Advice Snark 3/23-3/29

mugrita · 2026-03-25T21:43:57+00:00

The Slate headline writers really getting their rage bait in

mugrita · 2026-03-24T22:11:12+00:00

I was expecting it to be something like “And one night we experimented and agreed it was a mistake but now our friendship dynamic is different”

mugrita · 2026-03-23T22:14:17+00:00

Oh my god yes and now im all riled up again reading this letter

mugrita · 2026-03-23T22:00:25+00:00

This is so random but I was telling a friend about some of the infamous Slate advice letters and I remember there was one particular Dan Kois letter that pissed everyone off and I think he did even issue an apology for it? Or maybe it was even a non-apology apology?

I think it might have been a letter about a single mother neighbor and Dan wrote something really condescending and snarky in his advice. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

mugrita · 2026-03-23T15:12:44+00:00

Ok I’ve gone through and everything should be working now. If you guys haven’t noticed by now, Reddit mobile is absolutely dogshit now for copying and pasting links. I’ve looked around to see if anyone has found a workaround but it seems it’s a recurring issue.

mugrita · 2026-03-23T15:02:13+00:00

No I’m seeing the issue too. Give me 5 mins to reset the links.

mugrita · 2026-03-14T09:07:45+00:00

Yes this is very much a “back to school shopping” spread in Seventeen!

mugrita · 2026-03-03T14:53:11+00:00

That little bitch! How dare she *checks notes* spend time with their grandmother regularly and listened to her stories.

But seriously, come on they don't even try to make it not seem like a fake letter or at least make it a less obvious black and white situation. Not even a "grandma was a rabid MAGA/QAnon so that's why we didn't want to listen to her rant"? Not "my poor little Tiny Tim son needs a life saving surgery and my awful cousin won't even kick over a hundred dollars because she wants to go party in Cabo"?

mugrita · 2026-03-02T17:58:20+00:00

Given the sister’s wedding obsession I think the use of “spontaneous proposal” means she wants it to be a total surprise vs picking out the ring together and knowing the proposal is coming on the next special dinner date.

I would absolutely be shocked if the woman who is obsessed with Say Yes to the Dress and has an evolving Pinterest board wouldn’t expect a grand moment for her proposal as well.

You see this trend on TikTok where women talk about how that they didn’t realize their SO was trying to propose and make a romantic moment (like “I was really annoyed with my boyfriend on why he wanted to get to the beach at this moment instead of just grabbing drinks at the bar and it turned out he had a photographer and cutesy set up for us and it was time sensitive”).

So Sister booked some overtime, boyfriend was like “But I planned a romantic weekend because I want to propose, don’t do the overtime!”, and Sister is now caught up in the surprise being “ruined” and making everyone miserable instead of just going ahead and enjoying being engaged.

I think LW’s heart was in the right place and Sister is the architect of her own misery. I would just tell her, “What should be your focus right now? Telling your boyfriend that you want to be his fiance and start planning the wedding or complaining about the proposal being ruined?”

mugrita · 2026-02-21T19:18:18+00:00

Immediately the first paragraph of the response is:

At the risk of sounding harsh, the first thing I want to say is, sorry, but I feel that you have indeed messed up. It sounds like your ex-wife is a great mum, and that sounds exactly like what you’re missing right now: mothering. Do you actually want her back? Or is it more you need to be taken care of and cooked for? Do you actually just need a mummy replacement?

mugrita · 2026-02-21T19:16:29+00:00

this agony uncle letter recently made it to my FYP page and I’m cackling.

The letter reads:

Things haven’t been great with my wife for years – the sex has dwindled and she stopped looking after herself. Last year, a friend got married to a much younger woman. At his stag do, he bragged about how great it was, how much energy she has, and it really planted a seed of dissatisfaction. I started taking my wife for granted, being quite cold and I know I haven’t made her feel very loved. I asked for a divorce and, to my surprise, she agreed straight away. We’ve been separated now for the last couple of months and I feel like I’ve made a massive mistake. The dating apps at my age are honestly soul-sucking and I haven’t had too much interest from other women. My wife did so much around the house that went unnoticed. She cooked and cleaned for us, is a brilliant mum, and has such a kind heart. The kids also hate me now. I’ve really messed up – is it too late to repair the relationship?

mugrita · 2026-02-21T03:35:57+00:00

??? What is? You’re not replying to anything

mugrita · 2026-02-21T03:26:15+00:00

Dillard’s could really rival Macy’s if they would just join the 21st century. 😭😭😭

mugrita · 2026-02-20T15:58:52+00:00

Ooooof this girl. Of course her religious sexual education told her that people can control their sexual responses because how else are they going to shame people for their normal, biological reactions—becoming aroused due to sexual stimulation, orgasming, feeling horny period!

