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ballsballsbowls · 8 months

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Cannot believe that Slate has more advice columns than ever before and all of them suck now.

They cannot afford a single person who understands why people used to read their advice columns, apparently. If you're not good at giving advice AND you're not funny or genuinely fun to read, why are they paying you?

I feel almost obligated to assume that someone in charge of them doesn't understand why people read advice columns.

#to be abundantly clear I disliked Daniel too #I've NEVER liked his writing even before Slate and was always politely befuddled that people thought he was SO FUNNY #but he got the job at Slate and morphed immediately into someone achingly sincere at all times #They've gone to great lengths to get you to click on advice columns without showing you who wrote it now #But Daniel's advice was so unfunny AND boring and often incredibly clueless I don't been a byline to pick it out #To put out a Dear Prudence book and he's at the helm? Violence #Also i take back almost everything nice I've ever said about the sex advice column #they've badly fumbled like 8 out of the last 20 letters and I think they've been told to not give X kind of specific advice #Jenee is like 10x better than Daniel was and she's STILL not particularly funny or interesting #but at least she understands human motivations and calls people out on their BS

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