I know her very slightly in real life, and though I find her amusing and honor her for her hard work on behalf of many charities, this surprises me not at all. She has NO FILTER and just says whatever she thinks. Not always the best approach for every situation.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Who better to write a traditional etiquette advice column than someone who thinks of herself as a Person of Quality with Superior Judgement, whose personal opinion on a matter of taste should be taken as Word of God, and who assumes that anyone who contradicts her truly superior opinions is just ignorant, greedy, or malicious?
Nepotism. Though she hasn't been "Dear Prudence" for a long time, and she wasn't the first "Dear Prudence," for that matter. She has written a good deal of service journalism for someone who doesn't have to work to pay the bills, so it's not like she didn't have a big old sheaf of clips.
She had a column called "Dear Margo" for a bit, but I don't know if it ran anywhere but the Boston Globe. It was better than "Dear Prudence" in that she dispensed with the veneer of gentility and just straight-out yelled at people for being jerks to their gay kids and so forth.
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Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Who better to write a traditional etiquette advice column than someone who thinks of herself as a Person of Quality with Superior Judgement, whose personal opinion on a matter of taste should be taken as Word of God, and who assumes that anyone who contradicts her truly superior opinions is just ignorant, greedy, or malicious?
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She had a column called "Dear Margo" for a bit, but I don't know if it ran anywhere but the Boston Globe. It was better than "Dear Prudence" in that she dispensed with the veneer of gentility and just straight-out yelled at people for being jerks to their gay kids and so forth.