From salon.com - something for me to keep in mind

Dr. Laura to Silda: It's all your fault!

Conservative radio host Laura Schlessinger has offered us a new theory on Silda Wall Spitzer: She drove her husband to cheat in the first place.

In the last week, she has been on "Hannity & Colmes," "Larry King Live" and the "Today" show, offering opinions like this:

"And 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. And these days, women don't spend a lot of time thinking about how they can give their men what they need ... I hold women accountable for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need."

On my part, TMI: my dad listens to this stuff. I'm wondering if he thinks the reason I ain't married, etc., to mda is b/c I don't "please" my man. My dad wouldn't go into thinking about what "pleasing" means (he's healthy enough to not even contemplate the obvious YUCK factor), but I can see him contemplating it. I suppose I'm overthinking the thing. On the other hand, my father does get some pretty odd ideas on how to "help" us when he's identified something. Eg, "I know a doctor who can help you" and "just admit you made a mistake," to my 2 gay sisters; and, to me, "I wish you'd get married and have kids, you know... the normal way," and "you're wasting your life & your master's degree was a waste of time and money."

Well, good thing is (for me): the man's been chastised enough that he won't voice these opinions anymore to us. For part of that, I feel bad that the man can't speak his mind, but then again, I've heard enough (see the last sentence of the paragraph above as an example).

On the last side of the coin, whatever: I have to wonder WHY I personally picked up on this. At least I have that much self-knowledge to know that I may be projecting something. Not what Dr. Laura said, but to internalize an unsaid argument w/my dad. Hmmmm.