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Search: Miss Manners. Perfect, intelligent advice with a subtle but sly sense of humor. She points out that behaving well is against human instinct. I think it's particularly useful when she explains a difficult situation and tells you exactly a gentle phrase that may be used to defuse it. I'd be a lot more confused and awkward than I am if I didn't read Miss Manners (somewhat religiously). I'm serious.

Also search: "Since You Asked..." by Cary Tennis at Salon. He only handles relationship advice. I like his style; his sympathy always seems genuine. And he takes time to analyze how a situation may have started and realistic outcomes for it.

Destory: Dear Prudence at Slate. Miss Manners wannabe. Some of her advice I simply don't agree with, and roughly 50% of her responses can be succinctly summarized with the following: "Dump him."

― Ernest P., Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i hear tell that ilx's own douglas wolk runs one, but he's let it lapse lately.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

half the time it seems like ilx is one.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it IS angela hahaha every day people ask for advice and all the ilxors rush to aid the confused.
great stuff.!

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, angela, only half?

Miss Manners is wonderful. She uses questions of comportment as a starting point for discussions of morality and social relations. She's particularly good at coming down hard on etiquette bullies who mistake mannered conduct for a means of making other people feel inferior or beholden.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Miss Manners so so much. I also love Savage Love on the Onion. And I like the lady who writes parenting advice in the local paper, it's really not stupid advice.

that said destroy dear abby. bleh.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Advice columns in teen mags are comedy gold. A few years ago a friend had a 'best of' book for Sugar's advice column. Some kids are tres dumb

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like Mink Stole's "Think Mink" advice column, but of course I would!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the Mink Stole recommendation - good stuff. She reminds me of Dan Savage when she berates someone. It's weird that this is the crazy screaming woman from Desperate Living. I found an archive here:

http://www.citypaper.com/archives/minkstole.html

― Ernest P., Wednesday, 23 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

'dear prudence' is written by ann landers' daughter.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

for relationship and sex advice, they're a bit risque', but Em and Lo are very good. The old archives: http://personals.nerve.com/Content.aspx?feed=emlo
and their new website: http://www.emandlo.com/

― Rachel, Friday, 19 December 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

miss manners rules

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 19 December 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Miss Manners is fucking annoying.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 19 December 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(as you can see, I'm hardly Mister Manners)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 19 December 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Carolyn Hax.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 19 December 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

There are no words for this question: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2013/03/dear_prudence_i_d_like_to_give_my_deceased_wife_s_vibrator_to_my_new_girlfriend.html

― rallying against young people who wear hats (Nicole), Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:28 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

there are no words for this question: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/09/dear_prudence_my_husband_wants_me_to_dress_up_during_sex_as_someone_we_know.html

― goole, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 21:22 (ten years ago)

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