Backhand

~

No matter how

you sugarcoat it,

there is never a nice way of calling someone fat.

I.E.

“You would have been beautiful in the Renaissance era [because in the Renaissance era they painted portraits of chubby girls like you— back then, fat was artistry.]

I still don’t know what I was more upset about: The backhanded compliment--

"would have"

being synonymous for

"no longer"-- or the fact that

I was conditioned

to believe the

Mona Lisa

was anything short of

sublime.

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Image source:

Mona Lisa static gif. (16 Jul. 2018). [image] Available at: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1443036941 [Accessed 29 Jan. 2019].

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