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

[DallazMajor]

Snag Tights have women who are morbidly obese modelling their products.

AIBU to think that this isn’t ok?

And?

All body sizes and types need clothes. Everyone would like to see what something may look like on their particular body type. Everyone deserves to be represented.

Is that a problem?

It’s just out of date. Since QT+ hijacked pride it’s been discredited. It’s no longer a ‘ community’ when you’ve been hijacked by terrorists who threaten violence and upset community members with no concern at all.

I haven't seen any of that locally, so clearly it isn't universal. And I know too many trans people to think they're all the same. Bit like, well, people, really.

OP, what do you think will happen

So fat people should be hidden and not shown clothes that fit them?

People come in all shapes.

Snag has issues. Model size isnt one of them

You know too many trans people? Are you in the drag business?

What makes you think Snag are a mainstream retailer rather than a niche lingerie company though?

They have no bricks and mortar shops, they aren't advertising on TV etc.

I'd call them an alternative clothing retailer. And many alternative clothing companies use marketing very differently from the big boys of the high street.

I'm not a fan of the company, I abhor their attitude to many things, advertising period pants to men was another nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned but I'll defend their option to use even the fattest women in society to advertise their wares if they wish.

Having been over 20 stone at my worst, seeing other large women made me feel more comfortable shopping with them because I could see they'd put effort into making things fit bodies like mine.

I buy quality, dear.

Rude. I’ll get over myself when you stop talking shit. It’s dangerous promote obesity end of. It’s like saying “everyone knows that drug use is dangerous so let’s start using crack heads to advertise some tights”.

The poses ... unsavoury.

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

I don’t think it takes a vivid imagination to know how you would look in a pair of tights.

It doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

I guess it's rocket science these days!

this is another thing that annoys me. Why do they have to be called “chub” rub shorts. I have always had leg chafing no matter what weight I was. Im a pear shape I have thick thighs.

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

They arent purely for obese people.

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.

They cater for all sizes.

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.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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.

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

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?