Dear Abby promotes threesome

[MTM]

This was in Saturday's Dear Abby column.
I was amused by how she used "threesome" in her response to a girl who was asked to the prom by a lesbian friend.
Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?
Or, do I have the mind of a seventh-grader?

THREE MAY BE RIGHT NUMBER FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL PROM

DEAR ABBY: I am a female high school junior with many friends I love and a boyfriend I care for very much. A number of my friends are gay.
One girl, "Belinda," is a year older than I am. She told me a couple of years ago that she is a lesbian. I have done everything I can to help her and support her. Last year, Belinda shared that she loves me more than as a friend. She would like to take me to the prom this year, and I would like to go with her.

Because I am already involved in a relationship with a boy, should I not be Belinda's escort? If I go, how do I tell my parents? -- LOYAL FRIEND IN OHIO

DEAR LOYAL FRIEND: It's time you have another talk with Belinda and explain to her that you like her very much as a friend, but not in the same way that she feels about you. Because you are already involved in a relationship, you and your boyfriend could (possibly) attend the prom with Belinda as a threesome -- but you should not be her "date." If this turns out to be the solution to your problem, I'm sure your parents would have no objection to it.

 

[dooley_womack1]

The old biddy rawks!!

 

[Batman]

The girl's boyfriend needs to send Abby some roses.

 

[KJIM]

The old biddy rawks!!

You do know the daughter is the one writing the column now, right?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Well, that bloodline rawks!!

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

 

[Double J]

Simple - because we're obsessed with sex.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

It doesn't, but in this case it was poor word choice.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

At least she didn't suggest one of them Maynard do chaw sort of things.

 

[JC]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

Why do you have to take a potentially funny thread way to seriously?

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[JC]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

They should probably add a 4th then

 

[Double J]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

"He was night putting. Just putting at night......with the 15-year-old daughter of the dean. And her lesbian friend."

 

[Captain_Kirk]

She could have added that they all could enjoy an orgy of food and drink at the prom.

 

[outofplace]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

Because that is exactly what many people think of when they hear it or read it. That's how language works. You may not like the meaning people take from a given word, but that doesn't change the fact that they will take it that way.

 

[HanSenSE]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

"He was night putting. Just putting at night......with the 15-year-old daughter of the dean. And her lesbian friend."

It could bring new meaning to "hole in one."

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Every single time, he shoots in the rough

 

[TigerVols]

Dear Penthouse. Umm, I mean Abby,

I never thought this would happen to me...

 

[Double Down]

Dan Savage, who purchased the original Dear Abby's desk at auction and writes his Savage Love columns on it for inspiration, approves.

 

[Deeper_Background]

As Bill Clinton once said during a break in the Paula Jones deposition... 'Eatin' aint cheatin!!'