An Explanatory Paradigm

I read an article today about how dieting can make you gain weight in the long run. Being a pudgy fellow myself, this paradigm seemed to ring true. My sociology training tells me that the whole skinny-normative pattern is a learned behavior imposed by the patriarchy in order to deny agency to the large-of-bottom. Bill says I just need to get on the treadmill. I say Bill is a tool of the establishment. Dieting is not a way to lose weight, but merely a Symbolic Interaction, playing out the metaphor of man's domination by residual Jack Sprat-ism.