Posted on 02/24/2008 3:17:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s ok for “transsexual” men to use the ladies’ room? A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites? America should embrace same-sex “marriage?”
Dear Abby, what have you come to?
For more than 50 years, Dear Abby has been counseling people on how to live their lives. People usually associate Abby with common sense, but in reality she’s an unsung warrior in the sexual revolution—firmly on the side of Playboy, NARAL, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Dear Abby consistently steers people into the arms of Planned Parenthood, homosexual activist groups, and the now-infamous Kinsey Institute. The column has supported abortion on demand, condom-based “safe sex” education, nudism, cross-dressing and pornography.
Abby’s daughter took over the column several years ago, and the message has grown even more radical. After years of promoting acceptance of homosexuality as normal and in-born, Abby on October 10, 2007, went all the way and openly endorsed gay “marriage.”
The Dear Abby column runs in 1,400 newspapers worldwide, reaching 110 million readers daily in print and on-line. Because Abby is a major cultural media figure, the Culture and Media Institute took a detailed look at what kind of advice she gave in 2007. CMI also looked at The Best of Dear Abby (1981), her Web site, and a Nexis search of columns over the years dealing with sex. The new study by CMI researcher Colleen Raezler, “Down a Dark Abby,” reveals that:
• Of Abby’s 365 daily columns in 2007, nearly a third (108) deal with sex. And of those, more than half (58) reject traditional morality and instead offer moral relativism and sexual liberation.
• Ten address homosexuality, which Abby regards as morally right.
• Fifty-four address sex between unmarried adults, and only once does Abby suggest that marriage should precede sex.
• Twelve address teen sex, and only three suggest abstinence.
• Twenty other columns project a permissive view of nudism, stripping and cross dressing.
The 2007 columns reflect themes that Abby has embraced for years. Here are some of Abby’s Blasts from the Past, starting with nudism:
DEAR ABBY: …What is this world coming to when a person of your stature condones nude hot-tubbing with the neighbors? Enjoying the “therapeutic benefits” of soaking together in the nude—unless it’s a husband and wife alone—is a new low in moral behavior.
DEAR HORRIFIED: It’s neither new nor necessarily low. I have never condemned nudity—as long as it’s on the up and up. And while I might hesitate to grin and bare it (all), scores of wholesome people from many cultures enjoy the naturalist way of life. (August 2001)
In August 2006, a woman wrote that she was shocked to see a six-foot-tall man in a wig and dress in the ladies room. Abby tells her to chill:
DEAR BEWILDERED: … Before a transsexual is allowed to have gender reassignment surgery, he or she must live for one year in the role of someone of the opposite sex. This includes using the restroom facilities of the opposite gender. It is not against the law, and it was no threat to you.
Abby vigorously supports homosexual adoption. In a 1999 column, she advises an 18-year-old who has “lived with a gay man since I was 6” to “tell your friends exactly what you told me—that he is your mother, father, aunt, uncle, counselor and – most of all— your best friend.”
Abby has been remarkably easy on porn. When a mother wrote her in November 2002 concerned about her daughter operating “soft porn” Web sites, Abby told her:
DEAR LOVING MOTHER: You and your daughter have very different moral values. While it’s against your principles, what she’s doing is legal. She has built a successful business and wants you to respect what she has accomplished. …try to accept that this is a choice she has made, and focus on her positive qualities. She’s bright, sweet and loving, not to mention a whiz at business.
Abby is unabashedly “pro-choice.” In March 2000, her column “Life Makes Grandma Pro-Choice” related the horrors of illegal abortions and happy outcomes from “terminated” pregnancies. Here’s the takeaway message from Grandma:
DEAR ABBY: ….The key word is “choice.” Only the girl or woman should make the decision to have an abortion or carry the pregnancy to term and keep the child or place the baby for adoption. The decision should NOT be up to self-righteous, ambitious politicians.
DEAR GRANDMA: Right on. Only the individual knows how much she can handle, and the decision should be hers to make. The key word, indeed, is “choice.”
The bottom line? When it comes to sex, Dear Abby is no friend of the family.
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Robert Knight is director of the Culture & Media Institute at the Media Research Center.
In think the original Dear Abby died years ago (as did her sister Ann Landers). I know one of them was replaced by a daughter. So thank goodness newspaper readership is shrinking!
For obvious reasons.
Just trying to be all things to all people. Boring.
BS !!!!!! If I had ever found out one of these perverts was in the woman's room while either me wife or one of my daughters was in there, he would be one dead SOB !!!
Errrr.... “me wife” = “my wife”
Sheesh..........
I always figured that these were fake questions. A social and political agenda loosely masquerading as an advice column for the terminally stupid...
Dear Abby, Dear Abby ...
My feet are too long
My hair’s falling out and my rights are all wrong
My friends they all tell me that I’ve no friends at all
Won’t you write me a letter, Won’t you give me a call
Signed Bewildered
Bewildered, Bewildered...
Chorus:
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain’t what you ain’t
So listen up Buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed
If it weren’t so expensive I’d wish I were dead
Signed Unhappy
Unhappy, Unhappy...
