Soft rejections, mixing finances, and a primer for dealing with loaded questions.
Category: ethics
#1333: Multi-Level Marketing Cults & Performative Friendship
How to plot the accumulated costs of "useless objects" vs. "pointless arguments" over time?
#1325-26: Confidential To The Married Couple Who Both Wrote To Me About Your Disintegrating Marriage
Two spouses wrote to me and I don't want to post the letters full of painful details but I also could not leave it alone.
Vaccines: Envy & Etiquette
What to do when everyone you know is getting vaccinated, except for you? What about when you're the relatively fortunate person? Also, what about relatives who refuse to be immunized? Here are some thoughts about that.
#1322: “My friend’s (white female) roommate is a creepy creep.”
"Don't touch me" isn't complicated. You know who makes it complicated? CREEPS, THAT'S WHO.
#1319: “How do I tell my booty call that his booty ruined my couch?”
Come for the poop jokes, or immediately hit the back button because of the poop jokes. Stay for the bad decisions and how to find the least worst path.
#1316: “I finally have a friend and my wife is jealous.”
Feelings (jealousy, discomfort, biphobia) clean-up in Aisle 7.
It Came From The Search Terms: January 2021
It is that time when I pretend that the search strings people typed in are actual questions. Details? What details. Mitigating circumstances? Ha! It's all assumptions, all the time!
#1309: My housemate is accidentally flashing me
Probably just tell people when they have spinach in their teeth and when they have unintentional crotch displays.
#1308: How do I deal with my edgelord friend?
Just spitballing here, but what if my fellow white people took bigotry in our social spaces incredibly fucking seriously for a change?
