Donovan Tooth receives death threats after his rant aimed at “overweight” women
Last week, a video of a man identified as Donovan Tooth, who is a a fitness clothing brand owner, went viral and created a social media storm.
In the expletive video, Donovan is seen and heard in his car going on a long rant, calling out society's views on overweight women. Donovan starts off his video with the following:
I am so sick and tired of people making as if these overweight little hippos are perfect and there is nothing wrong with them
The thing that irritates me is why can’t he just keep quiet and let women be they are beautiful as they are no one can determine beauty like come on man I’m tired of gents ruining for the rest of us with illiterate comments like this
— Rpiofficial_lesley (@RpiofficialL) September 17, 2020
& here we go again , men thinking they have the right to an opinion on a woman’s body
— kelly (@_kellydenise) September 17, 2020
The “unnormal”. Oh and his really unwarranted anger at random strange women is creepy, this man sounds very capable of assault/GBV. The sudden switch and “have a lekker day” evil vibes man
— ginger (@hurricane_arya) September 17, 2020
In the expletive-filled monologue, Donovan is heard fat-shaming women and speaking of them in a derogatory manner.
Social media users were quick to identify him and called on the clothing brand, Panda Apparel SA, whom Donovan is the face of, to act decisively against him.
Following the social media storm, the company issued a statement:
In part, the company says that they offer their sincere apologies for the widespread hurt that was caused and an internal review process / disciplinary procedure has been initiated.
In the meantime, Donovan Tooth has shared that he and his family have received death threats following the backlash of his actions.
I have gotten death threats ... My family have gotten threats ... I am getting attacked. It is truly and honestly horrible
Donovan tooth has since deleted his video posts and issued an apology.
He has also deleted all of his social media accounts. A Facebook group has been started named, 'Donovan Tooth Must fall', in which women across the country are coming together to voice their outrage against Donovan's utterances and how triggering his video posts have been.
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