I kinda agree. Not so much about fashion in general, but the malefashionadvice subreddit is as brutally monocultural of a circlejerk as there is on Reddit.

I'm all for improving your style, but fuck any subreddit that says anyone should ever wear a fuckin cardigan and a fedora.

"Transcendental" Meditation (Bad). Now as far as I can tell, this form of meditation is training your claustrum to disconnect from both the neocortex and your senses. I think this is addictive and can lead some people down the path to mental illness. Search for suggestibility dot org for criticism about this form and its somewhat dodgy origins.

Interesting insight, although the current theory of how TM works is that it inhibits the part of the thalamus responsible for maintaining connectivity between the cortex and senses (and the feedback loops of processed data that are normally fed back into the raw sense data), while allowing the part of the thalamus that maintains alertness to continue to function normally.

This has the effect of allowing an enhanced mind-wandering mode that strengthens the connections between the various parts of the default mode network, while reducing the mental static due to stress that we are all accustomed to.

Directly, TM is supposed to allow the nervous system to heal the damage brought about by stressful experiences, while long-term practice is supposed to create a nervous system that is less likely to be damaged by new stress in the first place.

Along with this it is supposed to enhance the physiological processes thought to be responsible for "sense of self" and long-term practice leads to a permanent sense-of-self that is present at all times, in all circumstances, whether one is awake, dreaming or asleep. This is considered the first stage of "enlightenment" in TM theory, and research on the physiology and psychology of people who report being in this state continuously for at least a year has been published. This review article talks about the published research on TM-style enlightened people and theory in-depth.

Mindfulness practices, on other hand, are well-known to reduce your "sense-of-self".

Your milage may vary as to which is better.

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As to whether or not TM practice is bad for you...

TM is the only meditation practice that received a [barely] passing grade of "Class IIB, Level of Evidence B" "TM may be considered in clinical practice to lower BP." from the American Heart Association in their statement to doctors about what kind of alternate treatments were justifiable to recommend to patients: Beyond Medications and Diet: Alternative Approaches to Lowering Blood Pressure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association while "all other meditation techniques (including MBSR) received a Class III, no benefit, Level of Evidence C recommendation. Thus, other meditation techniques are not recommended in clinical practice to lower BP at this time."

So, your characterization of TM "bad," mindfulness "good" isn't always the case.

Now, it is possible that for some people, TM is not a good idea. But, when you look how people in the worst conceivable situations respond to it, on the whole, it has a pretty good track record.