While our Crap Email series typically deals with shady mailings from dudes, today's letter comes to us from a woman whose husband's ex-girlfriend doesn't seem to understand why, in the words of Lady Gaga, she doesn't wanna be friends.
Ah, the Craigslist screed. The philosophizing of sages who don't care that their inadvertent audience really only wants a free couch, or an adult encounter, or a cleaning gig. The sociologist in question today has ideas about "women."
What sort of person would out an anonymous sex-work tweeter to her family? Well, the same sort of person who was trying to get famous with a blog called Reasons Why I Hate Girls. Meet Adam White.
In the dating world, there are those who send crap emails, and those who receive them. These are their stories. (Dun-dun!)
Today's CEFAD provides insight to the persistent question, 'Why don't we adopt the formal diction of law and business and introduce it into our personal lives?' Wouldn't the crispness of legalese be simpler, even kinder, in its way? Um, no.
In many ways, there's nothing stupider than agreeing to meet your ex-fiancé for a nice, chummy holiday coffee date just two months after the betrothal was broken. Which is probably why Katie, having initially agreed to Jeff's overtures, backed out.
You really have to stop pestering the other editors on their day off. It's not nice. Why are you so angry? We can all get along swimmingly. Peas and carrots, I tell you. Let's learn from each other. Or just yell.
While in the early stages of a recently deceased relationship, you should really eliminate all forms of communication for a significant period of time until things cool down — especially instant messaging. It makes everyone turn into typo-riddled, grammatically-challenged spazcakes.
It's always a bad idea to try to model yourself after someone you have a crush on. It's an especially bad idea to determine that your crush is "a headcase" and that you must woo them via psychological fuckery.
Some things are always ill-advised. Singing Björk at karaoke. Invading Russia with winter approaching. Sometimes it's like you can hear a voice yelling "Don't!" Dating a married man isn't necessarily and absolutely and always on this list — people and their weird situations, you know — but as this Crap Email…
Oh, dear. A columnist for the Reflector, the online newspaper of Mississippi State University, doesn't believe that the Pepsi "AMP Up Before You Score" application is sexist, as "there's virtually no guy out there who genuinely believes women are objects."
