Fat-Female Phobia Hits a New Low?

[akirlu]

I don't see anybody noticing or taking this line, but to me, if a guy walks into a Lane Bryant store, takes six women hostage, possibly torturing them, and shoots them all, killing five and leaving the sixth for dead, that sure looks like a candidate for an anti-fat hate crime. Especially since all the reports so far agree that the store was not a good candidate for armed robbery per se.

ETA - If I'm right about the motives of the perp, the fact that the marketing software is putting up Lane Bryant / Caique Bras ads on that last article seems faintly creepy.

ETA 2 - The New York Times fatosphere article mentioned in comments is here, just in case you missed it like I did.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Who robs a Lane Bryant? There *must* have been something more going on than just the "botched robbery" being reported.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, this is my thought, certainly. Nobody robs retail clothing stores -- most of their transactions will be credit, not cash, and so there just won't be much in the till.