No Fat People Allowed?

Dear Mississippi: Kindly Keep Your Shit-Ass Laws Out of My Digestive Tract. Love, Meowser:

So really, I shouldn’t have been as shocked to my foundations as I was to read Sandy Szwarc’s article on Junkfood Science the other day about a new bill, HB 282, proposed by a trio of Mississippi legislators (two Republicans, W.T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and one Democrat, Bobby Shows) that would keep “obese” people (as defined by state law) from being served food in all restaurants with five seats or more.

Yeah, that’s right — since they can’t legally keep people with dark skin out of their eateries down there anymore, they’ll do the next best thing, which is to keep people with a lot of skin out of them. Who often, coincidentally, have…dark skin also. Yeah. Coincidentally. Even I didn’t smell that one approaching, and I have a nose like a cat. (I do not know for sure that the sponsors of this bill had racial overtones consciously in mind, but they had to expect that someone would notice them.)

This sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. Someone is proposing an actual segregation law. For real. And it didn’t get laughed out of committee. Because fatties are hated that much, even by themselves. (Take a look at John Read’s picture, and tell me self-loathing isn’t involved in this one.)

This is one of the most preposterous things I have ever heard of.

Banning fat people from restaurants, banquets, and restricting room service.

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