From Sacramento:
Helen Hodges understood the need for a gas station clerk to write her identifying information on a sales receipt. She just wishes he had chosen a different phrase.We interrupt this excerpt for a photo of the aggrieved party:
"It says 'black lady,' and I can understand that because I am a black lady," Hodges told News10. "But I don't get 'big fat.' I don't get that part."
Hodges, 31, said the offensive incident happened Thursday night after she was shorted $10 in a gas pump mix-up at a station on Marconi Avenue near the Capital City Freeway. When she returned to the station for a refund, a $10 bill was attached to a receipt with a handwritten notation "black lady big fat."
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The description is mean. And unnecessary.
Derogatory statements and mistreatment of fat people is one of the only forms of discrimination that's still acceptable today.
And no I am not fat, not even overweight, but I've seen the tears shed privately by women who have been humiliated by others because of their weight.
And losing weight is not as easy as some might think.
I totally agree with Nightingale! It was mean!
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