FYI

[nilchance]

Okay, this isn't exactly fandom related, but I saw it on a FW-related comm.

Abercrombie & Fitch banishes an employee with a prosthetic arm to the back because she doesn't fit their beauty standards. Same company has also been in trouble for doing the same to their POC employees, and for creating racist slogans on their t-shirts.

My first year of university, I went to a college in OH where freshmen tours were asked if they wore A&F. If so, oh, you'd fit into this community so well! It was an immediate sign that the non-pretty people weren't welcome; I've never been so damned glad I a) transferred, and b) didn't fit in there in the first place. Ugh.

ETA: Those t-shirts mentioned above.

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[spazzer-mctwich.livejournal.com]

this body blog i read also said that while she was hospitalized for an eating disorder she met a severely anorexic woman who was actually aggressively recruited by A&F for having "the right look" only a few days before the woman was forcibly hospitalized.