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College student's outrage after bouncer wouldn't let her dance on bar because she was overweight
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4-29-12

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: bouncer; napl; overweight; ramos
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To: rawhide

Meghan, there are two men here wearing suits and sunglasses who say it’s time to get back in the limo.


161 posted on 04/29/2012 7:25:20 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Fluke redux.

Watch for it.


162 posted on 04/29/2012 11:45:15 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

“Is that Iz in a Tutu”

Stop it!

I love Iz. ;o)

http://vimeo.com/8578344


163 posted on 04/29/2012 11:47:42 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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To: dixiechick2000

Excellent point!

To her no-doubt disappointment, though, I doubt Rush will give her the time-of-day.


164 posted on 04/30/2012 12:21:00 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: rawhide
Perhaps the most hilarious sitcom episode ever aired:

Al Bundy and Fat Chicks

165 posted on 04/30/2012 12:25:33 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ha!

If he does, it will be must lissen radiyo. ;o)


166 posted on 04/30/2012 12:26:36 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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To: rawhide

167 posted on 04/30/2012 12:27:54 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: dixiechick2000

Yes indeed.


168 posted on 04/30/2012 12:36:03 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: rawhide
A social work professor at the University of Iowa told Ramos to return to the bar.

“She told my friends and I to go back and see if the same thing happens and to try to get them to say aloud ‘I am not allowing you up because of your size,’” Ramos said.

On April 14, Ramos returned to the Union Bar with a group of friends. Ramos’ friends, who she said are all thin, were able to get up on the platform easily. But Ramos was blocked from entering, she said.

Ramos asked the bouncer repeatedly why she could not dance on the platform.

“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,” Ramos said.

Ramos approached the Human Rights Commission in Iowa City, but the organization told her they could not do an investigation because size discrimination is not illegal by law, Ramos said.


169 posted on 04/30/2012 12:41:32 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I think I smell a fat girls “movement” getting ready to form.

Thanks a lot for THAT mental image!!!

170 posted on 04/30/2012 6:56:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: rawhide
The incidents, she said, have made her question her worth.

Me, too!

171 posted on 04/30/2012 6:57:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Drew68
She's going to forever be known as the "chick too fat to dance on the bar".

forever ??

15 minutes max.

172 posted on 04/30/2012 6:59:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: svcw

You spelled LAID wrong...


173 posted on 04/30/2012 7:00:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: dfwgator

Mad Cow Disease?

The zombies are homing in!


174 posted on 04/30/2012 7:02:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: CaptainK
Why the need for cruel comments?

I take any bets that say she was NOT running her mouth to begin with.

175 posted on 04/30/2012 7:05:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
If the bar collapsed under her weight she would crawl straight to a lawyer.

Or mash the three that were under it!

176 posted on 04/30/2012 7:08:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
If the bar collapsed under her weight she would crawl straight to a lawyer.

ADA is law, after all.

No; that does NOT stand for

All
Dancers
Allowed

177 posted on 04/30/2012 7:10:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: varyouga
If you don’t like it, change your looks or don’t go to places made for shallow people.

The movie, Shallow Hal captured it well.

After I saw it; I came to realize how shallow I was!

Try changing decades of stupidity in yourself!

178 posted on 04/30/2012 7:15:49 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: rawhide

Takes a lot of guts to have yourself be ridiculed twice.


179 posted on 04/30/2012 7:19:16 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: SamAdams76

Night of the Living __________ (fill in the blank)


180 posted on 04/30/2012 7:21:00 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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