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Fat Shaming Plates or Political Correctness Run Amok?
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Theoldguy1
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You may have seen Macy's ended up taking these plates off their shelves after people criticized them as fat shaming.
Full article:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/macys-plates-mom-jeans-trnd/index.html
Any thoughts?
Full article:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/macys-plates-mom-jeans-trnd/index.html
Any thoughts?
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I think society is becoming overly sensitive about too many things, to be fair. Just seems like a little jokey humour plate to me.40
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Meh. People are chronically offended. I personally don't find this offensive (yes, I'm fat), and I suspect more than half of the loud internet voices who are virtue signaling don't really find this offensive either. I feel bad for businesses sometimes.24
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It's not offensive but it's not really correct......I know lots of moms who are smokin hot!!11
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Much ado about nothing....9
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I wouldn't call it fat shaming, but I think it's a bad image for people who are already prone to undereating. You can have a whole plate of food and still wear skinny jeans - you don't have to - and shouldn't - starve yourself.27
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Please do not look at this if you're easily offended
https://touch.adverts.ie/healthcare/world-slimming-novelty-portion-control-weight-loss-diet-plate-watcher/1444846821 -
It doesn't offend me, but it does annoy me. Purely because it's so facile and wrong. The style of jeans you can wear has very little to do with size, and a lot to do with shape.
Anyone trying to serve me off one of those plates would have to endure an hour-long rant about why I can never find jeans to fit, whatever the number my scales show.27 -
Plus what if you're eating a "mom jeans" portion of salad vs a "skinny jeans" portion of lard. Just saying.17
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It doesn't offend me, but it's also not particularly funny or clever and it doesn't actually make sense - wouldn't you rather wear your "favourite jeans" over your skinny jeans?24
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They clearly haven't seen my dinners during weight loss phase. Usually involves one large plate and a bowl (I eat a LOT of vegetables - big volume eater).6
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Rather than fat shaming I find it more problematic that these support the all-or-nothing mindset propped up by the diet/fitness industry that being overly restrictive is the only way to be skinny and therefore only way to be happy.20
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Thing is my skinny jeans, favourite jeans and mom jeans are all the same pair...24
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Its a joke, not a fitness plan. To take it serious or even pretend to be offended is what the real issue is.15
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Brilliant marketing.6
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Just another group of people looking for an excuse to be offended.16
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i wanna see the dad bod beer mug...31
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Brilliant marketing.
Unfortunately, it wasn't an attempt to rile up the crowds for the sake of marketing, they really did think they were making a light-hearted joke to hint at a real issue (portion control) without being too serious. They pulled them off the shelves as soon as people started complaining.2 -
i think i would have less issues if it were equally marketed towards men as women, but it wasn't and there is where i have issue with - its potentially exploiting a vulnerabilty that many women have about body image to make a buck (FWIW - i eat about the same amount as mom jeans but def. don't need them)11
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Mom jeans come in all sizes and fit differently than skinny jeans, which comes in all sizes too, so this was an EPIC fail at humor and anything else.2
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deannalfisher wrote: »i think i would have less issues if it were equally marketed towards men as women, but it wasn't and there is where i have issue with - its potentially exploiting a vulnerabilty that many women have about body image to make a buck (FWIW - i eat about the same amount as mom jeans but def. don't need them)
It's part of a collection with the same design. There was another plate in the collection that had something about men in it.3
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