Comments on: An Advice Columnist Whose Name Doesn't Rhyme With Blan Travage

By: lida

lida — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:41:42 +0000

Prudie is my new hero!

By: Supaflyshi

Supaflyshi — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:58:19 +0000

I love you Prudie!!! great advice. This made my day.

By: HeatherRadish

HeatherRadish — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:04:20 +0000

Right on, Bree.

I don’t “prefer” to be fat, but I’m a lot happier now than I was 10 years and 100 lbs ago. There doesn’t seem to be a correlation; size only makes you miserable if you let it.

It’s also a good filter…I don’t like shallow people and they don’t bother to talk to a fat girl, so the people I *do* meet end up being a much better fit personality-wise. Go figure.

By: Bree

Bree — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:09:42 +0000

Most of us don’t.

But we would like others to not be so disgusted that we are, including yourself. If more people would not be so obsessed about everyone else’s weight, the world would be a a less stressful place.

Remember that many fat people don’t get this way because they can’t put down the cookies and stay away from McDonald’s drive-thrus. Medicine and genetics play into it too.

Good for you that you’re thin, but stop making those that aren’t ashamed of their size.

By: Jetsetter

Jetsetter — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:06:06 +0000

I’ve read and heard about these pro-fat blogs and I’m honestly surprised. I have always felt that I am at my happiest when I am at my thinnest. How did you all come to the conclusion that you prefer to be fat?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:46:35 +0000

Haa! That’s excellent.

I know if my boyfriend told me he required me to lose weight before he’d propose to me, my response would be “I guess we’re just not getting married, then.”

By: spinsterwitch

spinsterwitch — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:03:56 +0000

As I was reading this lovely letter, I kept thinking the girl needs to read “He’s Just Not That Into You.” Seriously funny book, but so right on. If he were really interested in marrying her, he wouldn’t be looking for a “hotter” model of her to show up.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:09:01 +0000

Eh. This is like her first good answer ever — mostly Prudence is an idiot. She does stuff like say it’s okay to put a request for cash in your wedding invitations (she even wrote a stupid little poem), and refer to women who want to keep their own names at marriage and maybe even pass them on to their kids as crazy militant feminists.

I think she’s Ann Lander’s daughter or something? Whoever she is, she’s about the worst advice columnist in the history of advice, and I kind of think this answer is cribbed from one of her mother’s — it sounds a little familiar.

By: Bellesouth

Bellesouth — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:59:23 +0000

I would also have recommended a swift punch to the nards. Since boxing is a great form of exercise and all.

By: Fat Girl

Fat Girl — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:31:56 +0000

Also, just wanting to add that I’m not generally fond of Prudie’s column in general, but was happy with this letter.

And in defense of Dan Savage… Well, just read this first letter and his response from a column last summer:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=255893

I think that pretty much sums up why I stay behind him even when he says things that come off as insensitive.