“People come back at me and say, 'Well shut up, you're fat, you're ugly.' I'm like yeah, but you're not offering a cogent rebuttal. When they’re attacking your looks or threatening you or something, it’s because they realize they have no answer. So you have to acknowledge anytime you’re attacked that way: Oh, that’s how they are defeated. That’s actually their defeat. And when you look at all of this trolling kind of stuff online, you realize, oh, they just admitted their defeat. It becomes much more palatable and pleasurable. I think, as women, it’s very hurtful to hear, ‘you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re not what I want,’ or whatever, but really the only reason they’re saying that is that’s the only weapon they have because they have no intelligence, they have no points to back it up, they have no way to argue.”
— Margaret Cho
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