From "The surprising reason JPMorgan lawyers don’t want Chirayu Rana to drop his bombshell ‘sex slave’ lawsuit" (NY Post).
How does that quote even exist? No one would say that, but no one making up a quote should make up something that no one would say. "Fishwife" is a standard expression, but "fish head wife" isn't. And I'll just stop there. It's so ludicrous that it's incomprehensible as a made up quote.
ADDED: "Fishwife" is a standard expression... it has a Wikipedia article: "A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch.... Some wives and daughters of fishermen were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed, as noted in the expression to swear like a fishwife, as they sold fish in the marketplace. Among the reasons for their outspokenness were that their wares were highly perishable and lost value if not sold quickly, and the similarity of their product to that of others selling the same thing, with volume of voice or colourful language drawing customer attention. Also, managing alone while their menfolk were away fishing for extended periods made them strong and self-sufficient...."
ADDED: "Fishwife" is a standard expression... it has a Wikipedia article: "A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch.... Some wives and daughters of fishermen were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed, as noted in the expression to swear like a fishwife, as they sold fish in the marketplace. Among the reasons for their outspokenness were that their wares were highly perishable and lost value if not sold quickly, and the similarity of their product to that of others selling the same thing, with volume of voice or colourful language drawing customer attention. Also, managing alone while their menfolk were away fishing for extended periods made them strong and self-sufficient...."
BUT: A reader emails: "In the Clint Eastwood Movie Gran Torino, there is a scene where he is invited to party by the girl he has befriended. The party is next door and everyone (except Eastwood) is Hmong. Eastwood makes a reference to them as 'Fish Heads.'"
Ah! Gran Torino! The most important movie in the history of this blog.
The quote is: "What?! What the hell are all you fish heads looking at?!" Here's the scene:
Ah! Gran Torino! The most important movie in the history of this blog.
The quote is: "What?! What the hell are all you fish heads looking at?!" Here's the scene:
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It’s a trap.
Geez, look at those lawyers. On her side, we've got the girlz gangz, and on his side, we've got the old, no-ass guy in a bad suit and track shoes carefully making his way down the steps. They've all got that 'no room on the back bench, almost-made-third-string' look to them.
Looks like both sides are sparing the horses on this one, and only the Post has a game to make.
The notion of any woman bothering to make that guy a "sex slave" would seem to blow his whole case...
I expect these things did not get "said" in English. Maybe it's a poor translation, or maybe in Rana's or Hajdini's culture, people do say "fish head wife." (Though someone who says "fish head wife" probably doesn't refer to breasts as cannons; assuming (s)he meant breasts.)
Leland said...
It’s a trap.
🤣
The fish rots from the head. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #Whatever?
"The notion of any woman bothering to make that guy a "sex slave" would seem to blow his whole case..."
I avoided saying that in the post, but I did bat the idea around with Grok: "Chirayu Rana is a very funny looking man. How could he think he could pass himself off as a target for being made a sex slave?" I mainly wanted to know if people had been saying that.
Grok: "Appearance is subjective, but yeah—public reaction has been brutal on that front. Chirayu Rana is a 35-year-old Nepali-American former SVP at JPMorgan: slicked-back dark hair, sharp features, average-to-slightly-awkward build in photos (suited banker look). Not grotesque or "funny-looking" in a cartoonish way, but far from the chiseled alpha archetype that fits the "irresistible sex slave" narrative some memes have roasted."
To talk about it that way is to be part of a longstanding problem. There's a cliché reaction to a woman who says she was raped: Who would want to rape you? To report rape is to open yourself up to commentary about your looks.
If Shri Thanedar can get elected to Congress, anything is possible, including Chirayu Rana being made a sex slave.
From my experience as a sex slave, this all sounds perfectly normal, even expected and approved by the standards of my sex save support group.
Sadomasochism with elements of Diversity is a cause for mental discomfort and probable resolution in divorce, if not entertaining abortive ideation. Be nice to each other, boys and girls.
"but far from the chiseled alpha archetype that fits the "irresistible sex slave" narrative some memes have roasted.""
It's probably harder to make chiseled alphas sex slaves. You need someone with low self-esteem. I say this having never made anyone a sex slave.
