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Posted on February 6, 2018 December 11, 2018

Bad Advice On Employing A Sexual Harasser To Teach Your Child

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Welcome to our latest Bad Advice column! Stay tuned every Tuesday for more terrible guidance based on actual letters. Read more

Posted on January 23, 2018 July 26, 2018

Bad Advice On Grammar-Policing Gender-Neutral Pronouns

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Bad Advice, Gender Pronouns, humor

Which do you prioritize? Living, breathing people — members of a systemically and institutionally marginalized minority — or a theoretical concept? Read more

Posted on January 16, 2018 August 3, 2018

Bad Advice On Family-Destroying Cat Worship

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Bad Advice, Bad Advisor, humor

Nothing has the potential to traumatize cats like being left alone, away from unfamiliar other cats, for a few hours in their own homes where they always live. Read more

Posted on January 9, 2018 October 12, 2018

Bad Advice On Berating Your Fat Friends’ Parenting Skills

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Bad Advice, Bad Advisor, body-positive, humor, wit-whimsy

Fat people are always an unsightly bother to those who have the upstanding moral judgment and good sense to be thin, but a fat person who is not sufficiently ashamed of their size is a problem of another order. Read more

Posted on December 19, 2017 July 20, 2018

Bad Advice On The Etiquette Of Boning Your Daughter’s Best Friend

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‘Thank you for your concern regarding adherence to established procedures before fucking your daughter’s best friend.’ Read more

Posted on October 24, 2017 August 9, 2018

Bad Advice On The Sexual Propriety Of Brown People Vs. White People

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Brown people are super sexual in an inappropriate way and white people are normal sexual in a regular way, as evidenced by the fact that one time you installed a toilet with your brother without fucking him.  Read more

Posted on October 5, 2017 October 2, 2018

Adult Fairy Tales For Millennials

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Gwen Lawson
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fairy-tale, humor, millenials, short-story, wit-whimsy

All the internet-based outlets wanted The Princess to write for exposure. Read more

Posted on October 3, 2017 February 11, 2019

Bad Advice On Obsessing Over The Sexual History Of Your Child’s Lover

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Bad Advice, Bad Advisor, dating, humor, love, satire

Welcome to our Bad Advice column! Stay tuned every Tuesday for more terrible guidance based on actual letters. Read more

Posted on September 26, 2017 September 19, 2018

Bad Advice On Staying With A Trump Supporter For The Great Sex

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Bad Advice, donald trump, humor, sex, wit-whimsy

Welcome to our latest Bad Advice column! Stay tuned every Tuesday for more terrible guidance based on actual letters. Read more

Posted on September 22, 2017 October 9, 2018

‘You Can Go As Far As You Like In My Great Big Oldsmobile!’

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Katie Tandy
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cartoon, Sexism, videos, vintage-video, wit-whimsy

In this 1932 commercial one lucky dame gets to be the Queen of a Gas Machine. (And the recipient of manifold gropings!) Read more

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