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

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

All the local paper here reported was bare bone stuff. I thought Lane Bryant an odd choice for a robbery and wondered if it was an anti-fat crime.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

In general, I would think that a retailer likely to be taking the vast majority of its sales in credit/debit charges would be unlikely for a robbery, so yes, at that point I do at least wonder if the fact that it is a Lane Bryant in particular isn't a significant factor.