I realized why fat people get such ugly piercings/tattoos/hair Body modification can be beautiful or horrible, and we all know when hams do it it's horrible.  I think I know why.  It's really simple. If you get a hideous tattoo or hair or whatever, then they can spin themselves a web of lies about their appearance.  The visceral revulsion people have to their appearance becomes no longer about weight, it's because they're "a conservative piece of shit".  It's because they don't allow the "oppressive patriarchy" to say their shaved head is undesirable.  It allows their disgusting appearance to be a matter of easy choices, rather than long term destruction of the self through trans fats and the inability to stop eating. It gives them a delusion of control over themselves and who they are, instead of the reality that they can't contain their behavior.