Feel Free to Rock Dem Rolls At Club Bounce

[Unamused Cat]

http://www.clubbounce.net/info.htm

If Cheers is the bar where everyone knows your name, then Club Bounce is the one where everyone knows your weight.

Well, maybe not to the pound, but Bounce is the Long Beach nightclub that caters specially to plus-sized people, the Whittier Daily News reported.

"Club Bounce is a size-acceptance nightclub," said club owner Lisa Marie Garbo, 40. "People of larger shapes and sizes can go and feel comfortable, accepted and desired and not feel like they're second-class citizens for being overweight."

Bounce, on the Pacific Coast Highway, is only a weekend deal, but it's a success: Garbo has opened another location in Phoenix, AZ, and plans to open one in Hollywood

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30708290/

[Kalehue]

Some interesting pics at the Club's website including this one. Hmmm...the owner says:

overweight people are the last group against which discrimination is still accepted.

But I guess it's okay for the chunky patrons at Club Bounce to discriminate against thin people.

Too funny. The MSNBC article says it's a

Phat Nightclub for Plus-Sized People.

[El Supremo]

overweight people are the last group against which discrimination is still accepted.

This is bullshit on so many levels. I do think we as a society need to stop viewing "ultra-thin" as the holy grail of body image. I'm a proponent of plus-sized models and people being comfortable with who they are --- IF they are.

The problem is, like any group that is combatting discrimination, this solution does more to call attention to the problem and the differences between groups than it does to change our views. Separating yourself into a category called "plus sized" will only make matters worse. A real solution would be for all of us to find a way to stop thinking in such superficial terms, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon.