A stranger on the Las Vegas Strip called Layla a "skinny bitch." She laughed it off as a compliment. The speaker argues that insults only hurt if you decide to accept them as insults. Reframe them and they lose their power.
I was walking with Layla on the Strip and some guy bumped into her or something and he was like, "Watch yourself, skinny bitch." Like, he said that to her. And she was like, "You think I'm skinny?" Like, she said it like half jokingly to me afterwards. We just obviously kept walking. But I thought it was such an interesting thing is that he meant it as an insult. She chose to take it as a compliment, which then meant that like all of the, like these things that we, you know, we toss at one another, it's like, it's only because we choose to accept that it's an insult that it becomes insulting. Like, I'm sure someone at some point in your life has said something that they intended to insult you with, and you're like, oh, well, it's not that bad. I'm actually kind of okay with that. If I can make that thing okay one time, then I can do that every time because it's literally just a choice on how I want to perceive it.
