Posted on 04/29/2012 9:56:18 AM PDT by rawhide
A 21-year-old woman has accused the bouncers at her local pub of discrimination after she was banned from dancing on the bar because she was told she was too fat.
ABC News reports Jordan Ramos, a student at the University of Iowa, who describes herself as 'plus-sized', says she was with friends at Union Bar in Iowa City last month when she tried to climb onto the bar.
Miss Ramos says she was told to get back on the floor because she 'was not pretty enough' and was 'obviously pregnant'.
ABC reports the bouncer told Miss Ramos the bar was at capacity during a night out on March 3.
She told the network she waited until a few girls stepped off to make room and tried a second time to stand on the platform - but was stopped again.
Miss Ramos said a friend confronted the manager, but he refused to discuss the matter and asked the women to leave.
'There was only one difference: I am a plus-sized individual,' she told ABC.
'The bouncer said "Look, you will never get up on this platform. Go back to the dance floor where you belong."'
She returned to the bar again on April 14, and was again rejected.
'He said, "You’re not pretty enough and you’re pregnant." I said, "I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that I am not pregnant."
'He then looked at my stomach and said, "You obviously are." They knew I was not pregnant; it was there way of calling me fat without having to actually say it,' she said.
Miss Ramos filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, but officials told her they could not investigate because size discrimination is not illegal.
The incidents, she said, have made her question her worth.
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TOO funny, central va.
LOL
She is a 2 at 10 and a 10 at 2.
SHE’d make a good SS chaprone!
Looks like she’s had one drink too many.
That was pretty funny.
Woman: “How DARE you say that to my FACE!”
Bundy: “Well, I’d say it to your backside, but my car’s only got a half tank of gas.”
ROTFLMAO!!
WTH is wrong with you? Because you don't find her attractive she can't do something everyone else is doing? Really? What planet do you live on? Who else do you discriminate against?
I don’t understand all the comments siding with the rude employees at the bar. She was just trying to have fun at a college hangout.She wasn’t asking to be allowed to participate in an activity that was barred to all. She was just trying to do what others were allowed to do.
I know fat bottomed girls make the rockin’ world go ‘round, but I think I’ll pass on this one...
Well trying to climb up on the bar fairly well settles the issue.
It was probably just a safety issue, there probably was not enough reinforcement supporting the bar and they did not want the poor girl to fall through the bar or fall on a paying patron.
I am absolutely disgusted by the comments on this thread. Only pretty skinny people have rights apparently. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Do you also discriminate against old people, black people, people with disabilities? Hang your heads in shame.
So why didn’t they just tell her she appeared too tipsy? Why the need for cruel comments? Is that how to run a business?
I agree that she should not have been told she is not pretty enough. But excluding people based on an arbitrary decision about their looks seems to be the accepted and legal, if cold, standard at many nightclubs.
Freepers showing their true colors.........disgusting behavior.
Anti-Viagra
Fun to ride, but you don’t want your friends to see you on one.
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