Talking about you mr phil.

  • LemmyLaLibre@feddit.chOP
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    What was the moment you realized mr phil was a quack? For me it was when he had a man on the show who hit back after his wife assaulted him, and phil threatened to have the man arrested on stage if he got up and left while he was being humiliated and berated with things like: “there’s no reason to ever hit a woman, not even if she has a knife” and “you’re a coward” and “you’re scum”.

    That man was a victim of long term domestic violence and snapped, but instead of helping him phil exploited him in his moment of weakness.

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        Anyone who ran these shows ever is an ass. Talk shows were basically the precursor to annoying YouTubers today

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        Oprah is the Queen Mega removed of television. Hope that removed rots for all of the harm she’s done to society.

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      That’s some dumbass sexist bullshit which was/is wrong on so many levels. First, it degrades women by equating them all with “delicate flowers” who are supposedly incapable of doing any damage. Second, it implies that domestic violence is acceptable, or at least not as serious, if a woman is the abuser and that a man, supposing the victim is a man, should not be allowed to defend himself. For normal people, not to mention someone who sells himself as a sort of therapist, that’s some fucked up logic.

      As a general rule, nobody should be hitting anyone else. Gender is irrelevant. If someone is assaulting you, and you are unable to get away, then you should absolutely fight back until your attacker stops attacking you. Once again, gender is irrelevant. The fact that “Dr.” Phil’s tiny little brain can’t comprehend that is simply mind boggling.

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        As a general rule, nobody should be hitting anyone else.

        Yes

        Gender is irrelevant.

        Well yes and no. Gender is a social construct. You probably mean “(biological) sex,” which is very relevant.

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      For me, it was when he had a woman on his show who had gained a significant amount of weight, after being sexually assaulted multiple times, in order to appear more unattractive to men. Dr. Phil told her to lose weight, and to stop “letting men use your body as a playground.”

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      While I agree with you he is scum of the earth, he does hold a doctorate, meaning he can call himself doctor.

      Exposing people for what they are is most effective if there is nothing in your story that people can use as “See? You’re wrong about this one thing so you must be wrong about everything”.

      He is scum and exploits people, and I wish he would just go away.

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        I mean, i have a doctorate, but like Phil, I can absolutely not practice psychology. (In my case it’s because the doctorate is in Chemistry, not because I’m a quack and/or unethical scumbag)

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          Can you give me a source for that? I want to believe you but as far as I could find he does have a doctorate, and was a practicing therapist until 2006.

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            Yuck, can you imagine having him as your therapist?

            I’ve seen some bad therapists over the years, but nobody would hold a candle to this shitbag.

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      And you know Frauter Phil has hit a woman or two in your day.

      Someone that so far up their own ass and full of arrogance? Theres no way he hasnt hit a woman, and under far less justifiable causes than self defense during domestic abuse.