The reason Frenchwomen are slim and American women are fat is simple: American women drive S.U.V.'s, and Frenchwomen walk.Would you not get fat if your just drove a Prius everywhere?
February 28, 2005
Free-floating anti-SUV hostility.
The NYT has some letters to the editor today about that op-ed that said the reason Frenchwomen don't get fat is that they smoke a lot. (I blogged about that op-ed here.) This letter caught my eye:
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thats ineresting because everybody i see driving them seem to have trouble negotiating them, even the h2 wanabees. in my opinion if you want wone of those thins you should have to pass a driving test in one.
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