Stop gyms from body shaming

The Issue

World Gym in Victorville, CA has billboard off of exit 45. The billboard has an image of a plus size female standing on a bathroom scale, the billboard read "Save the Scales" This type of advertising is a form of capitalizing of insecurities, marketing on body image issues and blatantly body shaming. Billboards like these, add to the fact of social construct plays a huge role in body image issues, and body dysmorphic disorder. Our small town isn't immune to the insensitivity of this kind of adversiting. I petition to have the billboard taken down, along with a formal apology, not just from the World Gym branch in Victorville, but from the World Gym franchise.
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The Issue

World Gym in Victorville, CA has billboard off of exit 45. The billboard has an image of a plus size female standing on a bathroom scale, the billboard read "Save the Scales" This type of advertising is a form of capitalizing of insecurities, marketing on body image issues and blatantly body shaming. Billboards like these, add to the fact of social construct plays a huge role in body image issues, and body dysmorphic disorder. Our small town isn't immune to the insensitivity of this kind of adversiting. I petition to have the billboard taken down, along with a formal apology, not just from the World Gym branch in Victorville, but from the World Gym franchise.

The Decision Makers

World Gym
World Gym
Gloria Garcia
Gloria Garcia
Ryan McEachron
Ryan McEachron

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Petition created on April 11, 2016