AP Exlusive: ‘Dear Abby’ announces support of same-sex marriage – Examiner.com
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What Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, finds offensive – not to mention of dubious intelligence – are homophobic jokes, phrases like “That’s so gay,” and parents who reject
*** end quote ***What I found interesting is that it’s not your grandmother’s “dear abby”.
It’s sort of a modest fraud upon the reader. The column reveals later on that for five years the daughter has been writing it. And, with ghost writers, who knows who’s advice people have been getting. I do know that growing up, my grandmother and my aunt would discuss “Dear Abby’s” advice. They usually disagreed and were much more blunt about it. They had little tolerance for “scatter brained women” or “undisciplined men”. I think they’d have been like Judge Judy on steroids in this day and age.
In any event it’s a cultural icon that has been modernized.
Wonder what the original would have said. I know what my grandmother would have said: MYOB! And, my aunt would have chimed in with “why do i have to pay for it”.
So, I’ll MYOB and ask “why do i have to pay for gooferment to be involved in marriage”? Hopefully, I’m not “undisciplined” about these actions.
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