The (Hilarious) Fa(t)shion / Diet Industry Paradox The Paradox is simple. It is thus:   WHAT FATTIES BELIEVE:- Fa(t)shion Industry: "Good guys who only want to make fat people feel better by supplying them with nice looking clothes." Diet Industry: "Complete scum that only wants fat people to stay fat and hand over their money."   IN REALITY:- Fa(t)shion Industry: "Greedy capitalist bastards who delight in fat people staying fat so their lack of self-esteem will compel them to indulge their consumerist tendencies all the sooner. They also provide a service which is mostly useless to people who are already unpleasant to look at." Diet Industry: "Actual trained professionals who have a genuine concern for the health of their clients and provide a service which, while requiring more effort on the part of the customer, will actually lead to solutions to their clients' self-esteem and health problems."   Does anyone else find this kind of hilarious? You would think the fact that they're going clothes/makeup shopping would be a pretty good indicator to these fats (and they're mostly fat women) that there's something wrong with their appearance, at least in their own minds. And yet, somehow, after all that mental gymnastics, they end up concluding that it's the diet industry who are the ones responsible for their low self esteem... you know, the folks who actually understand perfectly why they feel shitty about themselves in the first place and are actively trying to address that problem.   ...What did that study say about the correlation between obesity and lowered intelligence, again?