NaBloPoMo: Are you calling me fat? Redux
We were talking about Communism in class yesterday and I got the students talking about freedom of speech. I asked if freedom of speech was always protected, or if the government would consider certain speech incendiary (which, of course, it does). One of my students raised his hand and said, "well, sure, you can take anything somebody says and twist it to see it a certain way, just like girls do." To which I said, "...what?" "Yeah," he said, "girls are always twisting guys' words around." And I had no choice but to say, "are you calling me fat?!?" You see how versatile the phrase is, then.




