{"id":1470,"date":"2005-04-13T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/new-study-shows-stores-discriminate-against-fat-women-shoppers\/"},"modified":"2005-04-13T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T00:18:15","slug":"new-study-shows-stores-discriminate-against-fat-women-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"New Study Shows Stores Discriminate Against Fat Women Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Bob Hayes<\/a> for the tip.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sales clerks tend to discriminate against shoppers who are obese, according to new study findings.<\/p>\n

Investigators found that when women wore a prosthetic suit designed to make them look obese, they were treated more rudely, and received fewer smiles and less eye contact from sales clerks at a Houston, Texas, shopping mall than when they shopped without the fat suit.<\/p>\n

Sales clerks — almost three-quarters of whom were women — also tended to end interactions with obese shoppers more quickly, and use a negative tone with them.<\/p>\n

Obese shoppers tended to experience more discrimination when they were casually dressed than when they were in professional attire.<\/p>\n

However, when the apparently overweight shoppers sipped a diet soda and said they were trying to lose weight, they were treated just as nicely as when they shopped without their artificial bulk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that the last point suggests that’s what’s going on isn’t irresistable disgust, but instead moral <\/em>disapproval. If the store clerks were simply too overwhelmed with emotion to treat fat women equally, then it wouldn’t make a difference what the fat person says. However, that’s not the case. If a fat woman implicitely agrees to the fat = immorality system by indicating that she is trying to reform her sinful ways (through dieting), then and only then will they be given equal treatment.<\/p>\n

The full article has more<\/a>, including the point that stores are actually losing money due to store employee discrimination.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Interesting discussion related to this study over at Big Fat Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Bob Hayes for the tip. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sales clerks tend to discriminate against shoppers who are obese, according to new study findings. Investigators found that when women wore a prosthetic suit designed to make them … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}