A friend of mine (5′8″, 115 lbs) recently came back from England with a story worth re-telling:
I was walking down the street, when I almost got hit by a car. I wasn’t paying attention, and it had to swerve to miss me. As it passed, the driver was, like, “Get out of the way, cow!” I cried for the rest of the day, until someone told me that, in England, cow is a way of calling someone stupid, not fat. After that, I felt way better.
This brings up an interesting point. Every girl knows that there are two insults so atrocious, there’s no way to come back from them. Fat and Slut. Yet, whenever girls are put into a corner, they lash out like giant scorpions, calling each other fatties and sluts, whales and whores, porkers and tramps.
Recently, conservative radio host Laura Ingaham called Meghan McCain (Sen. John McCain’s daughter) a “plus-sized model.” I really have no opinion of Meghan McCain one way or the other, but what the hell did she do to warrant being called a fatty? And also, Laura Ingraham talks for a living, and she couldn’t come up with a wittier insult than “plus-sized model”?
Ladies need to cool down their rhetoric, or John McCain is gonna go P.O.W. on their asses.
