# Dr. Laura has finally completely lost her perspective -- if not actually her mind. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872 "2002-06-25T13:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/1 "2002-06-25T13:09:27Z")
I figure there ought to be a couple of Dr. Laura fans out there in DoperLand. I mean fans of the sometimes-amusing / occasionally-infuriating dingbatfest that is her show, of course, not fans of the increasingly nutty Dr. L. herself. Anyway, yesterday our dear Doctor had been bitching in her usual charming way about the public school system – restating once again her position that the public schools were not actually schools at all but “indoctrination centers for the left.” Some optimistic soul faxed Dr. Laura back with a rebuttal and Dr. L’s response was shocking even by her harebrained standards. Dr. Laura said, “This person doesn’t realize that there are _nine and ten year olds in public school having oral sex in their classrooms with their teachers present._” Uh huh. How about a cite on that, Dr. Laura? But no – she just dropped that little zinger and moved briskly on to the next caller. What a wacko. Jess ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/2 "2002-06-25T13:13:41Z")
I was driving down the road the other day, and ended up stuck in a traffic jam with some pick’emup truck ahead of me. No big deal, until I noticed the bumper sticker: “What would Dr. Laura do?” I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry… ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/3 "2002-06-25T15:15:50Z")
Not defending Dr. Laura **Jess** but I do recall reading that story not too long ago. As I remember it, it was only a single incident not an on going problem happening in schools everywhere. I would do a seach to find a link but I can’t think of any search terms that wouldn’t pull up lots of links I didn’t want (and I am not on my own computer). Maybe another doper will come in who remembers the story. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/4 "2002-06-25T15:21:21Z")
I remember that story too, but either she embellished it, or has a reading comprehension problem. It involved a 16 y/o girl and an 18 y/o boy, both students. Try a search in the Pit; I’m sure it was after the winter of our missed content. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/5 "2002-06-25T15:39:24Z")
Thanks **Stuffy**. I could remember hearing the story but, none of the details. Maybe I read it at the Straight Dope! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/6 "2002-06-25T15:59:55Z")
> [@](#): > > “What would Dr. Laura do?” Rant and rave about something she has virtually no knowledge of, inciting fear and hatred among people who know even less about it, leading to an overall increase of evil in a world already swimming in it. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/7 "2002-06-25T16:05:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\* > Rant and rave about something she has virtually no knowledge of, inciting fear and hatred among people who know even less about it, leading to an overall increase of evil in a world already swimming in it. \*\* Not to mention those awful nuddie pictures of her on the net. First they make her seem like a hateful hypocrite, and second- umm yuck, they were not very tasteful or attractive at all. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/8 "2002-06-25T16:07:28Z")
“Finally?” ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/9 "2002-06-25T16:10:19Z")
I’ll look for it, but I think there was a story a few years ago that involved some 10-year-olds having oral sex at school. But this was just ONE isolated instance, and the teachers were NOT present, they just walked in on them. But I guess that doesn’t stop Dr. Turkeyneck from making such an absurd blanket condemnation of ALL the public schools. And what did she get her doctorate in, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/10 "2002-06-25T16:16:21Z")
Uh-oh. She might be right. I did a Google search for “Oral Sex School” (you can imagine the porn sites I got), to find the one about the high school kids, and got this: [http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/32602\_news\_schoolsex.html](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/32602_news_schoolsex.html) But even so… Was the Good “Doctor” actually implying that this happened _with the encouragement of the schools_, or that somehow the schools (in general) are at fault because this kind of stuff occurs? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/11 "2002-06-26T05:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Surreal \* > \*\*And what did she get her doctorate in, anyway? \*\* Her doctorate is in physiology. She makes is seem like she has a doctorate in psychology though. Using her title of “Dr.” is entirely inappropriate unless her show was about physiology. I listen to her sometimes and she is a total ass. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/12 "2002-06-26T05:11:29Z")
Her doctorate as far as I knew was in kinesilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/13 "2002-06-26T05:22:58Z")
She’s a gym teacher? Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/14 "2002-06-26T05:24:56Z")
I can’t believe that people still actually listen to her dribble. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/15 "2002-06-26T06:38:03Z")
Radio Looney Tunes! A Laura Schlesinger production. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/16 "2002-06-26T07:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*I can’t believe that people still actually listen to her dribble. \*\* I think most of them are just waiting for the final dramatic blowout. The sound of Mrs. Laura gibbering into the mike as the men in white coats come to fit her for the huggy-jacket would be worth about five E-tickets at Disneyland… jayjay ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/17 "2002-06-26T07:49:35Z")
She lost me with a lot of shit **jayjay** as I had a lot of driving time on my hands before. I had the “honor” to catch her TV show and while she may have some wisdom to produce, she is crass and uncaring in her responses. In my opinion. If you want women to “close their legs” you do it in such a way that is gentle and caring. You don’t expouse (sp) the crap she does in the way she does it and given her 'sposed past. What gay’s do is none of her fucking business, as is a hetero’s life. Crap, \Frasier\ has more sense than that woman. ARRGH. She is annoying and worthless of radio time. We aren’t in the dark ages anymore, nor are we in the 1950s. She needs to get with the times. BTW, Dr. Phil…he’s coming to the “air” on Sept 16 here. He is unbelievably annoying to me. He only says you are wrong and doesn’t give you skills from what I have seen. Skills are lacking and that’s why people need help. They don’t need to be told they are wrong in their life, their thinking, people need to understand the skills that will get them through life. From what I have seen, he basically tells you that you are wrong and never gives you any purposeful skills to work with. This Pop-Psychology (sp) drives me up a fucking wall. It aint that simple given people’s circumstances. We all, each and everyone of us see things differently. It can not be cured in an hour’s program. If you could, there wouldn’t be a damn TV series about it. You’d go into the psych’s office and you’d be cured and not spend weeks, months or years in therapy. Dr. Laura, Dr. Phil…phuck that shit. It aint that simple to fix. ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/18 "2002-06-26T08:25:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GIGObuster \* > \*\*Radio Looney Tunes! > \*\* Aside from teh obvious copyright issues, that would be a decent band name. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/19 "2002-06-26T10:02:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Using her title of “Dr.” is entirely inappropriate unless her show was about physiology. Errr… why? Not that I’m a fan of hers or anything (I can’t even be amused by the “train wreck” aspect), but I’ve never heard of any limitations on how someone uses a title that they’ve earned. Is Dubya only allowed to call himself “President” when he’s sitting in the Oval Office? ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872/20 "2002-06-26T11:40:51Z")
If you have a Ph.D., “etiquette” dicatates that you can call yourself Dr. Joe Blow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-laura-has-finally-completely-lost-her-perspective-if-not-actually-her-mind/115872.md?page=2)