1891 telegraphic code for keeping character-limited messages short. Love it. I have already tweeted a version of the subject line here, and I might just spend all day thinking up new ones.
Update: Bitch Ph.D.’s M. LeBlanc saw that tweet and replied, “@KateHarding I read ‘cervicide crap’ as ‘cervical cap’ and ’slank’ as ’skank.’ i.e. People who use contraception are whores!” Yikes! Perhaps I should have chosen less easily confused code words.
Kate Harding is the co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, founder of the internet's most popular body acceptance blog,