By s.e. smith on 7 November, 2010
Content note: This Dear Imprudence discusses the use of hitting to ‘discipline’ children. Dear Prudie’s Monday livechat featured a doozy of a question: Q. Discipline: My wife and I have been married for eight years, and we have three wonderful children, two girls and a boy. While we agree on most everything, the one thing [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged autism, cerebral palsy, children, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, parenting
By s.e. smith on 21 September, 2010
Emily Yoffe has really been striking out in the advice sweepstakes lately, but she redeemed herself in this week’s livechat, when a reader wrote in to say: Q. Dealing With the R-Word: How can I respond to people who use the word “retard” or “retarded” as derogatory term in my presence? I have two beautiful [...]
Posted in 101, Dear Imprudence, language | Tagged Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, r-word
By Ouyang Dan on 18 September, 2010
Here’s some nostalgia for ya, gentle readers! My dad, who was completely AB for the record, lived alone in the home I now own, and for a good portion of my life had many of his needs taken care of by members of his immediate family. My Grammy did most of his laundry, unless my [...]
Posted in bad advice, Dear Imprudence, disability activism, intersectionality, relationships, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, caregivers, Dear Imprudence, Dear Prudence, disability, Emily Yoffe, intersectionality, it's not fair!, problematic attitudes, sex, social lives, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 27 August, 2010
This week’s livechat with Prudence featured a question that seems to crop up endlessly, like, pretty much whenever a person with a disabled parking placard pulls up to a parking space and gets out of ou car: Q. Parking Lot Etiquette: I live in an apartment that overlooks the building’s handicapped parking spots. I have [...]
Posted in 101, Dear Imprudence | Tagged Dear Prudence, disabled parking, Emily Yoffe, parking, policing
By s.e. smith on 1 August, 2010
A reader wrote in to Emily Yoffe at Dear Prudence this week with the following: My 7-year-old daughter is smart, pretty, and fun. Her father is of Hispanic descent, and he’s gorgeous, but he has a lot of thick, black body hair—including a “unibrow,” which he’s plucked since he was a teenager. Our daughter has [...]
Posted in bodies, Dear Imprudence, feminism | Tagged body image, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, self esteem
By s.e. smith on 14 July, 2010
On to the other letter in last week’s Dear Prudence with a response that made me, to be blunt, extremely angry. A letter writer submitted this: Dear Prudence, I am a proud gay man and for the last several years have worked in a high-ranking position for a company where my homosexuality has never been [...]
Posted in bad advice, Dear Imprudence, i'm right here, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, bigotry, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, in the workplace
By s.e. smith on 9 July, 2010
This week’s edition of Dear Prudence had several entries that got me extremely riled up, but the one I’m choosing to feature is one from a young intern who got, well, some pretty awful advice. The intern wrote: Dear Prudence, I landed a dream internship in the entertainment industry and on my first day on [...]
Posted in bad advice, Dear Imprudence, feminism | Tagged Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, sexism, sexual harassment
By s.e. smith on 14 May, 2010
I always love when I can do a ‘doing it right’ edition of Dear Imprudence, and this week we’ve got a doozy from the live chat with Prudence: Everywhere, USA: My older siblings financially support and care for my sick elderly parent. My parent is admittedly happy as they do not want to live out [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged caregiving, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, food police, institutionalisation
By s.e. smith on 22 April, 2010
Prudie’s livechat with readers last week featured a whole cornucopia of bad advice, including some substantial slut shaming and diagnosis of a reader via the Internet, but one thing jumped out at me: Santa Cruz, Calif.: My friend was diagnosed with a chronic illness about 15 years ago. She takes care of herself and has [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, Dear Imprudence | Tagged allergies, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, policing
By s.e. smith on 12 March, 2010
The Dear Prudence column for 4 March included the following letter from a reader: Dear Prudie, I’m almost ready to settle down and have kids, but I have a bit of a problem. I was born with an extra toe on each foot and part of an extra finger. Surgery when I was 1 year [...]
Posted in bad advice, bodies, Dear Imprudence, normality | Tagged Dear Prudence, genetic counseling, polydactyly, Robin Abrahams
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