Too Fat for Clubbing?

What a awful thing to do mind you there is fatism in the word some people are unbelievable mind you there loss.

This night club should be boycotted by its customers.
Today they don't let fat girls to get in, tomorrow they will decide that red heads aren't spending enough money on drinks.

This isn't exactly news--clubs have always discriminated on appearance (weight, age, clothes, "beauty", social status, etc.). Personally, I don't get why anyone, regardless of appearance, would want to stand in line and pay an outrageous cover charge for the privilege of buying overpriced drinks and attempting to scream conversations to your friends over crummy techno music. Let them have their pretty-only policy.

I too am not very surprised at this. Most clubs will look you up and down and decide if they want to let you in. You might be too fat, not wearing enough makeup, or not wearing a short enough skirt, but people always get denied. As much as it sucks when all your friends get in and you don't (believe me, I've been there), eventually it happens to everyone - you just have to laugh it off and go somewhere else. It's their right to decide who they want in and who they want out.

that's just as bad as being denied a flight for being too heavy. its rediculous and embarrassing. i just can't believe its because people complained about fat girls. its because woman are not discriminant. if we were, then there would be no one but women at bars, according to this story.

I have no problem with this. If you want to talk about unfair, we can also discuss why men often pay cover charges and women don't.

The best solution is to just avoid going to these ridiculous places altogether. Go to a good bar instead where you can actually have a conversation.

It's one club. Go to another. If you can't get into any of them, start your own.

Simple as that.

This isn't news to me either. As someone else said, clubs will discriminate based on if you're "too old," not pretty enough, not thin enough, whatever.
I'd rather go to a bar and skip the whole club scene altogether. So unappealing to me.

This seems like a terrible thing to do. If I owned a business I can't imagine excluding people from entering like this.

I can understand why the manager had such a policy - good business must not be the only reason, I believe. I wonder why those protested for.

Yes, it's unfair. But we all know that life is not fair - so get used to it. (as said by Bill Gates recently on his speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. It's the first rule he mentioned-Life is not fair-get used to it! And the second is The world won't care about your self-esteem.

The barred women should have gone back to high school dan listened to Gate's speech. :)

That is really sad! Like others, however, if you look at the business side...not to be sexist, but guys often seem to value the looks of women over actually getting to know them. Well, I don't mean ALL guys, but definitely the types that frequent nightclubs. They want these seedy guys to come one, come all to spend, and one way to get that is sex appeal.

This is why the bar/club scene is a totally incompletely way of meeting new people. It's not about forming new relationships, it's about sex.

I am having a hard time to compare this with not accepting people based on the outfit. There more cases where you have to dress to the occassion. For those who are married, would you like to see your maid of honor or best men in flip flops ?

Also, the fact that men at the same weight are being accepted don't mean much to me either because if they weren't, that would have been equally wrong and couldn't justify this action.

As a last note; I think these kind of desicions are driven by the demand rather then evil spirited business owners. Why would a club executive not want heavy set women in her club? Most likely because she assumes that their presence will make the club scene less attractive for other prospect guests. Hmm, I wonder where she gets that idea? Of course they have a responsibility to make a desicion that doesn't violate any rights, but, to me, the underlying issue is that the demand (from the clubbers) is in support of such an action. Thank God there are still sensible people that protest this.

"Bad for business"? Fat people order just as much drinks as other people. (Actually, probably more.)

What a horrible policy. Even if people don't boycott that club, they'll slowly lose customers.

heck. i guess this bar doesnt sell overpriced food along with the overpriced drinks or fat people would be welcome.

Ugh.. that makes me cringe.

Why is an Australian woman talking to the Jersey Evening Post about a low key domestic issue? Has this really been reported properly?

The reason that fat men are aloud to enter is because they usually consume a lot and that means $$$$$

it sucks. it's wrong. but it happens, and will continue happening. the fact that people, especially women, are judged at least partially based on our appearance is a harsh fact of life. unfortunately, gaining entrance into a club is not a right, and the owners have every right to select their patrons based on any criteria, no matter how arbitrary or repugnant they might seem. the heavy patrons can either lose weight or booze somewhere else.

It really isn't unfair because club admission is well-known to be all about appearances and social status. I am a thin male (due to adherence to a low-cal vegetarian diet) and am quite certain I am too ugly and plain to get into any high-status club.
As far as boycotting them, it will backfire. They are rightfully concerned that if they get a rep as a fatchick's club, their rankings will drop amongst the hip and beautiful society and the bigspending males that accompany them. A boycott will just draw attention to the club and give them positive endorsement from the people they want to attract.

Thats kind of foul but turn it into a positive. Use the terrible incident as motivation to loose some weight and look a little sexier. **I'm not defending the discriminatory practice** I would just like to see people take responsibility for themselves so they don't continue to be in these types of situations.

Good! About time someone stopping letting the fat and ugly in!

And the most ironic thing of all is the owner himself is overweight!

Sorry, but the whole thing is a complete joke.

Around where I live, there aren't many nightclubs. Mostly, people just go to bars to drink. Or they go to the strip joints and drink. I will say that if they ever discriminated against fat people, they would have no business. Seriously, whenever I go to bars, I am probably one of the only non-college-aged woman there that is a normal weight. Most of the other women are stuffed into too-tight jeans and are wearing too-tight tops and are just spilling out everywhere. I don't get how discriminating against fat customers would be bad for business...like other posters said, fat people buy just as many drinks as anyone else. Maybe they won't go home with as hot of a guy/girl as a thinner/more in-shape person, but how is that any of the club's business?

It's amazing that we tell children never to judge a book by it's cover and yet, adults do it constantly.

I just wrote about this incredibly rude thing that happened to my friend when she was out at a bar last night-- I thought you'd appreciate it-- you won't believe it (or maybe you would!) Would love your thoughts.

http://kissmyassets.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/rudest-thing-said-about-your-body-body-image-slams-by-girls/

Anyway, I guess that's why we need to keep writing about this stuff and talking about this stuff. You just can't make this stuff up, can you?

Dr. Robyn

I think that it's good to exclude overweight women from nightclubs. There is nothing that ruins a good time out like a fat woman who bugs you all night and won't take no for an answer. I've had this happen quite a few times and it's very annoying.