Memories of Dear Abby

When I was a kiddo, my favorite writers were the folks I could always read at my grandparents' house: political satirist Art Buchwald, proto-mommyblogger and humorist Erma Bombeck, and the great, sensible, kind Dear Abby. Her writing was as interesting when I was 6 as it was when I was 26, and her advice was always…

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That Dear Abby "My Brother Raped My Wife" Thing Actually Happened (And…

Here's a familiar familial tale! Remember the one about the woman who's fast asleep in her room when suddenly a man she thinks is her husband comes in and they have sex only to at some later point realize that it was actually her husband's perverted brother? Yes, Dear Abby got a query about this a few weeks back, and…

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Savage Hate

All week, readers have been writing in about advice-giver Dan Savage's latest column, in which Jezebel — specifically our response to that awful 'Dear Abby' feature from last week — gets a negative mention. Personally, I didn't care one way or another about Savage's slam, but Moe sure did! With every email from a…

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"Dear Abby" Strongly Doubts Your Wife's Rape Story

Dear Abby ('s daughter): I've never written you before, but I'm writing you now to ask for your resignation. It's with regards to some advice you recently gave a reader who found himself in an odd predicament. While he was staying at his parents' house, one of his brothers raped his wife. In the darkness, the wife…

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