Netflix is premiering a new show with Meghan Markle where she’s going to attempt to position herself as a new Martha Stewart.
The makers of the show are so unprofessional that they don’t understand that the reason behind Martha Stewart’s outlandish popularity wasn’t her recipes or flower arrangements. Stewart has a phlegmatic temperament, which reads as low-anxiety. Her female fans were mesmerized by what they perceived as a non-anxious woman in a culture that plays up neurotic female behavior.
Meghan Markle comports herself as a standard neurotic. The persona of a calm domestic goddess is alien to her every faculty. That’s why she looks so weird surrounded by the same flower pots that made Martha Stewart a billionaire.
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“female fans were mesmerized by what they perceived as a non-anxious woman”
I wonder if that was part of the appeal of Julia Child as well. Not as pulled together as Stewart but she was very unflappable on camera and if something didn’t work out quite right she didn’t freak out but just carried on.
The closest British equivalent (though she pre-dated JuliaO) was probably Fanny Cradock who seemed…. very tightly wound and not relaxed at all.
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The Two Fat Ladies were a pretty steady pair of cooks.
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I never put this together about Martha perhaps Because to try to be like her creates anxiety.
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