Sen. Susan Collins apologizes for fat-shaming unbelievably unattractive colleague

Brett T. | 7:31 PM on July 25, 2017

Admittedly this is a stupid story, but it’s chock full of equally stupid subtext that’s endemic to our times, so there.

As Twitchy reported, GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold told a radio interviewer that it was “some female senators from the Northeast” who were standing in the way of Obamacare’s repeal, adding that if they were men, he might challenge them to a duel, “Aaron Burr-style,” and settle the issue that way.

That was certainly not the sort of messaging the GOP needed to bring people on board to the Obamacare repeal effort, and people found themselves with a choice: they could (and did) accuse Farenthold of wanting to shoot female representatives who disagreed with him; or, they could just repost those photos of Farenthold in duck pajamas taken at a costume party/fundraiser.

Plenty of people on social media doubted that Farenthold could even win in a duel, while quite a few others compared him to Jabba the Hut in the looks department.

It turns out that even Sen. Susan Collins, one of those female senators from the Northeast, laid down some smack talk about Farenthold. Collins was caught on a hot microphone calling him “fat” and “so unattractive.”

Republican senator calls congressman who challenged her to a duel 'fat' and 'unattractive' https://t.co/iLp9GFOtUi

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) July 25, 2017

“He’s so unattractive,” Collins told her colleagues. “It’s unbelievable.”

Just as an experiment to see just how PC we’ve become, we tried reversing the genders here and imagined the hypothetical response from the media had a male senator called a female colleague “huge” and “unbelievably unattractive.”