Beauty with Cruelty

Before you write to complain I am not advocating wearing animal skins or pouring shampoo into rabbits' eyes (unless of course the rabbit has done something particularly unpleasant to you like eating all your carrots and then crapping on the carpet and not even offering to clean up after itself). What I am actually referring to here is the existence of television fashionistas who are self-appointed arbiters of taste and whose sole purpose in life appears to be objectionable and downright rude to people who have been foolish enough to ask them for their opinions.
But then we are all to blame for this phenomenon, just look at the plethora of copycat shows that develop from one original in a desperate attempt to get better ratings, just look at the rise (and thank goodness) fall of cheap and nasty makeover shows doing everything from personal grooming to ruining your interior decor and garden. At least the fallout has been intelligent and sympathetic programmes such as Grand Designs where the presenter comes across as being both pleasant and having a genuine interest in the project, alas this is not the case with things to do with self-improvement where we have the weird scottish woman who appears to enjoy looking at other people's poo and of course the excrable Trinny & Whinny