Teenage Chick Told She Was Too Fat To Shop At Clothing Store
Daily Mail – An Oregon teen was celebrating her birthday Saturday with a mall shopping trip when an employee at a clothing store told her to leave because she was ‘too big’. Shelby Buster told KEZI that she was shopping with a friend at the rue21 clothing store at the Valley River Center mall in Eugene, Oregon when she was discriminated against for her weight. Shelby says she was hoping to buy some perfume with birthday money, when a store employee came up to her and said: ‘Hey, you’re too big to be in this store, I need you to leave.’ Her friend continued to check out before the two returned to the food court and told Shelby’s mom, Marge Wood-Buster, what happened. Mrs Wood-Buster walked back to the store to complain, at which point one of the employees apologized. After the event, Shelby posted on the company’s Facebook page, complaining about the incident. The company commented on her post and said they were ‘really sorry to hear this’ and that the employee’s comment was ‘completely unacceptable’. They asked Shelby to private message them so they could discuss the incident further. After her story was broadcast on KEZI, more people got on the company’s Facebook page to complain about the incident, many saying that they would never shop at the store again.
The most important thing in this world is self awareness. The day you lose sight of who you are and how the world works, thats when you start embarrassing yourself. Take me for instance. I’m going down a dark, dark path. I’m getting fatter by the second. I just ate a black and white cookie as I wrote this. I know that soon enough, I’m gonna be a fat person. I know everyone already calls me fat, but I’m not yet. I’m skinny fat now – one day I’ll be straight up fat fat. And when that sad day comes, I’ll recognize it. I’ll understand what I’ve become and if I’m shopping for clothes in Banana Republic and someone tells me I’m too fat the shop there, I’ll tuck my tail between my fat ass thighs, apologize for being fat, apologize for hurting their brand, and I’ll go home and order clothes online. Because I’m self aware and I understand how the world works. I let myself get fat – the world doesn’t like fat people – ipso facto the world doesn’t like me. And thats nobody’s fault but my own.
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You can blame genetics. You can blame the media. You can blame Hollywood or bullying or whatever you want. And yes, its mean as fuck to say that to a 14 year old girl. But at the end of the day its a necessary lesson to learn that the world don’t like you if you’re fat.