Repeat Chorus
Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
You won’t believe this
But my stomach makes noises whenever I kiss
My girlfriend tells me It’s all in my head
But my stomach tells me to write you instead
Signed Noise-maker
Noise-maker, Noise-maker
Repeat Chorus
Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married
Just Married, Just Married...
Repeat Chorus
Dear Abby, or her cyborg alterego, have always been miswired. Besides, anyone insane enought to write an advice columnist for advice on decisions in life deserves whatever lunacy they get. I think the column is, was, and always will be a morbid attention getter for the same kind of reasons people slow down and rubber neck at the scene of highway accidents.
DEAR BEWILDERED: … Before a transsexual is allowed to have gender reassignment surgery, he or she must live for one year in the role of someone of the opposite sex. This includes using the restroom facilities of the opposite gender. It is not against the law, and it was no threat to you.
Both “Ann Landers” and her sister “Dear Abby” were liberal DemocRATS. Looks like the next generation is just an order of magnitude more kooky.
True, but they were old school Democrats. They would have never, in a thousand years, given advice like this!!!
This is what they're referring to when they use the word "progressive."
AS IF!!!
I don’t know about Ann Landers but the original Abby was always a pro-homo, liberal twit.
Pwah! What people? I can't stand to read that tripe!
He lived with a gay man since he was 6 inches? What the hell did the gay man do to him?
Those not typed up my 'Abby' are dutifully provided by left-wing fringe groups.
And college fraternities.
As I said an order of magnitude kookier.
Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips (born July 4, 1918) started writing the Dear Abby syndicated personal advice column in 1956 under the pen name, Abigail Van Buren. Since her retirement in 2002 after an onset of Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, has been writing the column under the same pen name.
The daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants, the twins grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, and went by the nicknames “Popo” and “Eppie”, respectively. They attended Central High School(aka “The Castle on the Hill”) in Sioux City, Iowa, and then went on to study at Morningside College. They were very close and had a joint wedding ceremony in 1939 at the age of 21.
As competing columnists, however, the two sisters did not have a happy relationship. They publicly reconciled during 1964, although some suggest that the acrimony endured. Just a few years before Eppie’s death in 2002, they were not on speaking terms. It is said that they reconciled before Eppie’s death, though the reconciliation is somewhat questionable, considering that Pauline had started suffering from Alzheimer’s disease that same year.
Personal Life
Jeanne (the daughter) has largely kept her personal life to herself, with only occasional references to it while advising people or during interviews. She has never disclosed her husband’s identity. During her 2005 web-radio broadcast, she mentioned that her husband was younger than her. Her date of birth has not been made public. According to a 2002 interview, Phillips and her husband have no children.
Jeanne has mentioned that she is Jewish, but she has not publicly stated anything more than that.
In 2000, Abby’s daughter, Jeanne, was introduced as the co-writer with her mother of the Dear Abby column. Amazingly, in an interview with Larry King on June 25, 2002, Jeanne said she took over the column in 1987.
Apparently, for at least 13 years, people thought they were writing the name and face on the Dear Abby column, but they weren’t. Like Milli Vanilli, the best-selling singers who topped the charts until it was revealed they lip-synched all of their records, Dear Abby was something of a bait-and-switch.
In the same Larry King interview, Jeanne read a tearful farewell to her aunt, which read in part, “I love you. I know it’s time to say goodbye, but the words are impossible to say because you will always live in my heart...your loving niece, Jeanne Phillips, aka, Dear Abby.”
Jeanne mentioned she was offering her tribute, free of charge, to all the papers who had carried her aunt’s column.
Two days later in a page one story in the Chicago Tribune Ann Lander’s daughter, Margo Howard, replied. She said Jeanne “had no relationship with my mother in decades.” Margo added, “This is not about grief. This is about new clients.”
She also said, “Her (Jeanne’s) television appearance, flogging her ‘grief’ at my mother’s death, in addition to her ‘farewell’ column, is beneath contempt.” Margo Howard writes the Dear Prudence advice column
Abby and Jeanne Phillips
“When Mama first started the column, I was about 14 years old,” says Phillips, who is Pauline Phillips’ only daughter. “I would earn my allowance by answering mail from other teen-agers under strict supervision. She’d hand me a dozen letters, I’d go do my bit, and then I’d hand them back for a signature or correction.”
One day, Phillips said, her mother handed her a letter written by a newspaper editor about his daughter who was unhappy, lonely and had a weight problem. “She said, ‘Could you just write her a letter and try to make her feel better?’” Phillips recalls. “So I did.”
“Since the very early 1990s, the majority of the writing has been done by me,” says Phillips, who studied anthropology at the University of Colorado. “In the beginning, when I was executive editor, I was editing her. Since 1990 she has pretty much been editing me.”
www.dearmrsweb.com
When I cancelled the newspaper, this column was one of the things that bothered me most—even more than rancid political editorials and biased “news” accounts. “Dear Abby” today is just propaganda for moral irresponsibility.
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