Dr. Laura on Women and Men
Dr. Laura Schlessinger says that women have the power to transform their men, their
marriages, and their own lives. She was on CNN this Saturday on ‘CNN:In the
Money’ to talk to Jack Cafferty about her New book “The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands” (Also here). In one of her statements she
said “What I’m trying to remind women is that frankly ladies, we have the power to transform our men, our marriages, and our lives
just by our sweetness, our thoughtfulness, our kindness, and understanding that there’s a male/female polarity. We aren’t
just two people earning money.”
She went on to tell men not to get in touch with their feminine side. That is “our job”, Schlessinger said.
She also that that “ladies, if you want to go on and on and on about something and not resolve it, talk to your girlfriends. If you want a resolution, talk to [your man]. But he is not going to sit there and talk about feelings; he will show you his feelings by what he does.
Dr. Laura and Andy Serwer exchanged this interesting conversation in which Serwer asks Dr. Laura about her book:
SERWER: ….one question I do have, Dr. Laura, are we really that simple? Are men really that simple? There’s something there [in the book]
about we just need a sandwich and some sex. Is that really us?
SCHLESSINGER: It’s one or the other.
SERWER: Sports?
SCHLESSINGER: From your woman you need to know that you’re her hero. It’s very interesting. If you are not sure that you’resimple, think of this picture. A woman has had a bad day, bad hair day, everything is stressed, and it’s really terrible. She
comes through the front door of the house, and her husband meets her naked and says let’s go make love. You know she will say
how insensitive of you, I have had a bad day. How can you just think about yourself?
Now let’s reverse that. A man has had a really bad day. Maybe he doesn’t even have hair, I don’t know. But his wife meets himat the door, naked and says let’s go make love. He has forgotten his day.
Yes, you guys are a lot less complex, that in part, your emotional dependency upon us and your lack of complexity here givesus the power to make our homes and our marriages so much more happier than we are. We are so much in sibling rivalry with
husbands as a male, female; everything I give you is somehow servility. It’s not. It’s called love. The giving gets you back.
LISOVICZ: Dr. Laura, first of all, congratulations. I have never seen Jack Cafferty and Andy Serwer speechless ever. SERWER:We are loving this. We are basking in it.
Dr. Laura, I love you. You understand us menfolk. href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/28/cnnitm.00.html" target="_blank">CNN: In the Money
I recommend ALL husbands and wives read her book “The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands”.
If you’d like to read the entire transacript from the show you can read it here:
March 1st, 2004 at 10:35 pm
Dr. Laura has said Women should be women, and Men be men. I agree, but mean no disrespect at all to women. She says that women shouldnt try to make there men be feminine. It only creates Frustration.
March 2nd, 2004 at 6:48 am
Right, I wasn’t trying to hint at all that she was meaning disrespect for women at all.
But if I, or any other male, tried to get away with saying some of the things she says, we’d be hammered down by feminists as male chauvinist pigs.
Anyway, I really like what she has to say about things.