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Talking about you mr phil.

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[–] LemmyLaLibre@feddit.ch 149 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can be qualified and a quack. Look at Peterson.

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (13 children)

He actually hasn’t had a license for decades so he’s not qualified either lol

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[–] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course! I didn’t mean to say he’s not a quack, because he sure is.

[–] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

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."

[–] saegiru@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I always find it weird when people repost this acting as if Dr. Phil wouldn't have been in on the whole situation. It's not like the show was aired live, or that the guy wouldn't have had to been approved to go out on stage dressed like that by likely at least a dozen people, and Phil would definitely have been told in advance. So the guy was allowed to do it by Phil and the staff, and then the episode was edited and allowed to air, all for ratings.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

could also be angry staffers like what happened to james cordon when he couldnt even name a camera man after being asked (or maybe that was live idk but his staffers wrote the question). maybe too many witnesses saw it and not airing it would look shit or the network demanded an episode

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His producer either 1. didnt care, 2. thought dr. Phil looked like the winner, or 3. hated dr. Phil.

[–] Photographer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Or 4. Loved ratings

[–] Novman@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Television is a big show. News too.

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[–] dm_me_yabooty@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're both cunts who exploit people during their worst times.

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've gotta admit, that guy coming on the show with a Dr. Phil haircut is pretty hilarious. Take that, Thick Drawl McGraw!

I'm glad both Dr. Fool and that other guy who pushes super fruits and looks like Sinestro both lost their shows. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving couple of tools.

Sinestro lol, if you're talking about Dr. Oz he's unfortunately jumped into politics. Take a wild guess which party

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always heard he was a real doctor, but had to give up his license in order to do the show.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, he stopped renewing his license in 2006. He could’ve probably kept it. I know some non practicing doctors that still keep their license renewed.

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[–] ChickenButt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

When we come in ya gonna hear diss.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The likelihood that he didn't know he was going to do this, even if perhaps it was a surprise on the day, seems pretty low. He allowed him to do it. I really don't believe the guy showed up dressed ina Dr Phil costume, presumably hours before taping, and was able to sit around in the green room and go past all the producers and make it on set if this was going to be a real problem for them. Doubtless if they didn't contrive the entire thing themselves then they likely saw it as a gift.

If I recall Dr Phil refused to interview him, and made a big show of kicking him off the set. On the face of it this makes him look bad and seems to prove the guy's point. I guess he either thought he'd still appear high and mighty by refusing to indulge him, (yet suspiciously waiting until he's literally on stage to do it) despite the apparent statement it made. Or maybe they figured it would just make such good ratings that it really didn't matter if you allowed him to make a negative commentary about Dr Phil that probably goes over most of the audience's head because the visuals alone would draw people in and could be milked for the program trailers.

[–] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He can call himself "doctor" but he can't practice because the regulatory authorities took away his licence to practice specifically because his show breaks so many of their rules. Even Dr. Oz never got his licence pulled.

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[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

What the actual fuck is/was that a real thing!? That's indeed despicable

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

But if you do that, even if you see few or no patients, you have to get malpractice insurance

It has something called a tail clause, so once you retire from medicine you're covered from any former patients - if you keep your license, you have to keep paying

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