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Ms. Prudence?

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What are the Ms. Prudence advice posts about?

Are they actual letters that people write to someone?
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    6fsn6fsn member
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    It's letters to an advice column.  We just like to read them on Thursdays for interesting topics.
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    mrsconn23mrsconn23 member
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    Prudie posts on slate.com on Thursdays. 
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    OliveOilsMomOliveOilsMom member
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    On the topic of Prudie.  I'm not sure how I feel about the new Prudie.  I think some of her advice misses the mark.  I think most of the time she is on the right track but often doesn't address all of the issues in a letter. 
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    charlotte989875charlotte989875 member
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    I miss the old Prudie.
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    GBCKGBCK member
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    old prudie or old old prudie?
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    knottie2b256f5c2ae42586knottie2b256f5c2ae42586 member
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    Thanks for the explanation!
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    HeffalumpHeffalump member
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    OliveOilsMom said:
    On the topic of Prudie.  I'm not sure how I feel about the new Prudie.  I think some of her advice misses the mark.  I think most of the time she is on the right track but often doesn't address all of the issues in a letter. 
    I like her better than Emily Yoffe.  I don't think she's perfect, but given a choice, I'll take Mallory.  Plus, I like her writing better. 

    "It is unlikely that many people are having children just to score a few anonymous, afterthought gifts from mall-based charities once a year, and at any rate, they are not your problem to worry about."

    "Absolutely refuse future gifts from her! Refuse them like you are a gift-refusing machine whose only function is to refuse unnecessary, emotionally manipulative gifts."

    "If you really want to reconnect with a friend, you say, “I feel like we’re drifting apart and I’d like to see you more.” You don’t go to her bridal shower, tell her you’re not coming to her wedding because you don’t see her enough, then turn down her subsequent attempts to see you before the ceremony and ask to get coffee six months later."

    "My final (and totally objective, legally binding) opinion on the tastefulness of posting a link to your daughter’s college fund on Facebook is that it isn’t grubbing, exactly, but it may be grubbing-adjacent. "




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    charlotte989875charlotte989875 member
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    Yah I liked the old old Prudie. Although Emily Yoffe was good I took a big issue with a non-Prudie post she wrote in Slate about sexual assault and drinking in which her advice amounted to "young women, don't drink and you won't get raped". Not cool.
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    GBCKGBCK member
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    oldold prudie did do a 'dear margo' for a little while--but it didn't work as well as the prudie format for some reason, imo
    And I think ti vanished
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