OMG!! What could Oprah have possibly done to elicit such harsh criticism?! This post required a little more than google search or right click + save image. I went straight to the source. In PN’s words:
“Yeah - I have long felt she can be real bitchy. You know she has those home decorating shows where she shows someone's home before and after? Well the before picture - she always sounds so ridiculing and judgmental and she thinks it's funny - and there's some weird undertone of what's acceptable and what's not as far as lifestyles go. It's easy for her to say when she has all these people doing the work for her; I just don't think she can relate to the average American lifestyle the way her audience thinks she is so good at doing! So I stopped watching her.
But earlier this week, they were watching it in our staff room, and again, she had a spotlight on some woman who is a major pack rat - they showed pictures of her home,
about how dysfunctional she is, how there's stacks of books and papers and piles of clothes and stuff everywhere, she can't even find her bed. And Oprah dramatized this to the max, had these crazy dramatic commercials of it, pathologizing this poor woman who just has some kind of problem - you should have seen this woman - she was in tears, sobbing, saying how embarrassed she was, that she couldn't have her own son over for dinner, and then Oprah has the gall to put her on national television, claiming it's "good for her"? Ugh. I just felt so bad for that woman...”
I love my friends and their fierce analytical powers!!
But, it's sooo easy to love Oprah! She's like our crazy aunt that we're willing to forgive for laughing at us because her honesty is usually so refreshing and sometimes kicks us into the gear that we need to be in.
So, I guess Oprah, if you ever ran for President I can tell you now you'll be at least one vote shy.
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