And Yet.
By Apparently, Dr. Laura Schlesinger just couldn’t resist the chance to woman-bash. When she appeared on the Today Show this morning to discuss the Spitzer Scandal (TM), she had this to say:
“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs.”
Right. People are actually still saying this in 2008?! Apparently, yes.
Meredith Viera, who was momentarily flabbergasted, managed to eke out a question:
Finally, Viera managed to speak: “You’re saying the women should feel guilty that they somehow drove the man to cheat?” she asked.
“The cheating was his decision to repair what’s damaged and to feed himself where he’s starving,” Schlessinger explained. “But, yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.”
Right again. Because Spitzer is obviously a prize of a man and has treated his wife with the “love and kindness and respect” that she deserves. I’m just hoping that Jezebel is right: no one takes this hack seriously anymore…if they ever did.