society in the U.S.

+1

Can anyone seriously imagine, in 2024, a retail worker saying the “N” word to someone’s face? They’d instantly lose their career (and rightly so).

But OP had sizeism flung right in her face, with no repercussions; no consequences.

1. this was not a retail worker
2. the fellow SHOPPER did not call OP a slur, but rather told her to shop elsewhere for "plus sizes." The racist equivalent would be something like a white customer telling a black customer to leave X store/area and go to another instead, which happens all the time. I was at a Whole Foods in suburban Philly once and a store *associate*, not just a random customer, gave me directions to the nearest Aldi.

[Anonymous]

+1

Sizeism is worse than racism in 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1

Sizeism is worse than racism in 2024.

That is BS. It’s easy to say that if you are a white person and/or haven’t experienced racism personally.

[Anonymous]

Because similar to the way we talked about folks not wearing masks or staying indoors during COVID and then getting sick and taxing our healthcare system, overweight people are even worse for the healthcare system. They have a choice to fix it but they don't.