Dr. Laura: Women Share the Blame for Cheating Men. (See, it's mostly her fault).

MSNBC ^ | 3-11-08 | Mike Celezic

[ciocia]

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has never been one to shrink from controversy, and she leaped headlong into one on Monday when she said that if a husband cheats, his wife may share some of the blame.

“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said.

More commonly known as just “Dr. Laura,” Schlessinger made the remarks while participating in one of several panel discussions on TODAY dealing with the breaking news that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been connected to a high-priced prostitution ring.

[Republic of Texas]

Whenever someone told me I could do better or I deserved more, I never thought of it as punishment. But that’s just me.

[RightWhale]

The G Man, G G Liddy, said this also, and over ten years ago on air. It is true and it is reality.

[LYSandra]

Hey-I heard this morning the wife is the one that DOESN’T want him to resign!!! So some of Laura’s statements make sense in that the wife might have just wanted power from him and maybe an ice cube. He’s a dick supreme and I feel so sympathy for him at all but tell me how many of you women out there would care about the office and its power when you have children and have been humiliated beyond belief. This is what your concerns are when this is what you are faced with? I think this gives us a better picture of the home life of these two fillin whatever you want to call them.

[najida]

I used to listen to her about 30 to 45 minutes a day on the drive home from work....and I picked up her books at Goodwill....at first I thought she was cool, honest and refreshing....

Then I got tired of the insults and put downs and talking over people. Now I listen to music on the way home....I arrive much happier :)

[Antoninus]

No, the way “Dr.” Laura talks to women on her show, the verbage in her books, they way even the women’s advice sections are clearly there to scold the bad girls... her overall treatment and attitude towards other women.

As opposed to much conventional modern psychotherapy that scolds no one and affirms dysfunctional behavior. This is a recipe for generating a never-ending flow of clients, not truly helping to solve anyone's problems.

What I have found is that people who hate Dr. Laura really just have an aversion to the traditional values that she puts forth.

She treats her gender with scorn and contempt.

No, she treats with contempt the femniac lie that only socialization makes women and men different.

And for such a vile woman, her radio show is consistently ranked among the top 5 in the nation--even after the radical homos tried to have her thrown off the air. Somebody must be listening to her.

[Glenmerle]

What I have found is that people who hate Dr. Laura really just have an aversion to the traditional values that she puts forth.

Not so. Dr. Laura has done a world of good with some of her advice, but when it comes to the current subject, she is very much like the girl in junior high or high school we all knew who stuck it to the girls so the boys would like her.

By the way, I still boycot Proctor & Gamble products because of what the company did to her when she was putting together her TV show. I have no "aversion" to her traditional values. On the contrary.

[najida]

Never said no one was listening to her....people watch Jerry Springer, trainwrecks and boils being lanced.

Doesn’t mean she’s good, just mean she’s hard not to notice.
As for traditional values-—

Gee, you mean the value of implying you are a Dr. when your degree has nothing to do with your current vocation? Or having an affair with a married man that led to the end of his marriage? Or posing for nude pictures? Or being totally estranged from your blood kin?

She sounds like a paragon of conservative values all right!!!

Or biggest of all, not demanding that people be responsible for their own behaviors while feeding egos those she wants to impress.

[Republic of Texas]

So, generally, her advice is sound. Except on this subject?

[Glenmerle]

So, generally, her advice is sound. Except on this subject?

No. I wrote that "some" of her advice has been good, not that her advice in general is sound. And I've stopped listening to her. She makes me hyper in the same way Larry King does. That impatience with callers -- can't tolerate it. It's why I listen to Rush instead.

[Antoninus]

Gee, you mean the value of implying you are a Dr. when your degree has nothing to do with your current vocation? Or having an affair with a married man that led to the end of his marriage? Or posing for nude pictures? Or being totally estranged from your blood kin?

Does Dr. Laura stand proudly by any of her bad actions today? No, she doesn't. And as I said before, it takes one to know one. Dr. Laura lived a profligate life in her younger days and that helped her gain insight into what causes people to be immoral and dysfunctional. And to my mind, that gives her more standing than most PsyDs out there.

To that extent, she's similar to Fr. John Corapi, who, if you don't know him, went from being a millionaire, to a homeless drug-addict, to a firebrand Catholic priest who has brought tens of thousands back to the Faith.

She sounds like a paragon of conservative values all right!!!

She is. Many of us conservatives are repentant former profligates. Folks who preach that there is no repentence from your past sins are doing the work of the devil.

[najida]

I see no repentence, just pure cruelty in her.....and yes, it does take one to know one....

And I call her evil and a fake.

[Glenmerle]

To that extent, she's similar to Fr. John Corapi

I just saw him for the first time on EWTN a few weeks ago. Interesting guy!

[TexanToTheCore]

Some women fail too.

[najida]

I was arriving home or starting to teach classes angry and upset after listening to her....and it wasn't that the topics hit a nerve, it was like I'd spent 30 minutes watching someone torture puppies. I started out liking her and really grew to find her contemptible.

Now I listen to Flamenco CD’s if I need excitement :)

[Antoninus]

I see no repentence, just pure cruelty in her.

It's not up to me or you to judge her repentence. The fact is that she has publicly disavowed her previous life.

.....and yes, it does take one to know one....And I call her evil and a fake.

Ok, just remember, you said it, not me.

[najida]

LOL!

I was born a reprobate, so yeah, I dropped into seeing the dark ugly side of folks by the time I was 8....

She is what she is...and there is nothing good in her.

[Republic of Texas]

Don’t like the message, kill the messenger.

[najida]

Worked for the Incas!

[colorado tanker]

I found a lot of Dr. Laura's advice bad. She claims to champion intact two parent families, but in almost every situation I heard her presented with, she told the woman she was justified breaking the family up. Once a single mom she would tell them they had to give up romance until the kids were grown. Didn't strike me that people who took her advice would end up very happy.

I didn't like the way she treated many callers, either. I don't listen anymore.

[Antoninus]

Fr. Corapi on Wikipedia