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Thank you for a well-reasoned response to the 'advice column' a reader sent your way. It was refreshing to read a balanced, mature column with the philosophical foundation that respect and understanding matters in a relationship.
I have been one of the folks who previously commented on some of your writing as occasionally shrill or humorless. It's not that people who spew sexist claptrap shouldn't be taken to task, it's all in how we choose to do it. I think you really hit a happy medium between righteous outrage and under-the-radar snark that served to make your point and put the faux advice columnist in 'her' place. (You know those columns are written by guys pretending.....)