Yes, you read right: “Fat Girl Costumes.”
I don’t care for euphemisms generally, but there is no way “fat girl’ can be excused as anything but denigrating and disrespectful.
Once Walmart was deluged with protests and slams via social media after this appeared on its website this morning, it edited the page, now re-worded to “Women’s Plus Size Halloween Costumes,” and announced,
‘This never should have been on our site. It is unacceptable, and we apologize.”
Unaddressed are body-image issues. Most of the models shown in costume are indeed on the endomorphic side, but if Walmart calls this a fat girl…
…who isn’t?
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Source: Daily Mail
Ethics Alarms 
If that “fat girl” shows up on my doorstep, she’ll get my full Halloween Hospitality!
It only got one star. Don’t expect to see a lot of these fat female vampires to show up at your door.
A man can always dream!
I don’t care for euphemisms either. Emotional eating may have helped me survive years of depression, but the result is that I am, yes, fat. I don’t really think of ‘plus-size’ as a euphemism, however – at least it’s not ‘junoesque.’ At any rate, I’m very much a woman, not a girl, and a human being with feelings at that, and anyone who calls me ‘fat girl’ is going to get the verbal equivalent of a knuckle sandwich – or at least, NOT get any of my money. What’s next, Walmart, corporate sponsorship of that awful ‘People of Walmart’ site?
I really hope more comes out on this.
It’s always interesting to see where in any organizational failure, the failure starts, and then one can study the number of people the failure got past, the number of people who contributed to the failure, and ultimately the originating point of the culture or lack of supervision that encouraged this.
Anyone else noticed “Free shipping on orders over $50.00” and then looked at the price points? 25.19-29.97, 49.97, 41.52-49.97, 22.53-24.99. There are a whole lot of ways to even buy two and still be pennies away from $50.00. Marketing trickery.
As much of a Free Market acolyte that I am and believe in a business’s private discretions, I am kind of a fan of requiring FULL DISCLOSURE of price break downs. I think a Free Market works best when consumers are FULLY INFORMED of what they are buying.
From this vintage photo (4th one down) shows the spirit of what I’m getting at. Before anyone sighs at that, if someone showed that today, I imagine the “Uncle Sam” line would be colossal.
Praetera foederati reditus tributum delenda est
Furthermore, federal taxation should be killed?
One way or the other, I loved those pictures, and wanted to give you this:
http://retail.petro-canada.ca/en/fuelsavings/2139.aspx
Canadian numbers, but American gas isn’t that much more than ours converted. I just wish that 88.2 was further broken into COGS and profit.
Furthermore, the federal income tax should be destroyed.
(With google translate license: I don’t know if the Romans had an actual word for our notion of “federal”)
And yes, I like that Canadian price break down, but in my opinion, it doesn’t go far enough for an “Informed Free Market”.
It informs a consumer enough to say “Hey, why the hell are taxes so high?”
It doesn’t inform a consumer – “Why the hell is such-and-such a company donating to CAIR?” or “Why the hell is such-and-such a company donating to Politician X who wants to raise more taxes?”