The casual misandry on display is very disappointing, particularly coming from the mother of boys. The guy is a little unusual looking to us primarily because he is Nepalese, and we don't see many Nepalese people in our daily lives. Further, someone who drugs and takes on as a sex slave someone who was already subordinate to them are likely getting their thrill from the power dynamic and the sense of taboo rather than the conventional looks of the abused person.
"fish head wife"
This is a slur aimed at Laotian/Cambodian/Vietnamese people.
The guy looks like a live satire version of Mr. Incredible.
If I were empaneled on a jury, I would insist on having the plaintiff pick her bare corporeal cannons out of a lineup.
The cannons in question. (SFW)
It’s NY. If the standard of proof is E Jean Carroll, he may have a decent claim
"This is a slur aimed at Laotian/Cambodian/Vietnamese people."
I can see from the context that it's intended as an anti-Asian slur, because it's "your little Asian, fish head wife." Couldn't be more obvious. But it's not believable as something that Hajdini would have said to Rana.
The cannons in Known Unknowns image appear pert, plump, and yearning to be unloosed. She probably did it. Women lie too! Believe all men!
I haven't seen a survey, but I don't believe it's likely that a woman would refer to her breasts as "cannons." It's like something from a man-written comic book.
Maybe she’s a dominatrix by nature. Weirder things have happened.
"but I don't believe it's likely that a woman would refer to her breasts as "cannons." "
Except as a joke. I don't think you'd clown about your own body if you were trying to make someone a sex slave. I don't know. I could see how to make that happen if I were writing a screenplay. But this is a story of something that supposedly happened in real life.
That quote needs to be on a tight fitting t-shirt. It's a work of literary genius. The fact that it's completely made up is almost irrelevant.
"Ann Althouse said...
I haven't seen a survey, but I don't believe it's likely that a woman would refer to her breasts as 'cannons.' It's like something from a man-written comic book"
A bad one. Cannons? That's worse than funbags, which I also can't imagine any woman saying about her own breasts - "bag" conjures up... shall we say, the effects of gravity.
"Lawsuits written by AI for $100, Alex."
>>Ann Althouse said...
I don't believe it's likely that a woman would refer to her breasts as "cannons."<<
Hell, I don't believe she should refer to those silicon balloons as "breasts."
When I look at photos of the woman in question, I can definitely see her saying that, and the forcefulness of the statement has a viagral inspiration, but that's just me.
Men will rape anything. Not all men, of course, and not all rapists. Most men are only attracted to women who are… attractive, but there will always be outliers, the one-percenters who enforce Rule 34
OTOH, women are traditionally pickier about whom they rape
Mis-literate bazooms to bazookas to cannons
"[Adjective] head [person]" seems to be a thing in some cultures. I've seen transcripts with gang members referring to a bald guy as a "skee-ball head m-f-er" and an Asian guy as a "Buddha head m-f-er." FWIW.
50 shades of gay. #NoJudgment #NoLabels A line from Madonna after she transitioned as a material gender under RAAT.
fishstick three times fast.
“fun bags”… 😆 haven’t read or heard that in years. Thanks, Jamie!
I have avoided stories about this case. But you got me to read the NY Post article. All I can say is, "What the hell?" Reading the comments here on the blog—I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
She was goin’ for the Master Blaster… the Boss with the Hot Sauce… The Main Boy with teh Joy Toy
Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum
Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum
In the morning, laughing, happy fish heads
In the evening, floating in the soup
Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer, they can't talk
I took a fish head out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to get it in
They can't play baseball, they don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers, they don't play drums
Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino
In Italian restaurants with Oriental women
Yeah
👆 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9NCFJVakK8
Looking at a photo of Rana, he doesn't look at all attractive. If Hajdini wanted a sex slave, wouldn't she look elsewhere? Why have anything to do with him at all.
Looking up the ethnicity of the parties in any dispute seems to be our new national pastime. While it's true that "intersectuality" doesn't exist and people of different minority groups are as likely (or more likely) to insult each other as those in the (former) majority are to insult minorities, the quote seems made up. Hajdini is apparently Albanian (?) and thus, barely European herself.
The other day, I heard a clip of Hillary Clinton speaking and thought "fishwife." Wellesley College and decades of power and wealth did nothing to refine her coarse manner. To be fair, one might say that about Trump as well, but with Hillary it really is about her way of speaking, and elocution lessons could have fixed that at some point.
