Why This is Advice *Bitch*

The thing that makes most advice situations so frustrating (when your good advice is ignored) is that people will ignore it for stupid reasons, or no reason at all.

I spend a lot of my driving time or working-with-headphones-on time listening to old episodes of Loveline.  It's a radio show (and sometime tv program) most famously hosted by Adam Carrolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky.  Adam fills the role of personality/everyman for advice and humor, and Dr. Drew is there as his more serious foil to give input on medical situations.  Occasionally one of the hosts isn't there due to some other commitment, and they frequently have guest stars on to promote something, but the heart of the program is just the two of them, talking to teenagers about their relationship troubles and cracking jokes.

And it has to be the most unfulfilling job in the world.  People will call in and be actively annoyed that the people THEY CALLED for help are asking questions so as to better help them.

One call in particular stands out to me as annoying.  A young woman, about 18, was having trouble climaxing when masturbating.  This is normal for most women, as Dr. Drew was quick to reassure her, and usually changes with age - by the time she's in her mid-20s she probably won't have that problem any more, but for younger women, it's harder to 'get there,' especially when it's a solo adventure, because the female orgasm is generally very closely related to emotional state and emotional connection - tldr if a girl loves a guy, it's easier to get off from what he does to her.  Without the emotion, it's harder or even effectively impossible.

She accepted this information, but wanted to know what to do.  There really wasn't anything to be done, since it was just an issue of physiology, which would resolve itself with time.  But that wasn't good enough.  So this, approximately, was their conversation:

Well, you can keep trying to masturbate, on the off chance it works. 
But that's frustrating! 
Yeah, understandably.  You can choose not to, then, since it doesn't work.
But I want to masturbate!
How about getting a boyfriend and you can sort of work on it together?
*huffy noise*

This is why Adam frequently berates the callers.

And this is the problem faced by all would-be advisors.  People are never happy with a solution if it requires any sort of work, sacrifice, or patience.  So I think sometimes they NEED berated, just to snap through their knee-jerk get-in-my-own way reactions and take your frigging helpful advice already.

This is why, in my head at least, all advice I give anymore begins with "Step 1: Shut up."