What: Captain Awkward, aka Jennifer Peepas, answers reader questions on a wide variety of topics. Recent columns include:
- When people want you to do complicated & unethical things, its okay to say no!
- 'Ware the Hovering Hobbyists
- My Fellow White People, Here’s One Simple Trick You Can Do About Racism TODAY!
Crucially, Captain Awkward suggests specific scripts for people, particularly when they are having trouble setting boundaries or saying no. Her suggested statements are straightforward, assertive, and completely rational. They are great.
Representative quote: "We can be glad people are moving in a better direction, it doesn’t mean we have to prove anything to them or get closer to them as a reward (for doing something they should have done all along, i.e. not be Nazis)."
How to get it: New content posts to the Captain Awkward homepage*, and you can also easily lose hours in the archives here.
*This would be a really great time to use your RSS reader. Just saying.
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