The Pioneer Woman -- Love her? Don't love her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PW is using the "building" to drive site traffic. It's the same pretense she used when she built the TV studio on her property, but couched it as a guest house renovation. LOL, sorry, most municipalities require submission of building permits, blueprints and architectural plans prior to construction. The PW knows damn well what that place is going to be but why say so, when you can cloak the whole charade in mystery and collect ad dollars for site clicks.

…so? She's a business woman. She wants her blog to make money. Why is this evil?

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

[Anonymous]

I love Ina, and Jeffery, and I like Ree Drummond too...she seems like a sweet person. Haven't tried any of her recipes, though.

I could do without Rachel Ray and Guy Fieri.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PW is using the "building" to drive site traffic. It's the same pretense she used when she built the TV studio on her property, but couched it as a guest house renovation. LOL, sorry, most municipalities require submission of building permits, blueprints and architectural plans prior to construction. The PW knows damn well what that place is going to be but why say so, when you can cloak the whole charade in mystery and collect ad dollars for site clicks.

…so? She's a business woman. She wants her blog to make money. Why is this evil?

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Ok, so, don't visit her blog, watch her show or buy her books. Boom, problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PW is using the "building" to drive site traffic. It's the same pretense she used when she built the TV studio on her property, but couched it as a guest house renovation. LOL, sorry, most municipalities require submission of building permits, blueprints and architectural plans prior to construction. The PW knows damn well what that place is going to be but why say so, when you can cloak the whole charade in mystery and collect ad dollars for site clicks.

…so? She's a business woman. She wants her blog to make money. Why is this evil?

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Sounds like she paid attention in class.

No big deal. Odd that you are so emotionally invested in a food blogger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PW is using the "building" to drive site traffic. It's the same pretense she used when she built the TV studio on her property, but couched it as a guest house renovation. LOL, sorry, most municipalities require submission of building permits, blueprints and architectural plans prior to construction. The PW knows damn well what that place is going to be but why say so, when you can cloak the whole charade in mystery and collect ad dollars for site clicks.

…so? She's a business woman. She wants her blog to make money. Why is this evil?

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Ok, so, don't visit her blog, watch her show or buy her books. Boom, problem solved.

Doesn't seem like PP really has a problem.

[Anonymous]

Don't lover her

[Anonymous]

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Agreed. But the reeple squatters will be back on the attack shortly. They offer such great advice: "don't read her blog," "don't buy her books," "don't watch the show." Too bad they don't follow some of it and leave this site. Combating PW negativity must pay well.

[Anonymous]

So the IG bio is a little disingenuous - she worked at OMB, in a career Fed position, on nuclear issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Agreed. But the reeple squatters will be back on the attack shortly. They offer such great advice: "don't read her blog," "don't buy her books," "don't watch the show." Too bad they don't follow some of it and leave this site. Combating PW negativity must pay well.

Actually you haters are driving people to her site. You are a marketing dream come true!

I've NEVER looked at her site until this topic came up, but I just wasted 20 min of my life digging around on there. If her show is on fios, I'll dig it up tonight and see what this is all about.

I don't see the big deal, she seems to be a clever internet personality who have capitalized well for herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Agreed. But the reeple squatters will be back on the attack shortly. They offer such great advice: "don't read her blog," "don't buy her books," "don't watch the show." Too bad they don't follow some of it and leave this site. Combating PW negativity must pay well.

Actually you haters are driving people to her site. You are a marketing dream come true!

I've NEVER looked at her site until this topic came up, but I just wasted 20 min of my life digging around on there. If her show is on fios, I'll dig it up tonight and see what this is all about.

I don't see the big deal, she seems to be a clever internet personality who have capitalized well for herself.

Congrats on your new fandom! Hope you have better luck with her recipes than I did. I would bet that an equal amount of traffic has gone to Marlboro Woman, Pioneer Woman Sux, and Pie Near Woman, too. It was enlightening for me to read comments from real ranch wives about real everyday ranching wife lives at those sites, and I wish I could find more blogs about that day-to-day living and working on a ranch. When I was a little girl, I wanted more than anything to be a farmer; the realities of money and the amount of time and work required changed my mind (that and a fear of livestock), but the lifestyle still fascinates me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wanting to make money is not evil. Pretending that she's just a little ol' ranch wife, no different than any other ranch wife, except for this little ol' blog that she started on a whim and writes herself and jinkie! look how it took off . . . yuck.

She was a marketing major, and it paid off. Fine. But her tactics are sleazy (from what I read on the MW site, which I, like a lot of people, used to visit when the scales first fell from my eyes) and her product sucks.

Agreed. But the reeple squatters will be back on the attack shortly. They offer such great advice: "don't read her blog," "don't buy her books," "don't watch the show." Too bad they don't follow some of it and leave this site. Combating PW negativity must pay well.

Actually you haters are driving people to her site. You are a marketing dream come true!

I've NEVER looked at her site until this topic came up, but I just wasted 20 min of my life digging around on there. If her show is on fios, I'll dig it up tonight and see what this is all about.

I don't see the big deal, she seems to be a clever internet personality who have capitalized well for herself.

Congrats on your new fandom! Hope you have better luck with her recipes than I did. I would bet that an equal amount of traffic has gone to Marlboro Woman, Pioneer Woman Sux, and Pie Near Woman, too. It was enlightening for me to read comments from real ranch wives about real everyday ranching wife lives at those sites, and I wish I could find more blogs about that day-to-day living and working on a ranch. When I was a little girl, I wanted more than anything to be a farmer; the realities of money and the amount of time and work required changed my mind (that and a fear of livestock), but the lifestyle still fascinates me.

I think I'll stick to my Ina and Food 52. Her recipes are a bit elementary for me.

Fortunately, I'm really not interested in reading blogs or websites dedicated to trashing people, nor am I fascinated by the ranch life. Pretty boring hearing about cattle eat grass and reading someone drone on and on about a Food blogger of all things.

[Anonymous]

I think I'll stick to my Ina and Food 52. Her recipes are a bit elementary for me.

Fortunately, I'm really not interested in reading blogs or websites dedicated to trashing people, nor am I fascinated by the ranch life. Pretty boring hearing about cattle eat grass and reading someone drone on and on about a Food blogger of all things.

I'm with you sista. But after reading how the PW threw one of her former home school contributors under the bus, I'm understanding people's outrage a tad better.

[Anonymous]

Whoa, this thread is bananas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa, this thread is bananas.

Yup...the obsession is odd...I never knew.

[Anonymous]

This thread is so crazy. I am pretty positive people from these crazy sights found the forum and are sock puppeting the hell out of this thread. And trying to make normal people seem crazy. It is so surreal!