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Comments

Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

Any you like? Hate? What do you think about them generally? Any articles/advice you'd like to rant about?

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

I like reading them, but I often find myself going "we're getting half a story." It's often pretty obvious.

Also, sometimes the comments make me facepalm, because they'll project their personal feelings onto the person asking for advice. Like someone whose parents dropped in on them unannounced and stayed the night their first night away from home; I was on the girl's side, but people in the comments were saying she was an ungrateful brat. WTF?

Re: Advice Columns

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly, they will be definition just be one side of the story, because the person writing in will be biased.

Re: Advice Columns

[lb_lee]

Yeah, and not gonna lie, sometimes, there's at least one side of the story that I SOOOOO do not want to know. D:

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

I love reading them. I like Ask A Manager for work-related stuff, Dear Prudence, Dear Abby, and Ask Amy for general stuff. I don't comment or send in my own letters asking for advice, I just enjoy reading the problems and responses (and comments, sometimes). Very entertaining for me.

Re: Advice Columns

[shortysc22]

I love reading Dear Abby and Ask Amy and I end up discussing them with my mom every day and debating on how we would answer the letters.

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

Any time the subject of advice columns comes up I'm suddenly mildly annoyed all over again about a Dear Abby answer I read probably at least fifteen years ago. The letter-writer's parents had planned for years that they were going to throw a huge, big-deal party for some milestone birthday of the dad's, but he died suddenly a short time (like, a few months to a year or so; I don't remember exactly) before said birthday. Mom was still planning to have the party as a memorial/celebration of his life, and the letter-writer was acting like this was the most messed-up thing ever. There was no implication in the letter that Mom was having other grief-related problems or that the party would be a financial hardship, but to the writer it was proof that she had lost her mind. And Abby's response was "Yeah, this is a huge problem and your mom needs professional help because she's not coping with your dad's death." It's the closest I've ever come to writing a letter myself because where are you even getting this answer.

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, yeah, I would totally have disagreed with that advice, too. Let them honor their loved one however they damn well please.

That's odd coming from Abby, 'cause I generally feel she has pretty solid advice overall. Off day, I guess?

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes Dear Abbey gets it really, really wrong. I still read the column, but the advice is definitely on the old-fashioned side at best.

Re: Advice Columns

[philstar22]

I like Dear Abby. And I like the new Dear Prudence a lot more than the old one.

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

I regularly read Dear Prudie, and discuss the letters and the answers with my Mum. It's always really interesting when we disagree with the advice given; or even more so if we disagree with one another, because we're normally so in-sync.

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

That Bad Advuce is the best

http://thatbadadvice.tumblr.com

Re: Advice Columns

[diet_poison]

I love reading them and discussing them with other people who have read them (usually my parents). Sometimes we agree with the columnist/each other, sometimes not, but it's often really interesting.

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

Dan Savage is awesome!

Re: Advice Columns

[(Anonymous)]

I don't remember which advice column it was (it was in some magazine I read a long time ago) but a woman wrote in who was grossed out by her boyfriend going to strip clubs. The advice columnist said she should go to the strip club with her boyfriend which I thought was shitty advice which would pretty much make her, her boyfriend and some stripper uncomfortable as fuck.