Outcry after nightclub bounces fat women

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Outcry after nightclub bounces fat women

By David Brown
July 31, 2008 12:25am



A NIGHTCLUB that barred fat women has backed down after international protests and claims that it was guilty of discrimination.

The Havana nightclub in St Helier, Jersey, was accused of barring larger women while admitting men of similar size.

Almost 1000 people have joined an internet-based campaign calling for a boycott of the club and a protest on Friday night. More than 20 women are reported to be preparing to give statements to police claiming they suffered discrimination, The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/) reports.

Police were called to the club on Saturday night to prevent public disorder after Martin Sayers, the club's manager, and his door staff started turning away larger women.

Georgina Mason, 23, told the Jersey Evening Post (http://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/): "About five or six or us got to Havana at about 11.30pm and the bouncers said we were not allowed in because we were too big.

"I told them not to be ridiculous and asked to speak to the manager. When the manager came out he would not look at me directly but said they had received many complaints about fat people and he told me, 'Go and lose some weight before you can come in - fat people are bad for business'."

Witness Jemma Warner said: "The man himself was far, far away from what we might call male perfection, making the situation somewhat ironic."

Yesterday Mr Sayers, who admitted being overweight himself, announced that the ban had been dropped.

The Times
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24105393-401,00.html

I thought this was pretty interesting.
A slogan at Nandos in Australia is "No fat chicks" (they're a chicken place, I don't know if they exist outside Australia), and I've got to say, I've always found it pretty offensive.
Fat girls got a lot of shit at my old school, and this story really comes as no surprise. Overweight women are seen as 'disgusting', whereas men being fat seems to be a lot more acceptable.

Comments?
(Yeah, by the way I couldn't turn italics off. The little button's not working!! :()

[RHIZOMES]

Well any real capitalist would say it's their right since it's their private property. :lol::lol::lol:

[disobey]

A slogan at Nandos in Australia is "No fat chicks"...

Shocking.

We have Nando's here also, though the good news is it is positively full of overweight people. Their food isn't that healthy you see. Kind of ironic, make your customer base obese and then don't let them come back - that's not good capitalism?

[Glenn Beck]

"No fat chicks" I wonder what exactly their definition of "fat" is? :rolleyes:
I'd be willing to wager that at least a large proportion of these women were within a healthy BMI range and not medically overweight.

It's absolutely perverse how modern capitalist marketing makes a fetish out of having a thin frame and being fit (which are confused for each-other) while simultaneously making obesity an epidemic.

[BobKKKindle$]

This is an example of how the idea of someone being "fat" (large in a way that is not seen as aesthetically appealing, given the way society expects people to present themselves in conformity with the images that are presented to them by the bourgeois media) has different implications depending on the sex of the person - a fat man is not seen in the same way as a fat woman, and is not subject to the same pressure to attain a slim figure or feel ashamed of the size of their body, because male "fatness" has different cultural associations.

[communard resolution]

It's absolutely perverse how modern capitalist marketing makes a fetish out of having a thin frame and being fit (which are confused for each-other) while simultaneously making obesity an epidemic.

If you have a look into right-wing UK publications (esp tabloids), you'll find yourself confronted with borderline fascist hysteria about "stick-thin, anorexic models" and how they should be banned from public display. This hysteria is directed exclusively against thin women, and an idealized image of "real women" (= traditionally feminine, curvy) is conveyed. So it really depends, I wouldn't necessarily equate the "fetish for having a thin frame" with "modern capitalism".

I do agree that people are obsessed with things that are none of their business (e.g. other people's weight) and have the insane wish of wanting to regulate these.