Missouri state Rep. Bill Lant pokes fun at high school crush’s sagging breasts on his blog

Somehow, Missouri state Rep. Bill Lant, of Pineville, thought that a blog post that started out about the increasing instances of child abuse in the state was an appropriate venue to also reminisce about the breasts of one of his high school classmates from 50 years ago.

Lant sits on the Joint Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, so you’d think that the southwest Missouri Republican might show better judgment than making tasteless remarks about the bodies of teenage girls. Yet, October 2, Lant wrote on his website about catching up with an old crush at his 50th high school reunion in Collinsville, Illinois.

Lant, sounding like the type of classmate whom no one else wants to see at a reunion, commented about how fat the jocks had become and speculated that the cheerleaders had skipped the event “because they didn’t want us to see how old they looked.”

One woman who did show up was once the object of a teenage Lant’s creepy obsession.

“The high point for Jane [Lant’s wife] was getting to meet the girl I have mentioned more than a few times over the years because she totally distracted me in Algebra class by wearing a tight cardigan!” Lant wrote. “She even had an exotic name, [name redacted]! It never failed, Mr. Howerton would catch me staring at her and smack me across the knuckles with a ruler. I’m not kidding, have you ever noticed how gnarly my knuckles are?”

Lant is no gentleman. He went from being the student who ogled classmates to the point that his knuckles were repeatedly rapped to the husband who tells his wife several times about the bodies of women who preoccupied him in class.

The woman, showing more grace than Lant, offered her old classmate a welcoming hug. (We’re not naming her because she doesn’t deserve the indignity of being humiliated twice.)

“Wow! Time has not been kind to that girl! What was stretching the cardigan 50 years ago is now bumping the belt,” Lant remarked. “Jane was laughing so hard she was turning blue.”

People like Lant and his wife are the reasons that so many avoid class reunions.

Lant later shacked up at a Holiday Inn Express, where he encountered a pleasant staff.

“Being nice when you don’t have to is something we all should do more of!” Lant wrote.

Lant should take his own advice.

We left Lant a message seeking comment about his post. We’ll update if we hear back from him. A screengrab of his crude remarks is below.