The Kid (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452281768/102-5233184-3398506) (the book) is great. I read it a few years ago, and I have to admit that it did change my impression of Dan Savage. He's definitely kinder and gentler than you'd think from reading just the columns. ;)
Yeah, my official opinion of Savage is that he's an irredeemable asshole, but I somehow keep reading his columns, because sometimes he's a funny irredeemable asshole, and occasionally he even has reasonable advice. And I do think he's actually become a bit kinder in gentler even in Savage Love in the last few years.
(But really, what's the fun of an advice column where you agree with the person giving advice? Half the point of reading them is to say, "No, you (#*&$% moron, that's not it at all!")
The book is great, and has some surprisingly thoughtful discussions of adoption, and how gay couples and infertile couples have different attitudes towards it, and how society has different expectations of gay and straight couples.
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Date: 2005-02-18 01:52 pm (UTC)...wait. Dan Savage has a kid? What is this world coming to.
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Date: 2005-02-18 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-02-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-18 11:12 pm (UTC)(But really, what's the fun of an advice column where you agree with the person giving advice? Half the point of reading them is to say, "No, you (#*&$% moron, that's not it at all!")
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Date: 2005-02-18 02:55 pm (UTC)