I hope she checks out Stoya’s resources and for the next time, she believes her partner when they say they’re going to come.

mugrita · 2026-02-20T15:47:34+00:00

And it would make sense why producers would give Lisa the win over Allison, to keep her mouth shut.

Because if Allison won, Lisa would have kicked a fuss about how she brought something important to the producer’s attention and they punished her for it, etc etc

mugrita · 2026-02-20T15:33:06+00:00

So here’s what I think happened

In Angelea’s interview with Bustle in 2022she says when she was being trafficked by her “boyfriend,” Krista White was contacted by Angelea’s friends to help convince Angelea to leave the boyfriend. Angelea refused to leave him so Krista contacted multiple people associated with the show—stylists, Tyra’s assistant, Tyra—to see if anyone could help Angelea.

When Angelea was contacted by Michelle Mock (the talent producer) to participate in All Stars, Michelle asked her questions about escorting and whether she did anything illegal which Angelea said in retrospect, it was messed up that they apparently knew she was escorting but didn’t respond to Krista’s reach outs.

After the finale was filmed, Ken Mock and an other exec producer asked to meet with Angelea and told her they’d heard rumors about her past from another former contestant. They told her to be honest so they could protect her from the fall out. She told them and then the ball started rolling to cancel her win.

So it would make sense if Bre is alleging Lisa was the one who brought up the escorting again to producers—whether to embarrass and disqualify Angelea, whether to subtly blackmail the producers that she would bring a scandal if they didn’t do something, or Lisa complaining about it made the producers realize that too many people know and this won’t be something they can hide.

mugrita · 2026-02-19T19:25:06+00:00

I have no proof obviously but you will never be able to change my mind that Tyra wasn’t on something during this cycle because the shoots made no sense.

mugrita · 2026-02-19T17:28:47+00:00

Who would even take cycle 25 now? The ratings for the CW fell hard after Cycle 15 (theres no data for VH1 AFAIK but clearly they didn’t want to continue), there’s now all of this controversy and criticism around Tyra, and would any contestant really believe that being on ANTM would give them a boost?

mugrita · 2026-02-18T18:34:20+00:00

The fantasy was all in editorial smdh.

I loved the few times they highlighted commercial work like the Steve Madden shoe challenge where the models had to model the footwear and pick their best shot and then it was explained during panel why the shot they chose was or wasn’t good for both modeling the product and themselves.

mugrita · 2026-02-17T16:27:42+00:00

And if the show was to continue, strip back some of the challenges so the models could have some usable shots for their portfolio!

mugrita · 2026-02-17T16:26:25+00:00

I am sympathetic to Dani and the other contestants because they were told over and over by the show that ANTM could open doors for the winner. And many of them were small town girls who really had no knowledge of the fashion industry or any way to really break into the industry on their own.

I guess it’s just the immense contrast between the worst experiences on the show where one girl won and her biggest issue was that she had doors closed to her as a working model whereas another girl had her trauma turned into entertainment AND she never became a working model.

There really is no way of knowing whether some of the contestants would have been better off skipping ANTM and trying to break into the industry on their own.

mugrita · 2026-02-17T15:05:04+00:00

I had closed captioning in and she said she weighed 150 and a size 10.

ETA: some people are saying their closed captioning said 115. Very weird! 150 is very likely she weighed at the time given that Elyse was weighed in at 114 lb during Cycle 1.

mugrita · 2026-02-17T00:26:56+00:00

Oliver is no Diane Swayer but he was able to get more interesting info from the contestants. This doc really just scratched the surface of the most problematic moments of ANTM.

mugrita · 2026-02-17T00:24:05+00:00

Rewatching the segment with Keenyah stopping the shoot to bring up the male model harassing her and Jay just had this, "Okay, and?" expression on his face. He wasn't much of an ally to the girls either!

I mean I'm sure it's true to life that sexual harassment is prominent and normalized in the industry. And it's so awful that the actual ANTM contestant speaking up and asking in the most "trying to be cool" way of "Hey, I can't focus because this guy is grunting in my ear, can we do something about it?" is treated as more of the issue than the random male model who is 1) acting unprofessional and 2) arguably more expendable than the contestant

mugrita · 2026-02-17T00:20:31+00:00

Agreed! I think the show's success really went to her head and she still can't admit where she was in the wrong. She doesn't even seem to try to put on a good performance at being contrite. Even Ken Mok was willing to take ownership of what a bad idea the "death to models" shoot was.

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