Let’s Analyze…. The Toulmin Way: Do You Notice It (Blog)

Let’s Analyze…. The Toulmin Way

Do You Notice It (Blog)

·         Claim

My major claims are that there is a splendor of fashionable small clothing that decreases as sizes go up, these is a significant price difference in the same fabric and design of clothes but in different sizes and companies are refusing to sell to plus size customers to upkeep a company image of “cool people”. All these claims where put forth to the reader (mostly plus size women) to assure them that these findings aren't just a coincidence but this is an actually problem, this is size discrimination. It is unfair to not allow someone to vote in the US based on race, economical statues or appearance but companies are allowed to purposely exclude a category of people on unjust reasons?

·         Qualifier- A reader would imply that only some companies are purposely excluding plus sizes and is a serious form of size discrimination.

·         Data: My data is my personal experience when shopping through racks in a store to find that at size large there was only one dull shirt. I had no really sturdy data or evidence for the price difference for plus size clothes compared to regular. My data for my 3^rd supporting claim was the CEO of Abercrombie quotes of purposely excluding the plus market in his companies because ” A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”

·         Warrants – These events conclude that companies are purposely discriminating against plus size customers.

·         Backing

-Companies normally out for making a profit in everything they do, would broaden their customer diversity to bring in more profits.

-Companies don’t charge their clothes size off of the amount of cloth used.

·         Authority – I am a plus size girl myself and I included my frustration with a personal experience while shopping to earn credibility with readers.

·         Rebuttal – There are two rebuttals to my argument. One could say America is a free market that allows for consumers to not shop at stores that are so called “discriminating” and that my one experience at the store isn't enough to justify that it’s an actually discrimination problem; there has to be more than one person to confirm that.

·         My Response to those rebuttals would be that yes, Plus size women do have the choice to not shop at that company and go to another but when we leave this company to continue thinking that this discrimination is “OK” and just  it can lead to greater cases of discrimination. Starting at selling selective sizes unto hiring selective employees that would go against the Employee Discrimination Act. I’m trying to save these companies from letting this become a bigger situation before federal lawsuits jump in. My response to the second rebuttal would be that my whole purpose is to rally plus size women to see that the struggle they go through every time they go clothes shopping is purposely because of clothing companies. It’s not their fault that can’t have cute size 0 pants but rather that it the companies fault for not including our size and designs in their collection. They are the reason; we are put down in society. Readers hopefully would speak out towards this issues and it would become more qualified as discrimination.