Gillibrand To Male Colleague Who Called Her 'Porky': 'Thanks A--hole'

[RandySF]

In promoting her new book, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has come forward with several stories of being called "chubby," "fat," and "porky" by her male colleagues in Congress.

In one incident from her early days in the Senate, Gillibrand describes an older senator who approached her from behind and squeezed her waist. "Don’t lose too much weight now," she recalls him saying. "I like my girls chubby.”

It's one of many episodes she recounted in an interview with People magazine that is not yet online but which was reported by the New York Post on Wednesday. Most of the remarks were directed toward Gillibrand during her self-described struggle with her weight during and after her second pregnancy.

In the House gym, she recalled, another of her male colleagues advised her to work out to avoid getting "porky."

"Thanks, a—hole,” she quipped in her book.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gillibrand-male-colleagues-called-porky

[mythology]

1. Hopefully this kind of attitude will go away.

Although I have a friend, who has roughly .00001% body fat because she's naturally lean and works out like a beast, who's boss has told her that she has to watch her calorie intake or someday she'll get big.