On 19 Feb 2005 11:11:30 -0800, "Sonia" 
wrote:

>The recent rule in an Atlantic City Casino forcing women to maintain

They're "forced" to work there?

>their weight or lose their jobs is one more sad reflection of the
>double standard imposed on women. Already at a disadvantage in terms of
>equal opportunity,

Nonsense.

>equal wages

Bullshit.

> and
> comparable health care,

Har har!

>women will
>now have to starve themselves to keep their jobs. All for the sake of
>appearing pleasing to the male eyes.
>
>By applying an arbitrary standard that has no regard for the health and
>well being of women or their job skill, the criteria marginalizes women
>and reduces them to sex objects. Yes, there may have been some
>advancements for women in the workplace in recent years, but it is
>obvious we still have a long way to go.

Why'd you ignore the fact that are subject to the same restrictions?

And why'd you ignore the fact that the "oppressor," the casino VP,
is a woman?  To give the false impression of "discrimination?"

>
>Sonia

What a joker.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345668/posts
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has
told cocktail servers if they pack on too many pounds, they'll
get an unpaid suspension to lose the weight or be fired.

The policy will apply to anyone gaining more than 7 percent
of their body weight; weight gain related to pregnancy or a
medical condition will be exempt, casino officials said. The
company will pay to put the offender through a weight-loss
program during the up-to-90-day suspension.

The policy was laid out in a letter to employees last week
and has infuriated some women's advocates.

``Women should not have to starve themselves just to keep
their jobs,'' said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National
Research Center for Women & Families, a Washington, D.C.-based
advocacy group. ``The policy places enormous stress on all the
women and encourages eating disorders to reach a totally
arbitrary goal.''
(Why does Ms. Diana also ignore the men?)

The casino, whose edgy marketing themes and sexy accents have
helped bowl over the competition since opening in July 2003,
contends there's nothing wrong with setting weight limits for
its 210 costumed beverage servers 160 servers dubbed Borgata
Babes and 50 other male and female bartenders.

A Borgata vice president, Cassie Fireman, said the policy clarifies
existing appearance standards: that women servers should have
``natural hourglass figures'' and men ``V-shaped torsos, broad
shoulders and slim waists.'' No weight limits were ever set, however,
she said.

``Our costumed beverage servers are a huge part of our marketing
and our branding image,'' she said. ``We feel it's fair, we feel
it's legal, we feel it's what our customers have come to expect
at Borgata.''
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