Mildly Infuriating

I am extremely skinny and look unhealthy and kinda similar to the model in that way, even though I eat normally and I think even very healthy. My dad looks like that too. Being 2 meters tall also doesn't exactly help. Just saying that you shouldn't judge people so easily and you can hurt someone also pretty easily. Some people just have being fat or skinny in their genes.

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I think it's a bit distasteful to armchair diagnose someone you don't know, though

It's a growing demographic

Moisturize me!

if it’s not my body, it’s none of my fucking business.

Please don't be obtuse. When it gets put into an ad campaign aimed at me and the 99.9% of other people where looking like would be extremely bad for our own personal health, it becomes our business.

Look at it another way, a year ago would you have said to an antivaxxer / antimasker "who am I to judge"? The effects here are much more subtle and take more time, but the same logic applies, and the results of inaction are no less insidious.

So sure, all right, maybe a single person might be all right without a vaccine/without a mask/eating only 30 calories a day, but that is not something that should be encouraged. And the dumbass republicans/marketers who spread this behavior should be called out and shamed.

While it's true that you hit a point of diminishing returns, there's a sharp divide between, say, a $200 bag and a $20 bag. Technically a plastic shopping bag will serve the same purpose as a purse, but it's likely to break in less than a day. A $20 bag might last a few months of daily use if you're careful, but it's going to have cheap/non-durable materials, have cheap findings, and be poorly made. At $200, the odds are pretty high that it's going to be well made, use solid materials that will last, and have fittings that aren't going to corrode, fall off, or break in a few months.

I have a designer wallet that I've used every day for over 15 years, and while it looks beat up, it's still fully intact. I averaged about one every 3-4 years before I got this one.

See also: Cap'n Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Because they get to show off. Other people see it and they feel bad for not having access to the resources required to do this. And you know what? All of us do this shit in some way or another. Fancy cars, vanity muscles that don't actually help you, talent in things that have no real practical value, fancy collections, big house. All of us are performing, trying to tell the world "I am so amazing I can afford this waste". And if we have nothing to brag about we can always brag about our indifference. As if all of us secretly didn't wish deep down that they had so much money they could spend $2k on what should be 20.

I think you understand it perfectly fine, you just don't like what it implies about us all.

I just don’t understand the appeal of paying $3,000 for a handbag when a $20 handbag will can do just the same thing.

The appeal is that a $3,000 handbag sends a signal, one that you have $3,000 to spend on a handbag and are the type of person who would do such a thing.

/s

Right?

Weight aside, that haircut is atrocious.