give me a FUCKING break

[mickeym]

Dr. Laura is on the Today Show right now, saying (basically) that men who commit adultry (they're talking about NY Gov Elliott Spitzer)...it's their wives' fault. The wife hasn't done her "duty" in making a man feel...manly enough, fulfilled, etc., so he has to go seeking that validation elsewhere.

Excuse me, I have to go throw up now.

Mother FUCKER. I could...still not accept it, but at least maybe make more sense of it if a guy was saying that. But another woman? I'm sorry, what century are we living in??

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[ephemera.livejournal.com]

**RAGE**

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

YES.

Y'know, I say often that I don't truly hate anyone...but I might have to make an exception to that for her. WTF, seriously??

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

the terrifying part is that she's not alone. There's been a very high profile case in the UK, where a man killed 5 prostitutes in and around Ipswitch, and his wife/girlfriend (I forget) was recently asked, in an interview after he was convicted, if she thought that, if thier sex life had been better those women would still be alive. In essence, that it was *her fault* that he killed because she didn't meet his needs at home. SO MUCH RAGE

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. Because, y'know, when I was married and frustrated with MY sex life, I entertained thoughts of going out and murdering male prostitutes. /sarcasm

I think these people are crawling out of the primordial slime of the shallow end of gene pool.

[als-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I don't listen to her. And I especially feel justified in not listening to her when you do a little research on her and discover that her degree doesn't actually qualify her to be speaking with the "authority" that she claims.

Her PhD is in Physiology, NOT Psychology and her California license in Marriage and Family counseling is inactive/expired.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't listen to her. But we have the television on (always, argh) at work; today we're watching The Today Show, and she was one of the panel of three 'experts', talking about the whole NY Gov thing.

I'm pretty sure my blood pressure has spiked about a zillion points in the last fifteen minutes. >_

icon directed at her

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Also, she had an affair with a married man, married a man with children, kept her family name, gave her son her family name, not his father's, worked outside the home while her son was still a child...all things she now castigates women for.

The woman defines hypocrisy.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Wow. She's even more crackers than she used to be. Holy fuck.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Well, y'know. Emotional issues/insanity, left untreated...

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

heh

She's projecting. BWAHAHAHA

The job I had right after college, the owner's wife listened to a station that played her every day and I used to get SO pissed off listening to her. Because WOW.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

"Wow" sums it up pretty nicely, I think.

It's way too early in the morning for my head to hurt this much. >_

[thehighwaywoman.livejournal.com]

What the hell?! She's actually...? Oh, god.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. She actually.

Gah, and now she's talking about whining (her new book, "stop whining and start living")...and the next time you want to whine at your spouse "you've left your socks on the floor for the 50th time..." she says 'stop and think about the woman whose husband is dead and how she'd love to have his socks there on the floor'.

*headdesk* Not the same. Because chances are the woman who lost her husband got JUST as frustrated with her husband and just. Argh. Must stop now, because I can feel my blood pressure rising by the minute.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

Since my husband is actually, you know, dead, I feel qualified to say that her logic is full of poo.

Neph's annoying habits would still be annoying if he was alive to do them today. :)

in other words...

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

feel guilty so you will do what they say and not expect anything of them!

[purelyironic.livejournal.com]

<irony>Sure, it's the woman's fault. *nods*</irony>

The second paragraph on her wikipedia entry is already enough. (Among many other things, she is apparently against: day care in lieu of parents staying home to raise their children, the viewing of pornography, same-sex marriage). And this woman has a radio show where people actually LISTEN to what she has to say? Where do all the stupid people come from? *headdesk*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Where do all the stupid people come from? *headdesk*

The primordial sludge that comes when the shallow end of the gene pool starts drying out.

It's too bad there isn't some sort of immunization against Stupid Germs.

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

So does that mean when a women commits adultery, it's her husband's fault?

The number of stupid people in the world never ceases to amaze me.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I can't even wrap my head around saying "it's _____'s fault that I cheated". If there are problems in the relationship, then fine. But to blame it on the husband or wife solely? o_O

Stupid is, as stupid does, as Forrest would say.

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Motherfucker, Dr. Laura is still ON THE AIR? Oh, wait, you said she is on the Today Show. Still. So much rage.

To misquote The West Wing (which, in turn, is quoting an open letter to Dr. Laura) - "According to Leviticus, touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? My daughter speaks fluent Italian, and always clears the table when asked. If I were to sell her into slavery, in accordance with Leviticus, what would be a good price for her?"

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I dunno about on the air, but she's still putting out books and getting spots on TV, anyway. >_<

Grrr. Argh. Heh.

Ooh. We should sic Angelus on her.

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that's probably the only thing that'd learn her. In Russia, we have this saying, which roughly goes like this: he/she is the kind of person who, if you spit on them, will say, it's just the morning dew. We have all kinds of crazy sayings, actually, but, I think that applies.

[lizliz.livejournal.com]

Randomly, it never failed to amuse me that Sorkin ripped off internet spam for TWW. ;)

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, but it made for such an awesome scene. Especially when Sam finished it up by taking her crab puff!

[lizliz.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Her Alaskan crab puff! ;)

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

Vermont maple syrup? In this White House, we have New Hampshire maple syrup :)

[splifford.livejournal.com]

Dr. Laura was, is and will always be a FUCKING NAZI! I can't believe that woman ever had, let alone still has, a career.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I know, right? In this day and age, even! She's not unlike whatshisname, Fred Phelps. They're two of a kind, she's just a little more subtle about it, I think. Insideous.

I wish we could immunize against stupidity.

[splifford.livejournal.com]

She and Ann Coulter need to get together and help each other cope with the staggering loss they have both suffered throughout life by being born without a penis.

Honestly, that is the ONLY explanation I can come up with for women who seem to really just HATE other women. I believe they are pissed off they weren't born men and have decided to take it out on all the other women in the world.

[nopseud]

People tend to get crazier and more right-wing the older they become. And when someone is starting from a base of 'batshit fucking crazy Nazi'...

[pyroblaze18.livejournal.com]

You have got to be kidding me

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I wish I was. I was appalled when I stopped to listen and realized what she was saying. Heh. And so was one of the other 'experts', and I wish I could remember now what she said--I was still in shock over what Dr. Laura said.

[cormallen.livejournal.com]

See, unfortunately, I am hardly surprised at this. My stepdad used to listen to Dr. Laura all the time in the car, whenever he used to pick me up from school (which, granted, wasn't that often) - and just having heard her opinion on pretty much everything back then, I cannot imagine she would say anything different. It still floors me that someone can be as big a hypocrite as she is, but even that's hardly surprising at this point. And that's fucking sad.

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

The FUCK?? You know, I told Mr.Nerd that I wouldn't stand beside him while he "apologized". I'd be filing for divorce. AND I'd probably punch him so hard in the nuts he'd never walk again.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I've never heard Dr Laura. I think i'd like to keep it that way. FFS.

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

She is a big part of what is wrong with this world. And why stupid men think they can get away with stupid shit.

What a fucking moron.

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

Dude, that is messed up.

[kaiz.livejournal.com]

I don't like to use this term, but imo she really fits the definition of Attention Whore to a T. The cynical part of me thinks that she's like Rush Limbaugh--doesn't really believe what she's saying, but says it to get attention/money/ratings/etc.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

i have wondered that about her too.

and to me that's worse, that she's out there trying to sell ppl this bill of goods she doesn't even believe in just to make a buck.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Nobody's turned her into a gagged submissive yet? WHY?