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Article: Slagging off the sexually voracious
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1997
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We can all rest easy in our beds now that the advert which has
drawn the most complaints this year - 309 - has been banned. A
replacement advert, for low-calorie Lucozade, also features the
"Fat Slags" cartoon characters, but it has been changed. Instead of
saying "O mercy, it's the Fat Slags", it will now say "O mercy,
it's Sandra and Tracey".
Does a slag by any other name smell as foul, I wonder? Does
calling these characters Sandra and Tracey rehabilitate them into
respectability? Is this not yet another significant victory for
womanhood?
It is hard to know which word has caused the most offence -