If your goal in life is to look like Al Sharpton (shown here before he lost all the weight), then GQ tells you just how to do it!
As my readers know, I love to hate GQ Magazine. So after reading the latest installment of their ongoing feature about what other people eat, called “Real Life Diet”, I was heartened to see my new hero, New York Magazine’s Katie Heaney, step in and do the heavy lifting for me on this one:
There is so much absurdity that goes on at the offices of Conde Nast’s Idiot Child that it’s hard to know where to begin. A “style editor” who literally walks down the street looking like a homeless person, complete with a shoelace tied round his waist to hold up his destroyed jeans would be one good example. And some of the clown outfits in their Best Dressed feature. But I digress.
This “Real Life Diet” feature is moronic for its showcasing and celebrating so-called male “celebrities” suffering from and fully embracing their eating disorders. I’m on the fence about how irresponsible shit like this influences susceptible individuals, as I feel if someone is too stupid to look things up on Google that maybe Darwin’s Law should be allowed to prevail. But I also smell bullshit throughout many of these “Real Life Diet” features, knowing that the interviewee—if not totally pulling our leg—is undoubtedly NOT eating as claimed.
The audience however is responsible as well, as we are all free to pick who we wish to follow, to listen to, to believe, and if one chooses the latest trendy flax/kale/charcoal/coconut water nonsense being spouted by the Eating Disorder-Intermittent Fasting-Cleansing Crowd over meat/whole grains/vegetables, concluding that the latter is nutritionally superior for both good looks and good health, then have at it.
But, consequences.
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