”Everyone is gross, hurrah for equality”
Feeling oddly uplifted by the breadth of humanity and all its weirdness that is encompassed by this roundtable of your fave internet advice columnists talking about their work, because at the end of the day, apparently “Everyone is gross, hurrah for equality,” which is a real winter tundra Monday mood if you think about it.
Some more fave snippets:
when something comes in that I’ve answered many times before (“He does no housework, the sex is bad, you pay for everything, he’s not nice to you, LITERALLY A HOUSEPLANT WOULD GIVE YOU MORE PLEASURE, BREAK UP WITH HIM”). And then I realize, oh, they know their story isn’t different from the others but they want so badly for it to end a different way.
The lengths people will go to minimize the mistreatment they are suffering and pack it all tightly into a side question about the daily commute or how much water to use when cleaning a teapot will never not surprise me, will never not break my heart.
I have the opposite of imposter syndrome. If you offered me an automotive column, I would cheerfully take it, and I didn’t learn to drive until I was 28.
^^(lol that last one is from the great Nicole Cliffe, because obviously!)