'The Fat Slags': legitimate topic for academic discourse

English A-level student Rachel Spence scored 38 out of 40 with her Media Studies essay on Viz magazine cartoon characters Tracy and Sandra, a.k.a. 'The Fat Slags'. Worth a read, even if she does manage to slip the phrase 'body fascist' in there. Viz killed off the Slags in 2004 because they'd passed their use-by date.