 
                                                                                                    06/14/2024
                                            Have you ever been fat shamed? 
So something HORRIBLE happened at our visit to   in   a couple of weeks ago. 
We are Diamond pass owners and enjoy going to all the different Six Flags locations with our family. We have never been as disrespected before as we had been at this location in Arlington TX! 
 
Half into our day we decided to get a family character drawing of our family. We have done several of these and have enjoyed all of them. We found a booth and an employee by the name of Kyle drew our family. When he got to my 15 year old daughter he tells her, “you’re the only one that got the Mexican from your dad huh!?” First of all even though I have nothing against Mexicans, neither my husband or I are Mexican. Well it didn’t stop there.  When he was done drawing, before coloring it in, I decided to look at it. It was horrible. Like I said we’ve had these done many times so I know what to expect, and this was bad. 
I then asked him “what if we don’t like it?” He looked back at me and said “then you can leave!” “Do you not like it because I made you look old?” And I said yes that was one of the reasons. And then he said “Well I could have given you a double chin, but I was trying to be nice!” Wow!  I have never been fat shamed like that before in my life!  At that point we were done. We walked away. 
About 1-2 mins later we passed back through that area and he had other employees there and we could hear him telling them the story about my “double chin” as they were laughing!  How humiliating! 
I went up to guest relations to voice my concerns. The supervisor I spoke to wouldn’t even come out and talk to me face to face but made me talk to her through a little opening in the glass. Most of the time she didn’t even look at me and then tried to brush off the experience by saying the character drawings are a 3rd party company. Ridiculous! 
Everyone that is able to go to a Six Flags pays good money to be there and  they do not expect to be fat shamed and humiliated and then made to feel like their concerns are invalid. Totally unacceptable!
 
 
 
                                           
 
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                         
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
  