Dr. Laura has pissed off a lot of people. Here's a list that I do not claim to be exhaustive.
In no particular order:
1. Fat people. That's about 2/3rds of Americans. More precisely, she's pissed off the ones who don't like to be told they can and should do something about it, but that solution is not some magic pill.
2. People who like to imagine they are engaged even though there's no ring and no date.
3. Women willing to be easy, casual lays and shack-ups. Schlessinger rains on their parade by telling them they don't have rights over the males with whom they are having sex and that they are making life harder for decent women.
4. Guys who don't want females described above wising up about sex.
5. Women who insist on a large, traditional wedding and all of the traditional trappings and parties that have been added over the years, many of whom demand their parents pay for it, after shacking up for years and even making babies. (More generally, people who want their parents to keep financially supporting them even as they flagrantly violate tradition, morality, or parental sensitivities.)
6. Parents who have chosen to raise their children in America but still want their children beholden to foreign traditions.
7. People who want to take their young children to weddings despite a lack of invitation.
8. Guys who don't want to take responsibility for anything, but rather hide behind deference to feminism.
9. Men who don't want there to be an expectation that men always pay for a dates.
10. Men who want to date even though they can't yet afford to support a family.
11. Wives who want to withhold sex from their good husbands.
12. Parents who want to keep their adult children dependent in perpetuity.
13. People who think having their own child or grandchild sucked into a sink is (or was) preferable to giving that child up for adoption or raising the child themselves.
14. People who make money off of having babies sucked into sinks.
15. People who are in no position to provide a baby with a stable, married, mom-and-dad home who refuse to put the baby up for adoption.
16. Men who want to do something with the newly-discovered information that they have been raising what turns out to be, biologically, another man's child.
17. Anyone else who thinks it is important to tell children their father is not their biological father or that there is some long lost half sibling out there somewhere.
18. Women who have learned their husband has another child who needs a father and don't want him to have any contact with that child.
19. People who think open adoption is better than closed adoption.
20. Adoptees raised by decent families who seek out their biological parents/siblings, especially with "medical history" as the excuse.
21. People who want to be surrogate wombs, or egg or sperm donors for a family member or friend.
22. Organ donation advocates who encourage the practice of living children donating to parents.
23. Women who don't want to raise their own children or have made choices that make it much more likely their children will be raised by strangers.
24. Day orphanage operators and other business owners who depend on the above women.
25. People who want to intentionally raise a child without a mother or without a father, and "rights" groups that claim to represent them.
26. Divorced or never-married parents of minor children who want to date, (re)marry, and even make more children to the detriment of the children they already have.
27. Parents who drug their kids, especially boys, in response to normal behavior or normal reaction to the bad situation created by the parent(s).
28. People who make money off of such drugging.
29. So-called "children's rights" advocates who think that minor living at home should not be drug tested nor have their diaries, communications devices, possessions, or rooms searched against their will.
30. Pedophiles and anyone who wants to have sex with your minor children.
31. People who think quick, light swats on the tush are child abuse.
32. Parents who want to be their child's buddy.
33. People who want to place their parents before their spouse.
34. People who want to come between spouses.
35. Adult children of widow or widowers who don't want their parent dating (yet).
36. People who want power over their stepchildren.
37. People jealous of their spouse's deceased previous spouse.
38. Adults who leave children to die in hot automobiles.
39. The authorities who neglect to prosecute such people.
40. Parents who demand that all of their children simultaneously ace all advanced placement classes, letter in at least two sports, and master a musical instrument, even if they hate those sports and hate playing music.
41. People who want their kids to excel in gymnastics or football.
42. People who think gay or lesbian people shouldn't be treated with respect, and if they weren't treated with respect, they'd all become happy heterosexuals.
43. People who think the "n" word is so horrifyingly bad that only people of African ancestry should be able to say it... over and over and over again... and that if anyone else says it on the air, it is such a terrible thing that the clip should be played over and over and over again.
44. Pacifists
45. Adults who enjoy video games. (I do think Schlessinger goes overboard in her dislike of video games as recreation for adults, though I don't play.)
46. People who hate dogs or, at least, hate hearing about them.
47. People who make or watch trashy so-called reality television.
48. People who want to complain to their deployed military spouses over and over again about something that deployed person can't address.
49. People who want to hurt their spouse or alleviate their guilt telling their spouse of an adulterous fling or affair that ended.
50. Adults who were victims of childhood sexual abuse who still haven't taken any steps to protect anyone else from the abuser.
51. Any adult who knew the abuse was going on, but did nothing about it.
52. Teacher union bosses who think they should be in control of how children are raised.
53. Guys who admit to women they date that they watch porn.
54. People who think married people should never watch porn.
55. Women who like to think they have a magic vagina that can change a man.
56. People who don't want to disclose to a potential employer that they have a disability, medical condition, or pregnancy.
57. People who think it is a great thing that the Americans With Disabilities Act prevents businesses from charging people to accommodate their service animals.
58. People who like to blame every lousy thing they or a loved one does on diseases or addictions.
59. People who want to raise children in "interfaithless" homes
60. Therapists who like the steady income provided by clients coming to them to whine about the same things for years and years, and the people who like doing the whining.
61. Callers who want to go on and on whining, and the listeners who want to hear the whining.
62. People who hate Jews.
Is there anybody left???
A look at the world from a sometimes sarcastic, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, decidedly American male perspective. Lately, this blog has been mostly about gender issues, dating, marriage, divorce, sex, and parenting via analyzing talk radio, advice columns, news stories, religion, and pop culture in general. We believe that the Bible is right, life begins at conception, and government should be limited instead of being our parent. Don't take us too seriously and read at your own risk.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
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2 comments:
I love it!
And by the way, Dr. Laura, I know this won't end up on this blog but I just wanted you to read what a piece of trash I and many think you are.
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