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fandomsecrets2013-07-09 06:42 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2380 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2380 ⌋
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Re: I read this today and need to rant
(Anonymous) 2013-07-10 02:25 am (UTC)(link)Re: I read this today and need to rant
(Anonymous) 2013-07-10 02:41 am (UTC)(link)I understand that he made the comment I quoted in 2006. Back then, I weighed closer to 400 lbs instead of the 190 I am now. I probably didn't register this story then because I was used to being excluded from everything "cool", "popular", or under size 24-26. Now that I'm smaller and fit an XL instead of an 3 or 4XL, I'm just becoming aware of how completely marginalized I was when I was at my heaviest.
Why would anyone buy from this guy's company? I don't.(If I couldn't buy from them when I was at my largest, they don't get my money now.) And this article, these comments, would be enough to make me avoid Abercrombie on principle alone if I ever did consider purchasing their products. I'm just shocked that this kind of nastiness is unremarkable in our culture.
Re: I read this today and need to rant
(Anonymous) 2013-07-10 02:49 am (UTC)(link)Because they want to be the cool, sexy people who are allowed to buy Abercrombie & Fitch products, not the outsiders who are uncool and undesirable. It's aspirational & a part of the marketing strategy.
Which is terrible, just as terrible in its own way as the nastiness and cruelty in the culture, but I think some measure of this is just human nature.
Re: I read this today and need to rant
(Anonymous) 2013-07-10 04:07 am (UTC)(link)