And he ain't half-bad. Man, Good Morning America is another world. It's amazing to see this dude cross-over, and see the times. You got this black dude giving relationship advice to black, white, Asian women. Perhaps it shouldn't be that shocking. But I was born in 75, we didn't really have that in the 80s. We had more in the 90s. But now...
Anyway, Good for Steve.
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Good for him, indeed. I've always said we need more marital advice from twice-divorced, thrice-married philanderers.
Yeah, good for him.
Steve has been married twice and on his third. If anybody should know, it's him. Bought his book and gave it away to a friend before I finished it. I realized that I would just go with the flow in my relationships and not try to put my partner or myself through any type of test. Life is too short. The best advice I ever got was- Never have sex with someone that has more problems than you and Know the difference between fun and happiness. Still working on these pearls of wisdom though....
Never have sex with someone that has more problems than you,/i>
Um, unless you can ascertain that you and your potential lover have the exact same number of problems, wouldn't this rule mean that no one would ever have any sex?
The other half of this piece of advice is "Never share this advice with anyone you might want to have sex with."
I have so many issues with the infatuation mainstream America seems to have with Steve Harvey and his so called advice. Honestly, I just don't get his appeal. And until he can actually put in time and make a marriage work, I won't be tuning in to his brand of relationship and marital advice.
lol. I was about to post the same thing. Steve Harvey doling out relationship advice is like Kim Kardashian giving career advice.
Other than the sex tape, Kim Kardashian has done nothing but look pretty and make millions of dollars doing it (nothing).
I don't know about you, but doing nothing and earning millions is kinda my dream job!
I didn't see the segment, but up until now, his efforts outside of his radio show have been moreso about insights into how men think, not really marriage advice. Peopel have been conflating the two for a while now, but those were dsitinct with him up until now. If he's taking on this new tack, then all the better for him.
You're really hitting at the source of the problems with relationship books, they're really marketed solely at women to instruct them what theyre doing wrong in their relationship and how they need to change what theyre doing to be happy. The emphasis is always on the woman to be the one changing and fixing her attitude to have a good relationship. By giving these women the "inside scoop" to what men think, which men should find insulting too, its reductive as hell, theyre saying with this knowledge you can make yourself the person that men stay with. All people are flawed, many women have a variety of issues that men don't because of cultural expectations and sexism, but if you really take a hard look at all of this "relationship advice" its mostly trying to put women back in the care take/wifey role of the pre-feminist era and inflate the male ego.
I look on Amazon to see what people have bought that purchased the Steve Harvey book, the results are, "The Man Plan", "The 4 Day Diet"
"Why He's Dating Her (Instead of You)" its all bullshit designed to make women think if they were more focused (had a plan), were thinner (go on that diet), or could bring that other bitch down (the one who's dating YOUR man) then they would really be happy.
it's a good thing he cut that piece of cake off the top of his head. he'd never have this oppurtunity w/a slice of black forest atop his meaty dome.
on: his advice/ insights. it's stuff women know but ignore for whatever reason i care not to understand.
Well considering he is one of the most unfunny comedians ever, maybe relationship advice will be a good career move.
I wont study from the notes of someone that failed the test.....
The brother is just trying to make a dollar. I put this kind of "advice" in the same category as celebrities (with 24/7 trainers/chefs) offering weight loss guidance and rich people with nannies/maids/assistants telling you how to be a Fortune 100 CEO while raising 3 kids. Whatever...
I wonder if he gives advice to interracial couples or just gets too caught up in "calling them out" for daring to miscegenate, like he once so proudly stated he did on his radio show. He and guest Jill Scott had a good time agreeing about that one. This tragic mulatto was done with the both of them after that little display.
(In Steve and Jill's defense, they were specifically talking about black women with white men, so maybe other gender/race mixtures are okay! I guess I'll have to wait for the book!)
Man it's a shame, all that miscegenatedness up in the White House.
Steve and Jill can chill with Keith Bardwell.
Maya Angelou was on hold ready to be interviewed on his show, heard him talking, and hung up. Said it was like listening to a minstrel show.
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At a minimum he is simply not funny. Nor do I find his "advice" to be particularly insightful.
"Today on the line we have Lisa. Lisa is sleeping with her step-father and wants to know if it's wrong. YES."
He makes Dr. Phil look like a pro.
In fairness an awful lot of the advice columnist letters can be responded to with "He's just not that into you; time to leave." And yet people keep writing.
Yeah - Steve Harvey thinks if you don't believe in God, you can have no moral code and therefore don't deserve love. Then again, I'd be dubious even if Steve Harvey didn't think I was an immoral idiot; the whole industry of relationship advice seems so snake oil-y to me. No relationship is the same, none are based on a template, and what works here, might not work there. There's something so fundamentally dishonest about dispensing homogenized advice for something as individual as a relationship. Makes me think of Liz Lemon: DEALBREAKER!
Every time I see a bus ad for Steve Harvey, I think "Didn't he die years ago?"
Then I remember that was Bernie Mac.
Oh well.
I know this is a dead issue a day or so after the fact, but I just want to be on record stating these attacks on Brother Steve are just the typical Du Boisian elitism of too many brothers and sisters with Ivy League diplomas. You know full well there was nothing personal in his attacks about sisters with white men. It was called humor. Seriously, when did WE as Black people get so darn offended? We're usually the people with the comedians cutting it close to the razor's edge, now we're evidently producing a generation of Black people "offended" by anything that smacks of "sexism" (what the blank does that mean anyway?), or "racism" (I've got thoughts, but I'll leave it be) or homophobia (I cede the point here, but I hardly think it all that big of a deal given the times many of Steve's generation came from).
Seriously, y'all, let's take a collective deep breath and remember: Steve is a comedian, not an expert. He is insightful, sure, but still just a funny man trying to make a joke. He isn't worth a graduate thesis.
Just my two cents.