Macy’s has quit selling dinner plates that incited controversy online among people who said they advocated a “toxic message” of portion control. Alie Ward, a science correspondent for the CBS series “Innovation Nation,” tweeted an image of the plates on Sunday with a caption asking how to get the dinnerware banned. Her photo showed a plate featuring smaller and smaller circles labeled, “mom jeans,” “favorite jeans,” and “skinny jeans.”

How can I get these plates from @Macys banned in all 50 states pic.twitter.com/1spntAluVl — Alie Ward (@alieward) July 21, 2019

The plates, made by a brand called Pourtions that were being sold at Macy’s in-store concept shop, called Story, at the retailer’s flagship store in Manhattan’s Herald Square, aimed to provide “helpful — and hilarious — visual cues” that will “spice up your dinner table, and your conversation,” according to the Pourtions website. Ward said the plates made her think of the “moms to young girls to guys who dismiss centuries of crushing beauty standards and laugh them off” when she saw them. “I wasn’t being literal at all in terms of a legal ‘ban,’” Ward wrote to HuffPost in an email, explaining her initial tweet. She said she “just wanted to show the world how insidious beauty culture, and in this case one that shames women, can be. But I wanted Macy’s to know that what they carry and display matters, it can hurt people, and they’re accountable for it.”

Many other people on Twitter shared Ward’s outrage. Some argued that the plates may encourage eating disorders. One responder explained that the plates proliferate a “toxic message, promoting even greater women beauty standards and dangerous health habits.” “These expectations can actually kill someone, and I know someone it has. [Macy’s], remove this from all of your stores and denounce the manufacturer,” reads the tweet. Another person wrote that the plates aren’t funny “when you spend your entire existence being told how to look so you can catch a man/have value, and shamed for the most natural things like gaining weight from things like pregnancy, or eating whatever you freaking like.” Ward said she has “friends who have been hospitalized for eating disorders, who cap off a good dinner by purging, know strong intelligent women who’ve starved themselves to be a certain size, and who obsess about calories so they’re not rejected or ridiculed.”

These labeled plates are AWFUL and I am glad Macy’s has agreed to remove them. This fuels eating disorders. — Susan Feldkamp (@SusanFeldkamp) July 22, 2019

Macy’s just casually promoting eating disorders and body shaming. MOM JEANS FOREVER. pic.twitter.com/ZwZaJVw91F — Aubrey D (@aubswashername) July 21, 2019

Oh, for heavens sake @Macys. Promote eating disorders much?? This is unacceptable. — Pixel'sMom (@LizAdams5) July 21, 2019

One person on Twitter rewrote the messages on the plates to feature a more empowering message:

Ward’s tweet garnered so much traction that “The Good Place” star and body positivity activist Jameela Jamil tweeted about it with an angry message to Macy’s. “Fuck these plates,” the actress wrote on Sunday night.

Fuck these plates. Fuck these plates to hell @Macyshttps://t.co/BNOmGszf03 — Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) July 22, 2019

However, hours before Jamil’s tweet, Macy’s took action. The retailer responded to Ward by saying the store had “missed the mark on this product” and appreciated her thoughts. “It will be removed from all STORY at Macy’s locations,” Macy’s tweeted.

Hi, Alie — we appreciate you sharing this with us and agree that we missed the mark on this product. It will be removed from all STORY at Macy's locations. — Macy's (@Macys) July 22, 2019