This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for fat hatred and body policing.]

I know it's early, but I'm pretty sure there's not going to be anything worse than this horrendo Daily Fail article about getting liposuction to fix your cankles.

Good lord.

Whenever I hear the word "cankles," I am reminded of a former acquaintance of mine who once groused to me that it was no fair that she was skinny (her word) but had cankles and I was fat and had "nice ankles," followed by this plaintive look as if she expected to me apologize, or, perhaps, offer to exchange ankles with her in acknowledgment of the injustice that a skinny girl was forced to envy a fat girl.

Instead, I told her, "There's nothing wrong with your ankles."

"You WOULD say that," she sneered disgustedly in reply.

My fervent hope is that, in the interim, she has found body acceptance. Or, failing that, doesn't read this article.

[H/T to Shaker JPlum.]

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