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One of the most frustrating aspects about curve-o-phobia is not just how it results in eating disorders and other desperately serious matters, but also how it can ruin a girl's quality of life even when she's trying to do something fun.

I still remember the case of pretty Ashley Kauffman, who attended an American Idol taping, only to be ejected from her front-row seat because she was deemed too curvy to appear on TV.

Now a news story out of Iowa is showing how that kind of anti-plus prejudice permeates even local entertainment.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...-discrimination

The case in a nutshell:


The article comes with a picture of Miss Ramos. She's certainly "pretty enough," but she's also curvy, which is really what made the guards discriminate against her:



Now, it's true that there are more important things in the world than being able to dance on a platform at a bar, but that's not the point. The point is, she wanted to enjoy herself the way the underweight girls do, and the pervasive prejudice against curves stopped her.

Plus, it gets worse. This story has been picked up by the Daily Mail and ABC News, which filed the following report:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...ination-at-bar/

It adds an important extra wrinkle to the story:


And that is simply unjust. Whatever one thinks of Human Rights Commissions in general and their abuses, the bottom line is that if discrimination is illegal, then all discrimination must be illegal, including size discrimination. To say that some forms of discrimination are legal and others are not is unfair and immoral.

Furthermore, many cases of so-called "discrimination" are anything but, and are cases where complainants assert discrimination where none exists, and where exclusion happens for other reasons, justifiable ones, such as an absence of talent or ability. But in this case, the discrimination is clear and undeniable.

Once and for all, anti-plus bigotry must be ended. Now.

Clay

My first guess is the security guard has never seen or heard about Chloe Agnew, then he would understand that curvy girls are beautiful.

In any case, this is beyond immoral. This is a direct violation to the United States Constitution and our very right to freedom of expression, which is inexcusable. This must be stopped immediately.