2008-01-24

A woman with reddish-brown hair in a pink top, smiling and gesturing, speaks to a man seen from behind against a green background. She says, "It's okay if I use that word. I'm not a racist!" The joke: she's claiming the right to use a slur because she isn't bigoted. In the votey, a rough black-and-white sketch of the same smiling woman delivers the word she meant — "Fatass!" — revealing it was a fat-related insult, not a racial slur, that she felt entitled to use.