QI’m a 24-year-old straight, married female. I have been religiously reading your column in the Portland Mercury since I was 16. Thank you for explaining things that my parents wouldn’t and for helping me clear the hurdles of adolescence!
Someone who started reading my column at age 16—and that’s just the right age to start reading my column—should’ve known better than to marry a man she’d been dating for seven short months. And someone who has been reading my column for eight years should know what to do about a useless, unemployed, inconsiderate spouse: call a divorce lawyer.
AI used to take a hard line on sleeping with conservatives—friends don’t let friends fuck Republicans and all that—but I’ve evolved. Today I support sleeping with conservatives . . . because someone has to fuck some sense into ’em. Might as well be you guys, BBB.
APeople who enjoy hooking up with strangers—people who have casual one-night stands with people they don’t know and may not see again—should go into those hookups knowing these two things:
