She may be young in years, but 19-year-old Vanessa Papastavros already knows the agony of being "paid" a backhanded, sexist compliment. So she's drawn the perfect responses to the passive-aggressive body-shaming anti-compliments we've all heard - and they're awesome. Here's a sampling.
These Are the Perfect Comebacks to Backhanded Compliments ...
Hair Color • "Too Tall" • Racism Much? • "still" Single • Style Sense • More ...
1. Hair Color
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2. "Too Tall"
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3. Racism Much?
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4. "still" Single
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5. Style Sense
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6. No Wife for You!
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7. I Knew!
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8. Make-up Madness
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9. Photo-Ready
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10. What?!
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11. Blond?
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12. Butt out!
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13. A Weighty Issue
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14. I See
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15. Courage?
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16. Hair
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17. Classy!
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18. Sisters!
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19. Lookin' Good!
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20. A Meal? What?
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21. STFU
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22. Make-up?
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23. Flattery
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24. I Hate This One...
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25. Boobs
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26. My Face!
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27. Asian...
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28. Pretty Face
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And a few extra bonus panels, just in case...
29. In Case You Didn't Know...
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30. To All the Haters
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31. Works in Every Scenario, Actually...
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32. Actually... Nope!
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33. You Should!
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To see more of Vanessa's amazingly fabulous work, follow her on Tumblr at vanscribbles.tumblr.com. Seriously. Do it now!
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