I think the HUGE factor being over looked is our author and this chickenhead are in college. It is not the really world. So real world logic does not apply.

We've all seen Abercrombie models or even guys in GQ. They are emaciated but sorority girls buy US Weekly and watch Gossip Girl. This is their 'world' at that point it their lives. The want what mass media has told them to want. They can't think for themselves quite yet.

My suggestion is sack up. Do you. Make the grade and get your lift on. Earn that paper and look back and laugh at them both when they are both overweight lower income, and eating TV dinners.