Bodacious Ta-Tas
I think SNL (source of the fish heads song) did a Weekend Update where Jane Curtin ripped off her blouse and bared her (bra-ed) breasts with a shout something like "Get a load of these guns!"* It was unrealistic then, and very hard to believe in this case.
* Actually, it was "Take that Connie Chung!"
'I bet your little Asian, fish head wife doesn’t have these cannons.'
New subhead for the blog?
uh oh.
"But it's not believable as something that Hajdini would have said to Rana."
Not sure. She seems she could be the alpha female type who could go over-the-top. There are women who in their desire to be seen as dominating, adopt uncouth male behaviors.
(This does not mean I believe Rana.)
"To be fair, one might say that about Trump as well, but with Hillary it really is about her way of speaking, and elocution lessons could have fixed that at some point."
Trump prides himself on being able to fit in with the blue collar types in his midst. Part of that is his unwieldly but relatable language. But, unlike other politicians who are wholly phony, he doesn't don the dungarees and chambray shirts in efforts to connect with the hoi polloi. He maintains the ever-present suit.
Perhaps bazoombas but not cannons. Cannons is not in the canon.
I've seen her pictures. Big, but not cannons. Might be fake.
"This is a slur aimed at Laotian/Cambodian/Vietnamese people."
It pre-dates that. American soldiers of the 1890s and early 1900s referred to Moros as "fish-heads". The term was also applied to Guamanian Chamorros. The habit of using such slurs persisted into the Vietnam War era. It didn't begin there.
Parisian fishwives overthrew the ancien régime. Many of the defenders of the Bastille were beheaded by fishwives, as were members of Louis's Swiss guard corps, and Marie-Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, whose severed head was displayed to the imprisoned Marie Antoinette. When they weren't selling fish or cussing a blue streak, the fishwives of Paris were cleaning and filleting their wares with huge machete-like knives. Wielding those crude choppers gave them the strength to slice off the head of the largest cod or the fattest Bourbon with equal aplomb.
I believe that the veracity of the claimed statement cannot possibly be assessed without seeing a picture of the wife in question.
As Rodney Dangerfield famously said: "Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it!"
Ya never know...
So what is a fishwife these days? It isn't a distaff vendor of piscatorial comestibles in the public forum, that's a given. It's any obnoxious woman who garnishes her vile politics with implicit threats of violence, in other words a Democrat.
Iman said...
"Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads"
Fun facts: Bill Paxton was in that Barnes and Barnes music video and Bill Mumy (from Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone) was one of the members of the group, Barnes and Barnes. (He was Art Barnes)
Except as a joke.
Like a bodacious rapacious investment banker can’t have a sense of humor.
Before judging the unlikelihood of the description, perhaps one should take a gander at a picture of the person involved. Not saying it is appropriate or not, just saying let's let the facts be reviewed before judgement.
👍 loudogblog!
For wider attention, you should have titled this post "Let's Take a Closer Look at Those Cannons"
Can we just agree that you can’t believe all men?
Fishmongering is among the few respectable mongering trades open to wives and lasses, along with cheesemongering and costermongering
Asshole v Asshole represented by Assholes
Which lawsuit does Althouse hope will fail, the claim or the counterclaim?
“Sex slave” appears to be the New York Post’s characterization not Rana’s. That put Rana’s allegations in a bad light from the get go. Nonetheless, if his allegations were fabricated and concocted, as Hajdini alleges, Rana should do jail time.
Rana asserts the fact that JPMorgan Chase was willing to settle for $1 million as an indicia of the truth of his allegations. The bad press JPMorgan Chase and Hajdidni have received since the case went public substantially undercuts that assertion.
Hajdidni‘s best indicia of truthfulness is that JPMorgan Chase investigated his claim and didn’t fire her.
Still, can you really say that a sexually harassing cougar would never describe a putative rival of her own sex as a “fish head wife” or refer to her own breasts as “cannons”? Legal advice to future sexual harassers: speak to your victim in self-invented non sequiturs.
Apparently there are a lot of trashy women working at JPMorgan Chase. 🤔 https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/business/woman-who-emptied-knicks-trashcan-on-street-then-stole-it-was-dei-exec-worked-at-jpmorgan-chase/
“Executive”, mind you!😳
Holy cthluthu
'I bet your little Asian, fish head wife doesn’t have these cannons.'
That's hot!
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