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College student's outrage after bouncer wouldn't let her dance on bar because she was overweight
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4-29-12

Posted on 04/29/2012 9:56:18 AM PDT by rawhide

A 21-year-old woman has accused the bouncers at her local pub of discrimination after she was banned from dancing on the bar because she was told she was too fat.

ABC News reports Jordan Ramos, a student at the University of Iowa, who describes herself as 'plus-sized', says she was with friends at Union Bar in Iowa City last month when she tried to climb onto the bar.

Miss Ramos says she was told to get back on the floor because she 'was not pretty enough' and was 'obviously pregnant'.

ABC reports the bouncer told Miss Ramos the bar was at capacity during a night out on March 3.

She told the network she waited until a few girls stepped off to make room and tried a second time to stand on the platform - but was stopped again.

Miss Ramos said a friend confronted the manager, but he refused to discuss the matter and asked the women to leave.

'There was only one difference: I am a plus-sized individual,' she told ABC.

'The bouncer said "Look, you will never get up on this platform. Go back to the dance floor where you belong."'

She returned to the bar again on April 14, and was again rejected.

'He said, "You’re not pretty enough and you’re pregnant." I said, "I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that I am not pregnant."

'He then looked at my stomach and said, "You obviously are." They knew I was not pregnant; it was there way of calling me fat without having to actually say it,' she said.

Miss Ramos filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, but officials told her they could not investigate because size discrimination is not illegal.

The incidents, she said, have made her question her worth.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: bouncer; napl; overweight; ramos
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To: central_va
They would have had to call in Mike Holmes to reinforce the bar with a steel girder. That ain't cheap.
101 posted on 04/29/2012 11:45:00 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: rockabyebaby

FYI, we also discriminate against absolutely disgusted people!


102 posted on 04/29/2012 11:48:11 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Snickering Hound
First of all, I completely missed the fifth girl on the right, thus proving how shallow I really must be.

Secondly, the Caption is incorrect. It should read “you're”, not “your”. Not that anyone else here noticed or cared if they did notice.

Lastly, it's my new Background picture on the Computer until my Wife gets home from shopping.

103 posted on 04/29/2012 11:52:09 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: rawhide
and if she broke the bar and fell on her azz, she'd be the first to sue then too...
104 posted on 04/29/2012 11:54:06 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: rockabyebaby
Davy the fat boy, Davy the fat boy
Isn't he round? Isn't he round?
What do he weigh folks?
Can you guess what he weigh?
It's only a quarter
Win a teddy bear for the girlfriend
Or something for the wife
You got to let this fat boy in your life

I think we can persuade him to do
The famous fat boy dance for you
Give me half a chance
I just know you'll like my fat boy's dance

Davy the fat boy, Davy the fat boy
Isn't he
Isn't he round? 

105 posted on 04/29/2012 11:55:36 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: rawhide

Mom and Dad are very proud....


106 posted on 04/29/2012 12:03:19 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: rockabyebaby
Do you also discriminate against old people, black people, people with disabilities?

Far as I can tell, the issue here is fat chicks. Take your phony outrage and bogus straw men elsewhere.

You may not like Freepers sense of humor, but that brings into question why you are even here, and also why this thread pulled you in.........

107 posted on 04/29/2012 12:05:06 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: SECURE AMERICA

It appears the market has determined her worth.


108 posted on 04/29/2012 12:06:18 PM PDT by DPMD
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...


109 posted on 04/29/2012 12:15:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I bet that sounded like basketball practice in an empty gym, if anybody could hear it over the music.


110 posted on 04/29/2012 12:15:26 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: mnehring; bigheadfred
Eeek, that’s not “Plus-Sized”, that’s Wild Snorlax.

WILD SNORLAX USES OUTRAGED GLARE.

IT'S NOT VERY EFFECTIVE.

111 posted on 04/29/2012 12:20:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: rawhide

She should have waited until 1 AM, by then the beer goggles would have set in, and they would have thought that she was hot.


112 posted on 04/29/2012 12:22:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: mnehring

I’m glad I didn’t have mouthful of water, I’d have snorted it all over this laptop. LOLOL!


113 posted on 04/29/2012 12:28:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: CORedneck

Miss DeGroot: You know, Mr. Bundy, I’ve worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed?

Al Bundy: You learned to eat books?


114 posted on 04/29/2012 12:30:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: rawhide

Don’t laugh too hard here, FReepers. You watch, this will soon be another protected class if the Left gets its way.


115 posted on 04/29/2012 12:32:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: varyouga
There was a time in my life when I hit the bars seven nights a week, drank a great deal and closed them down every night, and I'd go to all sorts of places. The clubs you describe are alright for special occasions, for weekends and such, but they're too expensive and too uptight to ever be anybody’s regular spot, outside of coke addled young stockbrokers and the hookers that follow in their wake.

Of the real bars, the neighborhood places, the dives, the biker joints and such, there are a few who would quite happily let her up there, but she'd be at the mercy of the patrons sidled up to watch the impromptu show.

The things I've seen that I'd like to unsee as a result, well, call it an expensive education on the seedier side of life. Women hairier than me stripping, sixty year olds in dresses with no undergarments, and even obese women, especially in low rent redneck sorts of places, you know, where every woman in the place outweighs you except for the crackheads, and every one of them either just got a tat or is just about to get a new one.

I saw a very large woman who had had numerous tequila shots jump up on a pedestal table and promptly collapse it, on Christmas Eve once, years ago.

Good thing she was drunk off her @$$, that might’ve hurt. The owner did stop allowing that, from then on, so there is some fear of liability shining dimly through the haze of alcohol and substance abuse.

Maybe that's why the Apostle Paul appeals to me so now, he was quite the sinner but repented, was forgiven and went on to do great things for the Lord. I've had much to repent myself.

116 posted on 04/29/2012 12:36:24 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: FreedomPoster

Wait until you read 8.


117 posted on 04/29/2012 12:37:01 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: dfwgator

Where did that photo come from? Looks like a still from some horror movie!


118 posted on 04/29/2012 12:40:10 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 20 days away from outliving Phil Hartman)
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To: Slings and Arrows; mnehring

If you want to see some effect, refer (however lovingly) to my wife as “Thundercat”.


119 posted on 04/29/2012 12:40:28 PM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM (OBIWAN) IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: mnehring

“I think I smell a fat girls “movement” ....
Some sentences.. well....”

Eye Yie Yie!!!!!

Funniest today.


120 posted on 04/29/2012 12:44:08 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take?)
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