Martha Stewart

[chonies]

Oct 11, 2011 9:13:58 GMT -4 @mulva said:

Oh, my mom totally put our friends to work cleaning the house. They'd accept a sleepover invitation at their own risk! But wrapping your own Christmas presents? Am I overly sensitive or is that kind of mean?

Oh, I interpreted that as "wrap the presents you bought for other people" not "wrap the presents other people bought for you."

If it's your interpretation, agreed. Yowch.

[margojata]

Yeah, it was wrap the presents that Martha bought for her. Because Martha also told her not to look inside. Kinda mean? No matter how bitter and unpleasant her daughter is, it doesn't mean that Martha didn't SUCK as a mom.

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The Christmas thing is pretty mean, but is turning off the lights at Halloween and pretending you're not home really that big a deal? At least in my family, primetime TV >>>>>> giving candy out to others. We always thought it was fun to see how dark we could get the house while still being able to function. We felt like spies. Then again, my parents didn't suck.

ETA: But even if we hadn't felt like spies, it didn't mean that my mom was going to forgo watching Hunter to pass out candy. That is not tell-all-worthy behavior.

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Eh, I personally don't think that is a big deal. My gf's parents don't give out candy because their dog freaks the eff out when people come to the door. So, they turn off all the lights and hole up in the basement/family room. But in Martha's case, I guess it was just supposed to be another example of her either being a curmudgeon or a fraud (for pretending to like holidays and then really not) or both.

[divasahm]

The thing is, Martha has always made a HYOOOGE deal about Halloween in her magazine--it's supposedly her favorite holiday. It must gall Alexis a bit to see all the hoopla that Martha, Inc. puts on, remembering that she had to stay home in the dark instead of participating.

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Boo-fucking-hoo! I know this is terrible of me, but Alexis should be incredibly grateful for the life she has which is due to Martha's talent, hard work, and brass ovaries. I am a bit tired of the whinings of the extremely privileged. Perhaps Alexis needs to get involved in work that would help her to see beyond her own trauma -- issues such as domestic violence and trafficked women might get her to see how lucky she truly is.

I am not trying to discount her pain, but I think she needs to get some perspective. I read that NY Mag piece on her and she seems like a nasty, ungrateful woman.

[dwanollah]

I'm kinda with you, lena, and not just because I still have a girlcrush on Mrrtha and her cajones of steel. I mean, have we heard about Alexis being hurt, hit, threatened, abused, or any other problems? Has she not had access to therapists to deal with the Mommy Issues that every human being has? Jesus, lady, you have more advantages than most. It's not that big a fucking deal that your mom the holiday queen didn't engage trick-or-treaters.

[cancan]

I totally agree. Let us also remember that Alexis's entire career is based on being Martha's daughter. She hasn't had to have a real job a single day in her life.

[celerydunk]

I also wonder about Alexis being so bitter and now being a mom herself. I would hope having a little baby would soften her, but it doesn't seem to have changed her at all.

[cruising]

In regards to Alexis wrapping her own Christmas presents, my mom did the same as Martha. She told us to wrap her own gifts, when we got around the age of ten or twelve. She felt we saw how she scraped and paid on the gifts in lay-a-way every month that it was no big deal to do the honors ourselves.

Personally, my sister and I didn't care, as long as we got something for Christmas.