Club Prohibits "Fat Girls," Claims It's An "Inside Joke"

A Montreal nightclub angered patrons by posting "NO FAT GIRLS ALLOWED!" on its Facebook page. But promoters say it's far from the only club to discriminate based on appearance.

A Montreal nightclub angered patrons by posting "NO FAT GIRLS ALLOWED!" on its Facebook page. But promoters say it's far from the only club to discriminate based on appearance.

Debrahlee Lorenzana says she was fired from Citibank because her beauty was "too distracting" for her male colleagues. Her story is a disturbing example of discrimination in a male-dominated workplace — but also of girl-on-girl crime.
This will shock you, but apparently some women get jobs at hedge funds solely on the basis that they are hot. "You meet these bimbos and they say, ‘Oh, I work at a hedge fund,' and you think, What?!?" one "head of an investment bank who pals around with high net worth investors" tells W Magazine. "And then you…
In today's Times of London, fashion editor Lisa Armstrong dissects what she deems our egregiously-lookist society. "Increasingly, looks are used to define women who never set out to compete by those rules," Armstrong points out. "The entire female flank of the French Cabinet has recently had their wardrobes pored…