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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Martha Stewart has made millions by taking decorating and entertaining tips from the urban gay men who invented her schtick, and putting it all into little kits than can be sold to suburban women who tell themselves they have no time to do this shit from scratch.
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You obviously haven't read much of Martha's work or seen her shows. She makes everything overly complicated and it is all from scratch.
I don't deny that her ideas are derivative of others; it is just that she takes other's ideas and makes even simple things way more complicated than they need to be. This is why I don't buy her magazine or watch her TV programs.
She borrows quite a bit from the advice/recipes all of our grandmothers gave out. Then she reworks it to make it more difficult to do whatever task it is that you are trying to do. But you get the same results or not much better and sometimes even worse results than if you had you done it the old fashioned way.
This kind of bullshit makes middle America feel sophisticated because they are doing something so much more difficult/complicated than the way their grandmother's taught them how to do it. They like that and they like her snotty "I am rich" attitude and her affected accent.
