I remember Dr. Laura's show being a pretty good, snappy advice program back in the day before she took up politics (or before she let her politics take over the show.)She was always kind of a meanspirited jerk, actually. She almost never took a call that didn't involve her telling someone why they were a terrible person doing something terribly wrong. But when I first became aware of her she was a meanspirited, not-bigoted jerk. I specifically remember, for instance, that her rule for gay couples was exactly the same as her rule for straight couples: no sex until you've made a life-long commitment. She caught homophobia at exactly the same time that she realized it would be lucrative to hook up with the Christian right. A massive coinkidink, I'm sure.
I saw the naked pictures of you on the internet. There are some things a man wishes he could just unsee! I didn't have even one impure thought. It was worse than the time I watched the "2 Girls 1 Cup" video. Have you ever seen that? It's disgusting.I didn't expect a reply, but it did make me feel better.
Speaking of photos...can I get an autographed one? I prefer one where your clothes are on, but that's really up to you.
NIGEL Don’t touch it! Don’t touch it! No one...no one...no! Don’t touch it. MARTY Well uh I wasn’t...uh I wasn’t gonna touch it...I was just pointing at it...I.... NIGEL Well don’t point, even. MARTY Don’t even point? NIGEL No. It can’t be played...never...I mean I.... MARTY Can I look at it? NIGEL No.
Any method of conveying that she is a bad person is perfectly legitimate.Bullshit. When you insult Dr. Laura by calling her physically repulsive, you harness the power of misogyny to make your point. You call upon the power that every man has over every woman to remind us that our value rests on your personal appraisal of whether you'd like to fuck us. And saying that didn't hurt Dr. Laura, because she'll never read it. Her personal assistant will read the letter and throw it away. But I read it. And I was reminded that every guy in the world has the power to put me in my place by telling me I'm hideous and unfuckable, because my value as a human being in my society rests in part on whether men want to have sex with me.
There is no authority that reserves the title "Esquire" for the exclusive use of lawyers.posted by XMLicious at 12:32 AM on August 14, 2010
Determining whether they did the work or not is not my job; my job, as a decent human being with concern for the standards of politeness, is to call people what they would prefer to be called and to respect the institution that issued their degree--and unless it's actually a diploma mill, that institution and the people that have graduated from it deserves at least my verbal respect.Ok, seriously? This is someone who has exploited the false impression that she's an authority on people's personal problems. She's done that so she can build for herself an extremely lucrative career. That career is based on convincing desperate people, who have nowhere else to turn, to seek her advice, and then humiliating and berating them publicly. She humiliates and berates them in a manner that is intended to uphold social hierarchies: she uses her false authority to undermine efforts by gay people, women, members of racial minorities, non-religious people, people who don't think sex is dirty and shameful, and other marginalized groups to seek equality. Her bad advice hurts the desperate people who call her, and her underlying effort hurts all of us.
‘Doctor’ doesn't mean ‘deserving of respect.’
...when you refuse to use the honorific with someone who wants you to use it with them, you are implying that their school and all of their classmates are frauds, which is not, I think, a helpful thing to imply about someone.
"Strange, strange people, the Chinese, Culum," Struan said. "For instance; only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, ‘From now on, only I am allowed to use vermilion,’ as much as we love her, forty thousand Britons would instantly forswear all ink but vermilion."posted by XMLicious at 5:29 PM on August 14, 2010
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