This weekend, Kevin Smith got into a very public twitter war with Southwest Airlines after they allegedly ejected him from a full airplane for being “too fat to fly.” You can read Kevin Smith’s round up here, Southwest’s response, and an independent assessment of the situation by Gawker.
But, if you want to know what fat IS, you might want to read two of our books: The Fat Studies Reader and Fat Rights. There’s no better place to start on your quest to understand why and how our society and laws treat fat people differently.
