The concluding line of that same Huffington Post article exposes why the group teeters so precariously on the edge of acceptability. “If you can’t laugh at yourself, for goodness sake let Women Who Eat on Tubes do it for you.” The very nature of laughing at oneself demands, however, that a) you know about the joke and b) you find it funny. If someone else is doing the laughing on your behalf, they can only be laughing at you – that’s the problem.