How Do I Teach My Kids Their Grandmother Is Racist?
Dear Jane,
My Relationship Is Perfect--Except for the Sex
I’ve been with my boyfriend for seven years and we have total trust, strong mutual respect and admiration, and great communication. We are super active and do fun stuff every weekend, we love each others families, we both make good money, he is hilarious, affectionate, I can take him anywhere and he will make friends…
My Husband Is Cheating on Me and I'm 7 Months Pregnant
Hi. This is a heavy question, but it’s one in which I’m sorely in need of advice. I’m 33 and my husband, whom I’ve been with for several years but have only been married to for 1.5 years, has been having an affair. I discovered this a few weeks ago after stumbling upon selfies of a woman in his email. The other woman…
I Need to See a Shrink, But I'm Burned Out on Them
Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.
Dear Jane: How Do I Get My Grandpa to Realize He’s Acting Like a Creep?
Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.
Forever 23: The Rapid Rise and Sudden Disappearance of Velva Darling, Modern Girl Philosopher
In 1924, she became the first woman at Stanford with a column on the student newspaper. At 19, she had a movie option, a contract for a vaudeville act, and a recording contract with Columbia. At 23, she was America’s youngest feature writer and youngest syndicated columnist, billed as the “modern girl philosopher,”…
Ask a Former Drunk: How Do I Keep My Sobriety From Being the Thing That Defines Me?
“Ask a Former Drunk” is a five-part advice series running on Tuesdays. Read last week’s installment here.
Could This Dear Prudence Question Possibly Get Any Whiter? Let's See
At first glance, the answer would appear to be no.
Cancel Your Therapy Appointment: It's the Best Love Advice Column Ever
Ask Polly, formerly of The Awl, has found a new home at New York Magazine's The Cut, and earlier this week posted the best, most cathartic, kind, lovely, and incredible advice column I've ever read.
Rocker and party expert Andrew W. K. has been writing an advice column for the Village Voice for several months now, and it's an absolute goddamn treasure. If you're not convinced based on that one hyperbolic-sounding sentence, a quick read of this recent column to a teenage girl whose boyfriend is mean to her should…
Adorable Mom Seeks Advice After Kids Mock Her Indie Movie Debut
Print media is still full of delightful surprises, including a letter this weekend to syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson from an amateur actor who can't bear the ridicule of her children when they watch the movie she and her husband filmed with friends. It's sad, bizarre, and painfully ingenuous all at once.
When Reporting Sexual Abuse Makes Your Life Worse
As anyone who's attended a freshman orientation rape prevention seminar can tell you, sexual victimization is much more common than most people are comfortable admitting, and most sexual abuse goes unreported. And while profiles of sexual abuse victims are more diverse than fast food restaurants' Kidz Klub mascots,…
Advice Columnist Claims Men Are Too Dumb to Know When Wives Are Cheating
Today in what-the-fuck, an advice columnist explains that while men deserve to be told when their wives are cheating, cuckolded ladies should be kept in the dark. Because they're such bitches.
Two Different Advice Columnists Answer The Same Letter
Well, it was bound to happen: two online advice columns received — and published — the same letter today. Their different responses provide a window into the columnists' psyches.
Is This The Weirdest Advice-Column Letter Of 2011?
We are often amazed at the things people write into advice columnists. But this letter may take the cake.
We Will Never Again Begrudge Paying Our Share Of A Birthday Dinner
Not after reading this letter to XX's "Friend or Foe" column, which takes birthday-party friend demands to new (literal) heights.
Advice Columnist Says That An Abusive Marriage Could Still Work
"I don't fear him. He has hit me twice," writes an advice-seeker of her husband. And instead of telling her to leave, columnist Cary Tennis says they can work it out. Can this ever be good advice?
