“Nowhere on North American TV have we seen a weather reader as gross as you. Your front end looks like the Hindenburg and your rear end looks like a brick s**t-house. We now turn off Global.” This insult was issued to Canadian meteorologist Kristi Gordon. The diss sounds complicated and boxing-inspired – uppercut, side-swipe, kapow! – but, on closer examination, isn’t. “Hindenburg” just means a big thing; brick shit-house also means a big thing.
Why would anyone call someone else fat in such a verbose way? Aha. Gordon happened to be pregnant and dared to wear a dress on television in her condition. If this wasn’t depressing enough, she has said the vitriol wasn’t a surprise since she had experienced similar wrath during her first pregnancy.
Of all the indignities of this reproductive state, the greatest is that you’re not allowed to get angry
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