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London flagship store, many viewed it as an important step in inclusivity for a major activewear brand. But The Telegraph’s Tanya Gold begged to differ. In a contentious opinion piece titled, “Obese mannequins are selling women a dangerous lie,” she attacked the concept.
“She is immense, gargantuan, vast. She heaves with fat,” Gold wrote in the op-ed. “She is, in every measure, obese, and she is not readying herself for a run in her shiny Nike gear. She cannot run. She is more likely, pre-diabetic and on her way to hip replacement.”
How does she know a fat person isn't getting ready to go for a run? I see heavy people run pretty regularly and if they keep it up long enough, they won't be so heavy. I ran a 15 mile race 4 weeks ago and there were quite a few heavy people there and they finished the race, something a lot of the thin people whining about this type of stuff couldn't do.
I go to the gym early 5 days per week and there are at least a few heavier women(and men) that I see working out much harder than a lot of the other people that lollygag on a cardio machine for half an hour reading the paper. Guess what? They wear workout clothes to the gym that they buy from stores while shopping. A brand is advertising products directly to them. Sounds like freedom to me...apparently its a problem to others.
Did you know that bigger people exercise too? Is it foreign to you? Did you know that exercising is a way to lose the weight that was gained? Would you prefer a larger person just not even attempt to lose weight?
The normalization of behavior which is unhealthy is typically liberal. What liberals have never learned is that you can do what you want, but you cannot escape the negative consequences of your behavior - the two go together. If you're fat, fine, but don't expect it to be normalized as natural and regular. The fat lobby has been very effective at the job it does.
The normalization of behavior which is unhealthy is typically liberal. What liberals have never learned is that you can do what you want, but you cannot escape the negative consequences of your behavior - the two go together. If you're fat, fine, but don't expect it to be normalized as natural and regular. The fat lobby has been very effective at the job it does.
Um, this is a company marketing workout clothing to people who should be exercising. Nike promoting clothes for fat people to work out is unhealthy behavior? Buying workout clothes as a fat person is attempting to escape negative consequences?
They're ridiculous, too. A store displaying attire on a "plus- size" mannequin is no more an endorsement of obesity than selling the damn plus-size clothing is.
They're in the business of selling attire, not making medical and health pronouncements. It makes perfect sense to choose to display clothing of various sizes on mannequins of various sizes.
Nike's was the subject of a recent Court Case going in relation to paying women less and Nike has also admitted to cutting pregnant athletes performance related pay. So it seems Nike can talk the snowflake talk but can't walk the walk, because in reality it's just another greedy global corporation, whose real interest is in virtue signalling as part of advertyising in order to increase their profits.
The obese must be properly outraged because the article was written by a woman who has suffered weight issues all her life.
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