Dr. Laura is the worst

[livinitup]

I used to like listening to Dr. Laura for her no-nonsense advice during my commute home. I didn’t mind listening and disagreeing with her on occasion. It’s just radio. Then I was disagreeing with so much that it wasn’t fun. So, I tuned into other stations. It’s been a while.

For whatever reason, I tuned in yesterday and boy, what a mistake. Maybe she always did this or maybe she’s newly awful, but she really cuts callers off. Very abruptly, and mostly to just peddle her own POV.

So, the worst - Caller says that her elderly parents are in poor health and she is moving them 2,000 miles to be closer to her to attend to their health needs. Dr. L grills caller on mother’s “health needs”. The mother had a recent amputation and is in a wheelchair and needs support/help living in a wheelchair. Father is terminal with cancer. The issue? Father wants to buy housing with lots of land, even though he is terminal and wife has limitations. Caller wants them to buy a low-maintaince condo. And is struggling with them.

Dr. Laura declares that their purchase is “none of her business” and it is disrespectful of daughter to butt in.

Come on!!

Caller was literally saying, “But dad is terminal ...” as she was cut off.

I get that Dr. L celebrates that she is 72 yo and strong. But it is such BAD advice to say daughter should butt-out of awful financial decisions when DAUGHTER will be saddled with the consequences of that decision very soon.

Maybe I am wrong. It’s just so frustrating.

[rosiebear]

She has always been a heinous and wretched person. From the beginning.

[shopgirl07]

What? She is racist and homophobic. Has been forever. This is like complaining about Glenn Beck or Alex Jones being irrational. Of course they are.

[Leeham Rimes]

She’s always been awful. Historically, she hates women, minorities, LGBT persons , she’s never been a good person. (Or even an actual psychiatrist/psychologist. I think her PhD is in something like physiology unless she’s gone back to school in the last decade)

[kooshball]

I listen to Dan Savage. It's pretty good.

[mcsangel2]

Last time I knew of her show, it was 1999. I can't believe she's still on the air.

[fivechickens]

She is a horrible human.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Ooooh, I just Wikipedia-ed her, and fuck her.

[wambam]

I don’t know how you “listen and occasionally disagree” with someone who wrote a book called The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands.

JFC that woman is the fucking worst.

[dexteroni]

Aug 15, 2019 18:28:24 GMT -5 wambam said:

I don’t know how you “listen and occasionally disagree” with someone who wrote a book called The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands.

JFC that woman is the fucking worst.

This. She’s the worst and was the worst 20+ years ago when I first heard of her.

[af1212]

The mom of a friend of mine who I’m “friends” with on fb is always posting stuff from Dr. Laura and it’s always awful.

Mostly stereotyping female roles in families and giving archaic child rearing advice. I always roll my eyes when I see the posts but I had no idea this Dr. Laura was a person who gives people advice??!! Terrible!!

[boxertdog]

Yeah she’s always been awful. I’m guessing you changed.

[chimera]

She’s a horrible person

She didn’t care about her own mother- not surprised

www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-21-me-laura21-story.html%3f_amp=true

[NewGirlNic]

The only time I’ve ever listened to her she was telling a caller that she made a bad decision to have kids if she couldn’t be a stay at home mom. Basically shaming the woman for working outside the home while her kids were young. It was awful. This was 20 years ago... so yeah, I’d say she’s always been the worst.

[readyin07]

Omg she has always always been the worst. She is about as anti woman as you can get. My mom hate listens to her sometimes and she will tell me stories and my jaw is just dropped.

[yourmother]

I will occasionally hate-listen to her. She’s the absolute worst.

[imojoebunny]

If you need another reason to ignore her advice, Dr. Laura's mother was dead for two months before anyone found her. TWO MONTHS. Not the person I want to be taking advice on child rearing or how to handle your elderly parents.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-21-me-laura21-story.html

[notreal]

Aug 16, 2019 8:19:43 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

If you need another reason to ignore her advice, Dr. Laura's mother was dead for two months before anyone found her. TWO MONTHS. Not the person I want to be taking advice on child rearing or how to handle your elderly parents.

She's gross and a hypocrite on just about everything.  I had literally forgotten she existed until this thread.

[fivechickens]

It said in the article that the estrangement started after her mom abruptly left her job as HER secretary but then blames mom for the estrangement. That makes Laura look like the issue not her mom.

I loathe her.

[msmerymac]

Aug 15, 2019 17:15:42 GMT -5 mofongo said:

I had no idea she was still around, this is like a time warp for me. Lol

Seriously. My grandmother, a life-long democrat, used to listen to talk radio back in the 90s when she was in the kitchen, then complain about Rush Limbaugh and Laura Schlesinger's opinions. Okay, Grandma, why don't you change the station?

[af1212]

Aug 16, 2019 5:52:35 GMT -5 NewGirlNic said:

The only time I’ve ever listened to her she was telling a caller that she made a bad decision to have kids if she couldn’t be a stay at home mom. Basically shaming the woman for working outside the home while her kids were young. It was awful. This was 20 years ago... so yeah, I’d say she’s always been the worst.

This is what all of the fb posts my friends mom shared are about. I always feel so bad for her 3 daughter in laws - none of whom chose to be stay at home moms.

[cville]

I mean, she was awful enough already in the 90s that she was skewered on the West Wing.

So, always a hosebeast.

[penguintamer]

Aug 16, 2019 20:19:28 GMT -5 cville said:

I mean, she was awful enough already in the 90s that she was skewered on the West Wing.

So, always a hosebeast.

Frasier too. The Doctor Nora episode.

[joenali]

My dad used to listen to her way back in the 90s. I lived with my dad my senior year in high school. He gave me her book 10 Stupid things women do to mess up their lives.

Thanks dad!

I didn’t tread it.