Target in trouble with BBWs (2 Viewers)

[PayOrPlay]

According to the article, it wasn't renamed for the larger size. Supposedly, that particular color is called Manatee Gray throughout their line of products. However, it just so happened that two different teams worked on that dress and somehow didn't coordinate with each other. If true, that a completely separate problem with the company. But I still think people are way too sensitive.

Maybe, but isn't "Manatee Gray" a bizarre color name for any women's outfit? Sort of in the same category as "Porker Pink" or "Feedlot Green".

 

[Sun Wukong]

Maybe, but isn't "Manatee Gray" a bizarre color name for any women's outfit? Sort of in the same category as "Porker Pink" or "Feedlot Green".

I describe everything I see by using manatees as a reference point. I thought this was a common practice.

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

Now every time I see a large woman on the street I'm gonna have to play this game.

Pumpkin orange, whale blue, stretch limousine black, etc.

 

[FatiusJeebs]

Oh, lord...

How DARE we do something that offends someone else! You know what irks ME? This PC world we have created!

Amen brutha!

 

[billinms]

I agree that people are too easily offended, but this was a really stupid mistake on Target's part. Nobody thought large women would be offended by a comparison to a huge water mammal?

 

[Optimus Prime]

nowhere as bad as this gem:

Racial slur on sofa label stuns family | Toronto Star

snopes.com: Racist Sofa Label

 

[Hoodoo]

People are stupid

 

[FishinFool]

Does a woman who buys clothes that are sized by the color of an elephant actually think she is not fat?


I got a story, but it belongs in the im an idiot thread....

 

[Slurp]

 

[parlorcitysaint]

'Battleship Gray' has a nicer ring to it...

Actually, in the Navy, that shade is referred to as "Hayes Gray".

 

[parlorcitysaint]

somehow, I think this belongs here....

 

[amused]

Manatees are offended at being grouped in with fat chicks .

 

[Anteros77]

So silly. You didn't care when you ate the 6000 cheese burgers and got to that size...but God forbid something reminds you how you look.

Edit: Also, I hate the term BBW. You're not big and beautiful. You're fat. Stop pretending it's ok to eat yourself to death.

 

[Slurp]

Moo

 

[rechargeable]

Unless said joke or slur is directed at you, I think folks who point their finger at the "pc world" need to just shaddup. We don't all just "lol" at, or brush off immature behavior.

If it doesn't involve you in a negative way, then you are in no position to tell people how they should feel about something derogatory towards them.

Fat chicks don't like something branded as size "manatee", I won't be the one to tell them to just laugh it off because they're fat.