– the focus on refreshing the product line frequently is particularly harsh on female plus-sized clothing, as female fashion changes more often, so the product lines get replaced more often. So brands that want something different have to really go against the grain. – foreign manufacturers in places like Bangladesh have standard patterns for certain sizes and if a brand wants something different, they then have to spend way more effort to handhold the producer, pay more for manufacturing, experience delays because the manufacturers will more often get it wrong, etc. – the fashion industry is rather f’ed up in general, having an androgynous ideal (see fashion shows with men and women who often seem pre-puberty when it comes to their body) – people who choose fashion tend to be thin and often design for themselves and/or their thin friends – fashion design schools don’t teach to design for plus-size clothing □ Or perhaps I’m just not paying attention (shopping is not my LebovitzĪfter googling a bit, it now seems more plausible to me that there are a variety of reasons that all work in concert. The resulting low number of potential consumers for each size+body type variant then makes it often unprofitable to offer the clothes for the same price as clothing for more typical perhaps the Dutch consumers are less rational than the ones near you. If the same is true for clothing, then fat people are doubly screwed, because as you argue, they not only need a more rare size, but they also need more body type variants. The market is optimizing to the (strong?) consumer preference for the same price for all shoe sizes. This effectively is a subsidy by buyers with common shoe sizes to buyers with rare sizes, but also has the effect of cutting off part of the market. Instead, shops simply don’t carry shoes above and below a certain size, where the cost of stocking that size is higher than the profit.Īpparently, shoe buyers are economically irrational and refuse to pay for the rarity of their shoe size. That would be logical, since the profitability of stocking an item goes down substantially if the number of potential customers is lower. My experience is that stores don’t change the price of different sizes of shoes depending on the number of potential customers who have that shoe size. While we’re at it, I think there’s a sort of depression which manifests as the ability to engage in and enjoy hobbies while finding it extraordinarily difficult to take care of oneself. Sometimes it does feel like “Do I dare disturb the universe?” Excessively punitive early authority figure? Combination of punitive and nurtuting, so it really feels safest to do nothing? Anxious authority figure, who’s uncomfortable at a child showing initiative? And a further suggestion that fawn (make nice to potentially dangerous people) should be in the mix.) Or maybe connecting outcomes and action has a component which isn’t about vividness.Īny thoughts about whether depression is related to a freeze reaction? (I’ve heard it said that it’s not just fight or flight, it’s fight, flight, or freeze. I believe that part of depression is having difficulty imagining positive outcomes vividly enough to impel action. I have some problems along those lines myself. In re difficulties with taking action to improve one’s life: Similar to the way you referred to Salafist Jihadism as if it was the sole philosophical source for Islamist terrorist violence, when in fact it is simply the most recent and currently most influential strain of it. Simply referring to the core text, or even to any one scholar’s interpretation and exegesis or even a large school’s interpretation of that text does not give you a complete picture. We humans are really good at reading what we want into texts and twisting them around to support courses of action we want to do. This is the same fundamental problem as the Bible and associated Christian exegesis. And yet there is a massive breadth in that exegesis that allows for one Imam to say that obviously the killing of innocent Muslims in the course of physical Jihad is sinful, and for another to say that obviously the killing of innocent Muslims in the course of physical Jihad is forgiven because those Muslims are then blessed martyrs who will go straight to heaven and that any blame and sin lies with the enemies of Islam for making the Jihad necessary.
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