Yeah, its been a while since I've posted, I don't even know if anyone reads anymore, which is why I feel like this is a safe place for this post.
Pioneer Woman. I used to like her. I used to read her posts, enter her contests, try her recipes. I discovered something. I didn't believe her shtick. Her oh I am like everyone else, see me, love me, blah blah blah. She made her kids look whiter, with bluer eyes, with redder lips. She admits to doing that. She made her life sound stress free, while at the same time acting like she is like us. Yet you watch all that she does, and realize there is no way a normal person could do all that she does. She cooks, cleans, homeschools, takes care of everyone, takes pictures, edits the pictures, writes her blog, several sections of it, runs tasty kitchen, writes a childrens book, 2 cookbooks, a romance novel and films a cooking/reality show, all in a day. This leads to the thought that if you can't do all that, what is wrong with you? Nothing is wrong with you, you just aren't a multimillionaire.
Go to her blog. Once upon a time she thought it was ok to call her brother a retard. She said in post after post. Then, suddenly it was gone. There are still screen shots, proof that she said it, but now she has to be more politically correct. She makes fun of her sons speech impediment. She actually has a tab for people to listen to how he cannot pronounce juice bag. There are posts about her tossing her underwear into a coffin at a funeral home. I you read enough, and aren't looking at her through glowing eyes of worship, you see that she really is not a very nice person. There is the constant me, me, meness of the entire sight. You wonder if someone can truly be that narcissistic. There is not a post goes by without her making sure that she brings up one negative part of herself, is she trying to make herself seem more normal? Or is it a way to garner compliments? I always see those who try to make others see their faults like this as people fishing for compliments.
And her recipes. I have made a few that turn out fine. Like her cobbler. but most are greasy fat bombs. Even the ones she is making on her new cooking show. Pioneer Woman. Hmm. If I cooked like that for my family, I would be responsible for obesity and heart disease, and I would pretty much be asking that my husband die earlier rather than later. We eat pretty healthy, and yet his cholesterol is bad. Imagine a diet based on the way she teaches us to cook? And more, on the show, Pioneer Woman, which is on Food Network, her husband and kids don't even take off their hats in the house. And her son surfs on the tied calf. I already eat food that is not factory farmed, but if the Drummonds are the face of the ranching life and how cattle are treated before they go to the feedlot, I am really really glad I don't eat my beef from them.
Ree Drummond is a huge fake. She is a brand. I wonder if she even knows who she is anymore? If you even think to make a negative comment about her, you get attacked. People actually come out of the woodwork and let you know that you are just jealous.
I don't know. I thought about making this longer. But talking about Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, actually makes me kind of unhappy. And I don't want to be unhappy. Don't know why I was even thinking about this, other than the fact that I am tired of finding blogs I like full of love and puppy dog tails with regards to her. And with her show, the Pioneer Woman, its worse.
