"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you"
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Joan Rivers drops this line like a one-liner in a fitting room: quick, sharp, and aimed at the culture that profits from your insecurity. The intent is deceptively practical - stop treating diets as one-size-fits-all - but the subtext is pure Rivers: we’re all being sold a costume called “wellness,” and it rarely fits the body (or the life) actually wearing it.
The metaphor does heavy lifting. Clothes are intimate, visible, and socially policed; diets are sold as private choices, but they’re really public performances. By linking the two, Rivers sneaks in a critique of status anxiety: people don’t just diet to be healthy, they diet to look “correct” in the eyes of the crowd. Tailoring implies measurement, specificity, and a professional hand. It reframes eating not as moral purification but as customization - a rejection of punishing, trend-driven eating plans that treat human bodies like identical mannequins.
Context matters because Rivers built her comedy on the tyranny of appearance: red carpets, plastic surgery, celebrity scrutiny, the brutal economy of being looked at. Coming from her, “tailored to you” isn’t soft self-care branding; it’s a jab at the machine that insists everyone should squeeze into the same size, then blames them when the zipper breaks. The wit is in the bait-and-switch: it sounds like fashion advice, but it’s really an argument for autonomy. If the diet doesn’t fit, the problem isn’t you - it’s the garment.
The metaphor does heavy lifting. Clothes are intimate, visible, and socially policed; diets are sold as private choices, but they’re really public performances. By linking the two, Rivers sneaks in a critique of status anxiety: people don’t just diet to be healthy, they diet to look “correct” in the eyes of the crowd. Tailoring implies measurement, specificity, and a professional hand. It reframes eating not as moral purification but as customization - a rejection of punishing, trend-driven eating plans that treat human bodies like identical mannequins.
Context matters because Rivers built her comedy on the tyranny of appearance: red carpets, plastic surgery, celebrity scrutiny, the brutal economy of being looked at. Coming from her, “tailored to you” isn’t soft self-care branding; it’s a jab at the machine that insists everyone should squeeze into the same size, then blames them when the zipper breaks. The wit is in the bait-and-switch: it sounds like fashion advice, but it’s really an argument for autonomy. If the diet doesn’t fit, the problem isn’t you - it’s the garment.
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