The petition Micheal Jeffries has created to cancel Abercrombie & Fitch's line of extra large clothing sizes is extremely unfair on many terms. A clothing size does not determine who you are or what you are capable of; it is nothing more but a number that determines what size of clothing you will wear. This petition discriminates against thousands of teens who are highly offended by many of Micheal Jeffries speculations. "In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids, candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-american kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. - Mike Jeffries."
This is not fair at all to the teens who wish to wear the clothing but aren't the ideal "Mike Jeffries size." 30.4% of teens in American struggle with weight loss issues and for Mike Jeffries to address this ongoing issue like he did was extremely inappropriate. Clothing is a way for people to express themselves, it does not determine how cool you are. If someone chooses to wear Abercrombie and Fitch to sport the "preppy" look, let them, wearing Abercrombie and Fitch does not automatically make you cool (unless you are in grade 6).
This scandal highly contributes to society's already biased perception of what beauty truly is. Magazines give the models layers and layers of make-up and are also heavily edited on Photoshop. This gives teens girls unrealistic views of what they should really look like. Teen girls may begin to possess negative thoughts about their looks and this may lead to eating disorders.
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