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Where do people get off asking such personal questions? And better yet, what’s a good reply to shut them down?
A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.
Dear Miss Manners: I was at the dentist last week and the hygienist, whom I had never met before, mentioned she had a new grandchild. I naturally congratulated her and asked the polite questions: sex, ...
It’s a nice problem to have, I suppose: choosing which of the three different first-class seats you’d like to sit in on a long-haul flight. That’s the dilemma that will face the lucky cohort of ...
The problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that ...
GENTLE READER: While Miss Manners agrees that this conversation jumped the rails, she does not understand why you were still holding on when it did.
Know the dangers and benefits so you can proceed with caution.
Dear Miss Manners: I was at the dentist last week and the hygienist, whom I had never met before, mentioned she had a new grandchild. I naturally congratulated her and asked the polite questions: sex, ...
That quick glance at your phone to dodge small talk isn't social awkwardness—it's your highly observant brain protecting itself from the exhausting task of processing every micro-expression, body ...
Inspired by his ruminations on love, longing and loss, the writer's latest novel, Stowaways, is a moving story of what might have been ...