AIBU to question Snag Tights using very plus-size models?

If it doesn't bother you seeing very large people in real life, why is it so upsetting for you to see them in photographs of tights?

Of course being obese isn't healthy. But being unhealthy doesn't mean people have to be invisible. People with health conditions are allowed to wear clothes and be photographed.

If you don't approve of a company using plus-size models, that's up to you; simply vote with your debit card and don't buy their products. But to say using larger models 'shouldn't be allowed' just because you have some weird hang-up about seeing pictures of fat people is utterly fucking ludicrous.

Agreed. It's the classic "fat women are lazy" trope - followed by the same idiots trying to body shame women for going to the gym or doing sport and haranguing businesses like Nike and Adidas for having a plus size clothing range.

Because fat women are simultaneously lazy and shouldn't be allowed to wear sports gear or do sports.

Oh noes, fat women 😢.

Your point is not valid.

I have been very fat and very slim. I had no additional medical issues as a fatty - and even if I did, were you going to pay for me to have talking therapy, Mounjaro or any other treatment if it's only about it being a health issue?

Or is it just that you're uncomfortable with looking at fat bodies?

The problem lies with you and only you in some sort of internalised misogyny.

Why shouldn't their brand be try hard? So what if they aim it at fat women?

The founder is morbidly obese and I understand that she was specifically trying to create tights that would fit her and other obese people, as well as other people although who struggle to find tights that fit.

I don't have a problem with that myself. It's the "choke me" stuff and labelling DV victims as kink-shaming bullies I take issue with.

I’m size 16 with 34 inch inside leg. They make tights that fit me. Many don’t. I don’t not want to see a size 8 model or a size 28 model - neither are relevant to me. I want to range to grasp what they might look like. Tall, short, fat, thin etc. I’m tall with long legs even a 5ft size 16 model wouldn’t help. I waffle. Conclusion a range of models is a good thing!

Promoting obesity? Listen, I'm a big woman (haven't seen the ads you're talking about, so can't make a comparison with them.) I don't support the whole "HAES" type movement. I don't think we should be promoting either extremes of size as being healthy and discouraging healthy changes as is seen in the body positive movements these days. But this isn't it. It's not promoting obesity, it's promoting clothes that are plus size. Using a slim woman for that would be ridiculous. Obese people exist and need to be clothed, acting like they don't and hiding them away from media isn't the answer lmao. If the ads say "this is peak health, it's fine to get this big" then you have something to actually be concerned about.

So why does it bother you to see them advertising clothes that are in their size?? What for you is an acceptable size to be advertised?

Yeah hide the big girls in a cupboard..how dare they exist

Boo hoo.

It's a marketing strategy. If the product doesn't appeal to you, don't buy it.

You can buy M&S anti chafe knickers if you want to be prim about the name.

Or Underpops from Popsy if you wish to be twee about it.

That this is your first assumptions says a great deal about you.

No, my DC are all some form of not straight. So we hang out with a range of people in that community frequently. Including trans people.

What I actually said, just to make sure you understood me and weren't wilfully distorting what I said, was that I know too many trans people to think that the stereotype of trans people is anything more than well - a stereotype. Along the same lines as 'Mexicans are all rapists', 'Muslims are all terrorists', 'Feminists are all lesbians'. Like all stereotypes, it's bullshit. I take people as I find them and don't make assumptions.

I don't think that there is a mandate that means you have to call them that. You could call them anti chafe shorts or whatever you like really. The world is your oyster.

You're not their target audience then. It's as simple as that.

I guess it's rocket science these days!

The poses ... unsavoury.

Clearly, a website which wants men to leer at the 'models' - if you can call them that.