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[–] [email protected] 102 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oprah is the Joe Rogan of her generation.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for succinctly and precisely explaining why I really dislike her.

I've tried to explain why to my wife, but I feel like I've always missed the mark and she has implied it's probably a mixture of misogyny and/or racism. Which still may be true I don't really know. However, next time it comes up, I'll point out that I dislike her for the same reason I dislike rogan.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unfortunately, sexism and racism is so rampant from men (conservatism is ingrained into many men as a form of masculinity) that well-intentioned men who criticize toxic and exploitative capitalist women (esp women of color) are immediately lumped into that group of degenerate men. The reality of it is, Oprah is a toxic influence on women and gets off on creating FOMO among her impressionable fanbase. She created Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil, the former of which has had disastrous effects on women's health esp nutrition because he's a quack and pretends to be an expert on all things medical, and the latter of which oversimplifies most psych concepts to the point where laypeople think they're qualified psychologists now.