Posted on 11/11/2022 8:41:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
Ella Halikas says a bouncer told her and fellow “curvy” model, Alexa Jay, that they couldn’t follow their friends into The Highlight Room in Hollywood.
“(Alexa) asked him ‘Hey what’s going on? I’m actually with that party you just let in,’ and he said, ‘I know,’ and looked her up and down and said, ‘Not tonight,’” Ella said.
“It was so dehumanizing,” said Alexa. “It was like we were being looked through. If you experienced any type of discrimination like this, you know exactly how horrible and disgusting it feels and we are no longer letting this fly.”
The women believe this problem goes beyond one nightclub.
Halikas says she has received thousands of messages from other plus-sized women sharing similar stories of being turned away from bars and nightclubs.
“One of my plus-sized friends went to a club in New York City and they said, ‘Everyone else can come in,’” said Halikas. “They let in all her thin friends, got to her and said, ‘You can’t get in.’ She asked, ‘Why?’ and he goes, ‘If you want to come in, pay $4,000.”
“It felt like we were alone,” said Halikas. “It felt like we were plucked out of a crowd and I just felt like we need to share this because it’s not about us not getting into the Highlight Room, we don’t care. It’s the bigger picture of how many girls face this every single day. It was discrimination – 100 percent.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Would be nice if there were also one of those warning beepers for when they back up.
Regards,
Or as concrete bollards.
Regards,
Yes. It came to mind because one of the Curvers said “If you experienced any type of discrimination like this, you know exactly how horrible and disgusting it feels and we are no longer letting this fly” (i.e. WE WILL NOY BE IGNORRRRRRRED! lol).
Yep just think of all the shade she can give in the summer and the heat in the winter.
The one on the right looks like an alien mutant.
Those two together could capsize Guam.
“If you want to come in, pay $4,000.”
Seems fair. That’s probably the same thing they were charging the guys to party with her thin friends.
No fatties tonight!
She looks like a Micronesian Sumo wrestler. More carbs, honey.
They have to decorate the bar to sell alcohol to men - it’s their own fault for not being decorative. :)
Government plus business = fascism.
Start your own club, ladies. There are lots of men who dig women in your share of the market.
It's spelled "day-um".
Chunky and fat.
yep
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