Just saw this on Faux News during “Kelly’s Court”. The token “it’s okay to take a collective shit on fat people” clown actually said that everybody who’s fat “lives on a 3 Big Macs a day diet”. I guess he doesn’t know about MSG and aspartame causing obesity, or maybe he does and is told by his corporate masters to conveniently ignore those facts. Then Megyn Kelly used her final word to say it’s legal to discriminate based on physical appearance. IMHO, it should be illegal to discriminate on such grounds. Why is it okay to discriminate against overweight people yet not okay to discriminate against HIV-positive people and transgendered people?

Face it, America. Fat people are the new Jews.

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Bartender Claims She was Bounced for Gaining 5 Pounds
KTLA News

October 31, 2008

WEST HOLLYWOOD — A former bartender at the popular Foxtail nightclub in West Hollywood says she was bounced from the bar to the kitchen for gaining five pounds.

30 year old Virginia Tzortzos of North Hollywood filed a sex discrimination lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court Thursday.

The lawsuit alleges gender discrimination, and sexual harassment.

Tzortzos, who is a size 6, says management at the bar told her she was too fat and needed to work in the kitchen until she lost 5 to 6 pounds.

She says she was told that she could not work at the bar up front and be visible to the public until she lost the weight and that when she lost the desired weight, she would be rewarded by that manager who would “make out” with her.

Tzortzos’ attorney, Gloria Allred, says males at the bar are able to continue to bartend despite being overweight or gaining weight.

Tzortzos says she is an excellent bartender and was never late for her job. She worked there four night a week, never called in sick, had perfect attendance and peformed her job well at all times.

Tzortzos says she was relegated to the kitchen where she was told to provide drinks to the food servers, and October 17, 2008 she was written up for being “complacent” in the kitchen and was told she needed to be “happier there.”

When she asked Human Resources at the business how much weight she needed to lose to go back to serving the public, she was told 5 or 6 pounds, Tzortzors says.

She says it was clear that the rail thin image of a female sexual stereotype was what management wanted.

As a result of the stress caused by the incident, Allred says, Tzortzos has now taken medical leave from her job.

Allred says she and Tzortzos are seeking general and punitive damages according to proof at trial and a judicial injunction requiring Foxtail to return Tzortzos to her job as a bartender.