I Hate Gordon Ramsey
Aah, Tuesday night television. First there is Two and a Half 'men'. What crap. It disturbs me that this show is popular, and it's just ruined Holland Taylor for me now, I used to like her in The Practice and Ally McBeal. Then there is the absurdly awful 10 Years Younger in Ten Days. Why do I feel that the show was made in Sydney. Maybe because the goal seems to be to make real people look plastic and fake, and possibly make the yuppy aging producers feel better about themselves. One of the few make-over shows that makes me want to vomit when they do the reveal at the end. Perhaps I just don't watch enough of them. Turning people into alien latex heads might be amusing, if it wasn't so depressing that they are so willing submit themselves to such hideous humiliation.
So are the contestants on Hell's Kitchen, which is somehow supposed to justify Ramsey's behaviour. Oh, they chose to be treated like shit, so it's ok. Never mind the fact that he is a fucking awful human being. There is no logic or consistency to what he says, it's just pure arrogant vitriol and abuse intended soley as a power game, to psychologically destroy his victims. There are two possibilities, he either plays up how horrible he is for the cameras, or he is actually like that, but either way it is loathsome. Does no one notice the hypocrisy, after screaming obscenities at people, when one person dares reply curtly, he yells 'How dare you be rude. I won't stand for rudeness!'... moments after having called someone a fat, useless sack of shit. Or when he yells hysterically at everyone, then tells them to fucking calm down.
He doesn't know how to complement or encourage anyone, the few times vaguely positive comments filter through his insane nasty hyperbole, they are patronising back-handed compliments to himself. The argument that this 'training' is somehow necessary to be able to work in an elite kitchen it complete and utter bullshit, espoused by people trying to justify appalling behaviour. It's just food for god sake. Yes, you can be a perfectionist about it, but the end doesn't justify the means. Nor does the supposed 'high pressure' environment. Do they train teams of surgeons by screaming hysterically at them? It's nothing but complete ego indulgence for a puffed-up, arrogant asshole. Ramsey ought to realise that not giving a shit what people say about you doesn't actually make you right, it just makes you a narcissist. I hope Gordon Ramsey gets tongue cancer and drowns in his own bile.
So are the contestants on Hell's Kitchen, which is somehow supposed to justify Ramsey's behaviour. Oh, they chose to be treated like shit, so it's ok. Never mind the fact that he is a fucking awful human being. There is no logic or consistency to what he says, it's just pure arrogant vitriol and abuse intended soley as a power game, to psychologically destroy his victims. There are two possibilities, he either plays up how horrible he is for the cameras, or he is actually like that, but either way it is loathsome. Does no one notice the hypocrisy, after screaming obscenities at people, when one person dares reply curtly, he yells 'How dare you be rude. I won't stand for rudeness!'... moments after having called someone a fat, useless sack of shit. Or when he yells hysterically at everyone, then tells them to fucking calm down.
He doesn't know how to complement or encourage anyone, the few times vaguely positive comments filter through his insane nasty hyperbole, they are patronising back-handed compliments to himself. The argument that this 'training' is somehow necessary to be able to work in an elite kitchen it complete and utter bullshit, espoused by people trying to justify appalling behaviour. It's just food for god sake. Yes, you can be a perfectionist about it, but the end doesn't justify the means. Nor does the supposed 'high pressure' environment. Do they train teams of surgeons by screaming hysterically at them? It's nothing but complete ego indulgence for a puffed-up, arrogant asshole. Ramsey ought to realise that not giving a shit what people say about you doesn't actually make you right, it just makes you a narcissist. I hope Gordon Ramsey gets tongue cancer and drowns in his own bile.
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