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Re: Obtuse response to vegetarian "lecture"
Reassure me that Prudence is ironic! To suggest that ''you can have the glass of wine'' if you're eating out with a friend who has ''recovered from a drinking problem'' is particularly cruel. Destructive habits [alcoholism] and religious convictions [being a Mormon] can't be lumped together in the way she did and to further your eating pleasure to ...
Posted to Slate V by eyerby on June 24, 2009
Yoffe lacks nuance
I've often found Yoffe's self-satisfied takes on the typically uninteresting Prudie questions to be mildly offensive. This one strikes me as particularly cruel, willfully ignorant, and damagingly dismissive.Yoffe, I agree that you should have noted that the questioner's rapid weight gain is unhealthy, physically, emotionally, and, unfortunately, ...
Posted to Slate V by monthofmae on September 2, 2008