I have just come across the TV programme which teaches women how to train their husbands like a dog. Can you imagine the fuss if it was "Train your wife like a dog"? I think it's partly the fact that it's done hidden-camera, without the husband's knowledge, that pisses me off.
Grrrrnghghggh.
Grrrrnghghggh.
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Date: 2005-10-06 12:04 pm (UTC)others that they really do respond a lot better to re-education by
example than to trying to talk someone into understanding themselves.
This is probably a complete and utter tangent, but proponents of CBT (in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy expansion) would probably disagree with this.
Reading through Chris' response below, I think he voices my main issue with the programme - that this behaviour modification is being attempted both *without the subject's knowledge*, and in a manner that I'm uncomfortable with, but I'm not sure why this is so. I think I need to watch some more episodes, paying attention to the suggested solutions to each problem.