People Dr. Laura Schlessinger Has Pissed Off

Dr. Laura has pissed off a lot of people. Here's a list that I do not claim to be exhaustive.

[UPDATE November 2019: Per my permission, this list appears in the latest book by Dr. Laura, under the title of something like "96 Kinds of People Who Hate Dr. Laura" or something like that. I'm honored.]

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 (nor do the males have any rights over them) 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, especially with a white dress, 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. Feminists, and 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 everything on every date other than her cooking at home for him.

10. Men who want to date even though they can't yet afford to support a wife and kids.

11. Wives who want to withhold sex from their good husbands.

12. Parents who want to keep their adult children dependent in perpetuity or do not evict the 18 year-old or older offspring out of the home.

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. Guys who want their wives to stick the children in day orphanages so they can earn income.

24. Day orphanage operators and other business owners who depend on the above women and guys.

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.

63. People who think practicing their "new" personal faith is more important than maintaining family unity by continuing to practice, and raise their children in, their "old" faith.

64. People who think that sex, porn viewing, eating, gambling, or shopping can be addictions.

65. People who think addiction is a disease.

66. Parents who think it is acceptable for kids to have their own [smart] phones, tablets and the kids who want them.

67. People who think they or their kids should have a Facebook account (even though she invites people to comment on her show's Facebook page).

68. Anyone who thinks an agreement or promise between shack-up lovers matters, since they haven't taken marital vows in a legal marriage.

69. Anyone who thinks their marital vows still matter if there are no minor children and the other spouse has broken the vows, abuses substances or them, is more than ten years older or younger, has a significant incompatibility, or has some other red flag or serious character flaw.

70. Anyone who wants a prenup or any separate financial accounts for a first marriage.

71. Anyone who thinks it is OK for one spouse to have any passwords the other spouse doesn't know.

72. Anyone who thinks it would be beneficial to their child to have a sibling.

73. Cousins who have sex or marry (cousin marriage is legal in about half of the states).

74. Anyone who uses online matchmaking or dating services or apps.

75. Anyone who wants any form of mutually agreed-to nonmonogamy or proposes in-person observation of other people having sex.

76. Vegetarians who want to raise their children as vegetarians.

77. Parents who want to require their children to eat specific kinds of meat.

78. Anyone who thinks being shy or introverted is OK.

79. People who believe anything in their life, especially healing from an ailment, is an actual miracle, or that a Supreme Being intervenes in life.

80. People who believe in soulmates.

81. People who believe there are guardian angels or that deceased friend or family member has any involvement in their life now.

82. (Young Earth) Creationists.

83. People tho think bisexuals, bicurious, and heteroflexible people exist. (Any sex-like behavior with or attraction to someone of the same sex = gay.)

84. People who think midlife crises exist.

85. Guys who don't like it when someone, especially a woman, talks about what behavior makes a man a "real man".

86. Women or teen girls who want to call sex they later regret, or don't want to admit to their parents as having been sexually active, or mutually drunken sex "rape"; women or teen girls who have been raped but refuse to take responsibility for any bad decisions that left them vulnerable with a rapist (and their advocates).

87. Anyone who thinks is acceptable for someone other than the married spouses to touch the marriage bed, even if it is just their child who wants comforting.

88. People who insist breastfeeding should be done in any public place without any covering or blanket.

89. Anyone who loves or defends pitbulls and mistakenly thinks Dr. Laura has said something against them (she said there were a bunch in a shelter that weren't going to be adopted and she said they should be put down because they were taking up space in the shelter that other dogs, which will be adopted, could have.)

90. Anyone who identifies as a "cancer survivor" or "cancer warrior" in a way that implies they beat cancer by their own efforts as though people who were killed by cancer didn't try or weren't good enough at fighting it; anyone who credits their survival to anything but medical treatment and luck.

91. People who want to buy automobiles for their children/grandchildren/nieces/nephews, especially if they are minors.

92. People who refuse to vaccinate their children at all (unless they know for sure the child will be harmed by the vaccine), especially if they don't want other people vaccinating their children.

93. People who think nobody should get a tattoo.

94. People who don't think phrases like "limp d---" or words like "s---" should be used by a satellite radio host/podcaster.

95. Any woman who has been sexually harassed or assaulted, especially in a professional setting, who kept quiet about it rather than doing anything legally possible to expose and stop the abuser.

96. Anyone who thinks it is a good idea for someone to do a DNA-genealogy/ancestry test or to make or accept contact based on such tests, and anyone selling such services (see 16, 17, 19, 20).

97. Anyone who thinks pranks can be fun instead of sadistic.

98. College sorority members and their supporters and aspiring members.

Is there anybody left???

[TWEAKED AND EXPANDED August 20, 2013. Updated with #88 and #89 on December 21, 2014, #90 on May 26. 2015. Updated with #91-94 on August 25, 2016, with a few other slightly expanded. Added 95 and 96 on December 12, 2017. Added 97 on January 18, 2019. Added 98 on June 16, 2020]

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